Kisses

Ugh.... It's harder than making a real kiss... All I can say!

Cracking Up

This was a whole a lot of fun. But still I feel like I'm running out of time.
I think I'm going to try some smaller sizes.

Pair of Pears

I tried to stay loose today and work my edges but it seems like I keep going back into it and fussing with it too much.

Maybe a good idea would be to try some 20 stroke paintings?

Orange slices

Today I was really trying to concentrate on edges and simplicity. I Tried here to keep it simple and keep my edges loose.

Values, values, values

I used this great app called Value Viewer  to take a picture of the values of both the still life set up and my painting.

The vantage point from each are a bit different as you can see, but all in all I didn't do such a terrible job at the values.

The cork laying down could stand to be brought up a bit on the top, but I think the problem may be more of a color issue. And of course, drawing...

Corks are hard!

Isn't everything at times though?

I struggled today with this painting, I'll admit. The values were so close! A good lesson though. Ill look back on the setup and the painting tomorrow with fresh eyes and see what I can see then.

If there is anyone who has some ideas/critiques, please leave a comment!

Garlic

I'm trying to figure out how to take better photos of my studies. Most of the time I've been using my iPhone, and taking a picture directly into blogger. This time I took a picture (still with my iPhone) and loaded it into photoshop express and there I was able to crop and adjust the exposure.