Friday, October 29, 2010

Fall Term Painting Class... man I suck...

Well, I've started a painting class and man... I have a heck of a lot to learn.

One of the first things we worked on was a 'non representational' painting based on some thumbnail paintings we did. Here's the thumbnail paintings:



Then we did some monochrome in class paintings:




Then we took one of the non representational thumbnails and made it big. erm - mine didn't end up at all like my thumbnail. Grotesque, yes, but it had me laughing by the end of it.



Here's one I started and is still in progress - as 'I'm so frustrated with homework, I'm going to paint the kitty instead'.



And here's an inclass still life we worked on. Not 100% pleased with it, but it's all a learning experience.



Finished triptych - 3 closeups of an object.



Master's copy. Struggled with this alot - never did get the color right and the detail of the woodgrain didn't turn out very well.




Finshed final two panels. Got really cartoon like. The one with cat is acrylic, the one with eyes is inktense pencils.