Girls and Eggs

Painting Assignment 1 - Gray to Colour and Value

Man, he changed it up on us again. At the end he was like there should still be value but flat no blending.... No it said flat application, depth shown in solids. GAH whatever, the first one is different from the other two because I had originally composed as noted in my thumbnails she would be off centre, but I seemed to have miscalculated. I just redrew each scene instead of using a transfer type idea with one copy of the final layout. Either way, I was very happy with teh trees in the background on the lft hand side. Felt so much going on, and the contrast levels with the mid tones neatly in the back.

Value version, I like the layout the best in this version, the proportions work well and the fluidity is nice. Felt like you were stealing a moment of watching the girl statue dance under her spell releasing moonlight

I chose a pthalo blue to emote the sad, gloomy, desperate feel of the dance. A beauteous soul entrapped in a statue, only free to dance her dreams awake under the pale cascades of night's grace. The proportions got funny but the application of paint made the image so much more impactful than the first two. This has much more depth and contract that makes your eyes get dragged all over to understand it all.

Thumbnails, top was a Hobbit house in the Shire from Lord of the Rings.
After is a bunch of exterior gardenesque scenes save for the lsat one where it was a wooded forest.

Tonal study of the image for value

 Seconds Painting Assignment: Rendering an Sphere Form

I had originally wanted to do an egg but during painting the shape was more beautiful as a sphere. So I transformed it. Same ideas applied to the shape as studied in the thumbnails. Combining the first two to achieve the final lighting arrangment.

Unfortunately when I was taking the tape off the original, it had ripped part of the painting. From far away its barely noticeable but it does make you sad when you see the gruesome little tear :(

The shadow is a bit funny but I think it was a rather successful ball. I took me a while to understand how to create the appearance of it being a downcast view with the light above and angled on it.  But I like it, and found the two hours I took to this quite enjoyable!