Oil Paint Practice

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A good session this week. Oil paint on canvas from a life model.

A really push this week to pull out the light areas and push back the dark. Overall I’m really happy with the result, even though the face came out allot more masculine than intended.

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Oil Paint Practive

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So refreshing not to have a face as the main focus. Oil on canvas with a life model She chose the pose and I was very happy as A. No face (well not really) and B. I don’t think Ive ever painted a back/behind before. I am very happy with how it came out. It didn’t really look that great until I rendered the couch and pillows around her.

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Oil Painting Practice

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So Its been a couple of months since my last life drawing session. As is often the case with these things it felt like I had forgotten everything while working on this one. Oil paint on canvas with a live model. The addition of a cloth scarf was nice although I struggled to render it in a way to make the hair beneath stand out.

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Oil Painting – Gorrilla

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I fancied a change from people and since my girlfriend likes Gorillas I decided to paint one.

Oil on canvas. This took about 6 hours total to finish. All in all I’m pretty happy and Claudia like it so I’m going to call this one a success. Quite allot harder to paint than people because of the minute detail. I tried to get a bit painterly with this to create fur effect without spending hours trying to make it textured. After many attempts at the yes I’m very happy with the ones I finished with. Capturing an animals soul is possibly harder than a humans.

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here is a Giff of the stages

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Ultimate Warrior – Progression Giff

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I realized I had a set of images through the progression of the ultimate warrior painting.

They are roughly 1 every hour but its not accurate. I essentially just took a snap before going on a break.

I thought it might be fun to make an animated gif that cycles through them so here it is.

Its quite good/interesting to see for me the artist or for anyone else who is vaguely interested so I might try to do more of them for future paintings. I might even time them accurately or video the whole session. who knows.

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Oil Painting Practice

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Had another Life drawing Lesson Thursday. Oils on canvas. A really frustrating session where at the end my favorite part of the image is the section bellow the left armpit. The part I barely touched after the first pass.The face and top arm I must have re-done a dozen times. All good practice though.

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Oil Painting Practice

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Life model, painted in Oils on Canvas.

I really enjoyed this session. Working with the pallet knife a bit more to slap on big lumps of light, I still haven’t got the technique down and probably need a better pallet knife but I’m loving the effect it has.

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