/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Just finished my beginning painting class yesterday. I feel like it's pretty fresh on my mind, so I'll rant a little. These were my final assignment. They're not very good and I feel that I might as well post them since one is from life and the other is from a photo.

I prefer painting, but I'm not very good with the pencil drawing aspect. I stick to ink sketching quite a bit.

Just got 21 tubes of paint for 52 dollars at some bullshit sale from the local store.

The advantage to oils is that they dry the same color, for the most part, as opposed to acrylics.

Use a DVD case for a palette, that way you can go plein air without worrying about sacrificing your nice mix or ruining your stuff or wrapping in plastic wrap like a loon. Take it with you wherever.

Use a lot less paint then you think you might need. People tend to use a fuckton of paint while starting. If you need more, you can still achieve a great amount of opacity with just a little extra thinner. It goes a long way.

Don't draw from photos. I hate drawing from photos, but my teacher required we try it for our final. Work from life.

Gamblin's Radiant White is my personal favorite white.

Paint names, for a good part, are named from the metals that are in the paint, or atleast a main ingredient. Don't you go fucking shoving it in your mouth.

If you're going to use Payne's grey, use it as a base for blue, and try to keep it outside of your black to white spectrum when you can.

The best way to achieve a painted "line" is not to draw the line, but to paint the line's color as a block and then paint more blocks on top of it on each side of the line. the exact opposite of what I did for the strings at the bottom of the KPP painting. I worked on it last-minute. Don't work with oil paints at the last minute.