tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22307899336782951872011-07-28T11:37:34.253-07:00This blog will show the struggle in the process of creation and progress of the latest painting currently on my easel. This painting is called The Exit.Mariahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04061142619474401294noreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230789933678295187.post-65373321355401757372010-10-08T02:11:00.000-07:002010-10-08T02:11:29.684-07:00

Currently this painting is finished and I have moved forward to a new painting. Please follow the link to follow the creating of Spyridon.

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I consider this one to be completed and have signed it. The first layers of varnish are already on it! Will try to find an appropriate frame after drying. Creating the Exit is just about leaving all what has been brooken behind and start running towards a new colorfull world. If there is no exit from your old world: Just create one yourself! Oil panting on MDF panel 60 * 90 cm. Coated with

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When is a painting finished?? Sometimes.... Did a lot of work last weeks: worked out the hair in much more detail and am quite happy. Painting hair is not still on th level where I would like to be, but persistent I keep on trying to step up each painting. Also tried to make the painting more exciting by adding deep an shallow shades... Will wait with signing for another 4 weeks or so (

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Today I finished the first layer on the hair, worked out well. Think I need 1 more layer to complete... After that I'll start working out the highlights and deep shades in order to finish, will take a few more sessions I suppose. Wish I was a rich man and not so handsome....

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In spite of heavy business took some days of and spent one painting. Started with the second layer of the dress. Also dimmed the color of the baloon, I like striking pink but this color.... Herewith a detail of the dress and the wrinkles of it... Some parts might need a 3rd layer.

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Today I started with repainting the underdrawing of the hair. Because I wasn't sure how to started I only indicated the hair in the original underpainting. Last drawing the hair ended up like a bundle of straw....Hopefully this will help me in creating more realistic hair. Old Hair New Hair Although it looks that the har is almost overengineered I think it is okay for now. I will lose a lot

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Today I finsihed the first layer of the dress, more work then expected.. and some layers to go. However the effect is as expected (even better...). Tomorrow I start detailing out the underpainting of the hair.

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Today I started with coloring the dress using Rembrandt's Ultramarine Blue. A very powerfull but nicely transparant blue. I use a very thin glace with a lot of pigment in there. This shows almost no color on the dark stripes but shows well on the white stripes. Next layer the color will show in full on the darks as well. The white stripes will be uplighted with Titan White using the blue for

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I know I did it myself.... painting so many bricks and floor elements. It is a hard job to paint everything in one color with different tones. Trying to make 1 whole of the painting. Some of the yellowish (Still the grain) is cooled with violet (sand and floor tiles) and highlights are worked out with warmed titan white. The talon (broken stone) is painted with 1 layer of warmed still de grain.

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This week I decided that I have been brave and surprised myself with a daylight easellamp. What a difference that makes painting durin day and night! Compleet new colors on your painting..... Today I have spot glazed the wall with oxide red transparent and worked out all highlights with titan white warmed with still the grain yellow. I am quit happy with the result. The next layer, a very thin

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Today I've finished the first layer on the wall. This layer is the color Still de Grain with highlights in Titan White. It still looks like what it is: a colored underpainting. Although some of the bricks in the wall already start looking like a brick I seriously hope that the next layer will bring me more to reality...

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For those who asked what is the story behind the painting..... When your history is one with all what used to be nice is broken Someday somewhere even you will see a spark of love Put on your nicest dress and start heading for the exit Run for the light and leave the all the broken parts behind If there is no exit you could decide to create one yourself You could draw a new sparkling world,

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Today a good day after a week full of illness (flu). I decide to have a new session on the painting and painted the floor and some scenary like the broken timpaal with the picture of some Greece godness. Next time I'll start to correct some errors in the wall and will make a decision if and if yes what I will place in the arch.

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Finally decided what to use as underground. Just following now the original and make a broken tile floor, partially covered with sand and small rocks..... Also decided that the timbal should look like marmer from the beginning and started to repaint the structure.

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Finally I managed to sit down and to complete the wall on the painting and made a start with the other scenery in front. I have a clear idea now about the structure of the street and will make some fine progress next weeks. In front of the broken timbaal there will be some more stone and rocks. There is some more work to do on the right wall in order to get it straight.

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After a few days of hectic communication training finally got the courage and started with the underpainting for the hair, showing more and more of the concept of the drawing. Will finish the hair this week and maybe the rest of the underpainting (challencing ambition)... Have to do a lot more on the hair (high lights, some more contrast etc.

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Not much to do this Sunday except a short visit to some frends... So picked up the brushes and made an attempt to do a serious par tof the arch. And still looking for a good tutorial on the hair...

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Today I had a few spare hours alone at home. Definitely picked the opportunity to paint the arch once more. I'll give the painting one week to dry and then start with the hair. Already struggling what to place on the foreground. I show some drawings next week. Note that the dark paint of the arch is still wet and will bleach towards the other stones (I hope....)

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In spite of a terrible workload I still manage to find time for painting ! Decided to whipe out most of the Arch and to redraw (still fighting perspective); the first stones will be redrawn as well. I also did work on bricks and painted a temperarily head (some of my family found it frighting to see a headless woman... ) while waiing my bricks to dry... I'm planning to paint long blond hair.

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Still wating till the paint on the left side is dry enough to start drawing the head and hair. So started with painting the right side break-out wall. Stones, stones and more stones for the next weeks... I am happy to see that the concept starts to work. Still strugling with cleaning the board!

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Yep! I have to correct he perspective of my drawing. Using the right gum right now will help definitely.... Definitely improved the view of the drawing. The Perspective brings some dramtic in it as well. Also I decided to paint already a part of the break-out wall. I have to explain why I didn't paint the head yet. One of the most challenging parts of painting figures is to have realistic

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Today has been my regular day off, usually that means: work like hell to keep on pace with the office work left over. Basically I don't mind: having a very good cappucino and good music on the radio my production is 5 x better then in the office. So after 2 hours work I decided that I can enjoy painting for several hours now. My wife is at work (sadly because Friday are mostly quality days...)

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So I am there: started to draw and immediate a beginning with the underpainting. This more or less to see if the color concept I have in my head will work. You have to think in values first...... After drawing and looking at the painting I think I might have a problem with my old friend The Perspectieve. IT AIN'T RIGHT!!! I must have been focussing to much on my raster guidelines.....  Okay,

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Okay, I'm there! I know what I want to paint this time. It will be close to the concept made in PS but a slightly different cut in order to have a better composition. The painting will be a big one this time, width 60 cm and height 90 cm. Techniques that I will use are: Coating a MDF panel with Talens Amsterdam Acrylic, black on the backside and a mixture of Titan White and Black (Yes! That

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After some raw sketches I decide to use Photoshop as electronic scratch path and to workout the concept into some more concrete. Some thinking and trying brought me to this concept picture: Probably I will make a cut out as final. Have to sleep about this....

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For a few days I have been in doubt over the main subject of the painting. However during reading some magazines I noticed a advertisal for some summer clothing. The photo showed a running lady in a width cotton summer dress. I really loved the picture and decided to use this as the pose that I would like to have my subject. Choosing this picture immediate raise some questions: ? Who has the

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After finalizing a painting a serious number of ideas pop-up regarding creating a new painting. Although I usually work on 1 or 2 painting simultaniously ( 1 at home and 1 at course) this process is always painfull. This blog will show you the creative process in creating my current painting, called "The Exit". What to choose.....?  During my last holiday I spend a week in the lovely city of

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