After some experimentation I have come up with the same "basic" colors that Kathleen uses (Rembrandt Oils) using acrylic paints. It seems the winner is Winsor & Newton Professional Acrylics. The photo below shows Atelier Interactives, Golden Open, Rembrandt Oils, and Winsor & Newton Professional acrylics. I think in person, that the W & N paint swatches are the closest to the Rembrandt paints that Kathleen uses. It is not exact but good enough for mixing. I am going to stick with acrylics right now (because of clean up ease). I need to get my mixing skills down and that is far easier to do using acrylics. Both oils and acrylics perform the same way when mixing. And, because acrylics shift in color after drying this will mean I have to focus on value mixing even closer. The photo below shows the tube for tube match up of W & N and Rembrandt paints.
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Rod Moore and Kathleen Dunphy. Here are two screen prints of two very similar paintings. We can learn from this: I will now list what are the takeaways from these two images, listed by value areas, based upon my opinion:
Rod's painting took about 45 minutes to paint via a video. You can tell that Kathleen's took longer since she added much more detail. Both are wonderful paintings with a different approach. I like Rod's painting very much considering it took him such a short time to paint. His video of how he painted it is awesome. Here is a link to the video.
Kathleen's painting is artist quality where as Rod's is just a smidgen of Bob Ross. But Rod's painting blows away anything that Bob Ross ever did! Rod's painting took just 45 minutes to paint. Think about that for a second. If he had just added 20 more minutes to his painting, in a few key places he would have been competing with a world class artist. Painting a painting a day does give artists that chance to fine tune that craft. Rod's work shows that. Great work by both artists that I someday aspire to approach. Is how you hold the brush dependent on how you want to paint your paintings? Most of the impressionist painters I am watching on the Internet appear to hold the brush from the end. And, in some ways uncomfortable so. Is there logic in the way it is being held? Being able to stand as far away from the painting as is possible is one reason. And it does work. My last painting I reminded myself to step back and paint as far from the painting as was possible. It did seem to help with the illusion. Claude Monet It may force the painter to "not" be able to create fine details? All of the photo realistic painters I am watching hold their brushes like pencils. They are the same distance from the painting as a writer is. Michael James Smith, an English realist holds the brush like a pen/pencil Michael James Smith Vladimir Volegov (A fantastic artist!) sometimes does hold the brush up tighter but I think this is because he sits while he paints. He mostly paints mid-brush or at the end of the brush. I never see any pencil holding here. Vladimir Volegov The take away (I think) from this post is as follows:
I am new at this "painting stuff". Ignore the FNG in the room! As I get older and my eyesight is waning I am finding that lighting is critical for me.
I just received the light below from Amazon ($95) and I think I really like it! It is 5,500k temperature, it has removable lenses (a set of white and yellow lenses are included for temperature control), movable via the tripod, has an iPhone holder for art photos, and a dimmer for the exact correct amount of light. So far so good! If I decide not to keep it I will update this post. It looks stupid as hell in the room but it is a tool. And, this is serious art stuff we are talking about here! My Janesville painting is my favorite painting, and I need to do more paintings "just like that one".
How do I get there? Here are my objectives:
It has really been a month since I posted? Shame on me... I plan on doing a few posts in the next few days. Here is my first one. My painting setup in Reno is an after thought and I was tired of it looking real bad. So, using Kathleen's "Painters Taboret" setup that she uses; that she purchased from Wind River Arts it dawned on me that I could use a poor mans setup. Here it is: Notice the similarities to theirs?
I have two larger, "paper pallet blocks" (18"x 24") arriving on Tuesday and I am excited to add them to the surface. I have not decided if I am going to mount them with tape in a horizontal or vertical format. I plan on painting this evening and trying the setup out. This will lead me to my next post and the topic I am looking forward to sharing, tomorrow. It is a huge post and it "must" be said! |
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