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Watermedia Landscape Painting: Progress for Final Assignment (Week 13)

Topic: Interior

Week 13 update! Painted the topic interior.

Final artwork #2 – embroidery

20cm x 28.2cm

Studies, Color Tests & Thumbnailing

Looked mostly into a combination of Arkhipov and Inness for this topic.

 

Color test (with a different composition)

(got too excited to try out the colors with the final after doing this color test and the Inness study so I headed right for final after this piece…)

 

Inness Study

(studying how the transitions are handled on the trunk and retaining chroma but woops with the many green HAHAHA)

 

Random balance practice (looking into transitional colors – purple/brown)

Reviewed the video on transitional colors and did a super quick practice on my own based on class time’s abstraction practice and view from window

Thumbnails for final / color tests

For the layout of the piece, I liked Arkhipov’s subjects (embroidery/women) and wanted to do something a little similar, so I combined some Arkhipov/embroidery/yangqin poses and embroidery to try to catch the same intimacy in the image.

 

Moodboard/References

Images: Arkhipov, Inness, Yangqin player, Chinese clothes, Cheesecake Factory photo from a trip to US, Embroidy close-up

Past Studies for this piece (quick reference)

Archipov Study #1

Arkhipov Study #2

Reflections so far

Not very happy with how little chroma is retained in the final and also I think I still isolated subjects again… I know some of the persisting problems I have and still accidentally committed them during painting RIP. :’) Need to turn on my brain more during practice and less rushing. I’m so glad I borrowed Inness’ book to study from the school library before circuit breaker.

If time permits, I’ll try to get another piece done for the final (Weather Condition/Tinted) or revisit Landscape/Interior.

(If not, I’ll practice on my own anyway HAHAHA)

does a bird fart

Published

  1. When you use white, don’t just think about painting white directly. Think about it as painting a color. Mix the white and get the tinted colors you need and paint it like oil painting opaque or semi-opaque layers. The white on the red dress lady, jumps out from the red. I will paint pink or birch or peach color. That will work well with red. Some intermediate darkness can be tinted reddish purple.

  2. The green hue in the red will look very sudden without any transition. You may have to find some transitional colors to connect the green with most of the red and browns — like green with tinted purple, green with pink, green with all kinds of browns.