Thanks to school, I developed an appreciation and love for digital painting. I wanted to apply some of the principles I learned in that to painting traditionally. I’ve used acrylics for many years but for some reason haven’t dabbled with oil. I decided that this summer will be the time that I learn how to do that. Now, I had these two paintings in my place that I did a couple of years ago with…misguided…subject matter, to put it gently. AKA I have no idea what I was thinking when I made them and absolutely HATED looking at them (I kept them around because it’s not easy to just erase many hours’ worth of work but after a while I just couldn’t deal with looking at them and HAD to do something about that). So I decided that these would be the perfect pieces to use as jumping off points in my mission to become an oil painter. I whited them out (for the most part—as you can see, I left the bits that I deemed acceptable to work with).
This is what the process looked like, from beginning to end (obviously the last one is the finished product). It started as an abstraction/study but then I wanted to push myself a little more with regards to actually creating an environment that had added depth and generally more things going on.
Now it’s time to get to work on the next piece!
URL: http://alldaypanda.tumblr.com/post/89059931379
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