SnitzerArt.com ~ Classic Oil Paintings & Drawings

I wanted to combine an update and a lesson all in one post here. As you know, I’ve recently began my cast painting and it’s been a thrill. A lot of issues are coming up for me I noticed though, one being I have a hard time concentrating with all that information coming in, and two, I suck at determining color temperature right now.

I’m sure it’s something I’ll gradually develop as I work, but it’s disappointing to put down the paint, lay in a patch next to it correctly, and then see the temperature relationships shift completely. Now I usually have a couple options when I do this. I can either warm or cool down the colors around the area being affected, but then this could drastically cool or warm up something to the point of looking fake, so it’s really a hard, fine balance to work with.

Now notice how I mentioned that COLOR wasn’t important. It was the temperature of the color. This painting so far is far enough from the color of the actual cast that it is a noticeable difference, but the relationships are close enough to pass it off as the original. But besides the temperature relationships being off, I still have edge, value, and drawing issues all over the place at the moment, but they will all be fixed in due time.

Ear Painting Block-in with Screwed up Color Temperatures

This is an issue I’d like to hopefully explain further along in future entries, but it’s an extremely important one that needs to be grasped entirely by any artist working with color. This current progress shot shows how the ear is too cool, almost to the point of being sea blue/green. I had to warmen it up quite a bit just to get it to balance with the background and the temperature relationships in the shadows.

I’ll show my next update in a week when I get back from Arizona to Dallas again from my Thanksgiving break. Have a safe Holidays everyone.