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Every so often I will be selecting five new paintings from those posted in the Post Your Paintings category to be featured at the top of the Draw Mix Paint Forum. In addition, the featured paintings will be added to a permanent Draw Mix Paint Gallery.
I will not be asking for permission from the artists who have posted their paintings because it makes things WAY more complicated. However, we want people to be able to post their paintings here even if they do not want to be included in the Draw Mix Paint Gallery.
So — if you do not wish to have your work featured in the DMP Gallery, please let us know by emailing [email protected] before posting your paintings in the Draw Mix Paint Forum.
Thank you!
Also: click here for a simple guide on how to take good photos of your paintings.
I will not be asking for permission from the artists who have posted their paintings because it makes things WAY more complicated. However, we want people to be able to post their paintings here even if they do not want to be included in the Draw Mix Paint Gallery.
So — if you do not wish to have your work featured in the DMP Gallery, please let us know by emailing [email protected] before posting your paintings in the Draw Mix Paint Forum.
Thank you!
Also: click here for a simple guide on how to take good photos of your paintings.
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You guys always want more rules and regulations! Be free!
One or two of your favorite paintings after learning Mark's method.
I think a new post should be started for this.
Hey David! :P
I did 5 acryl paintings,but switched to oil in August 2012 -starting doing portraits .I know I need experiance , time- ....but still some good advice from you would help me a lot.The thing is- each painting is a strugle - I am facing the same problem -repeating mistakes, after mistake.....I know to mix the colors, I see values,- but- to repeat my problem - when I apply the color over the umbra layer........
Regrads Lily
P.S.Sargent, my friend Lynne and little girl- are oil on linen canvas.
Your work is beautiful! I have no idea how in world you painted the music sheets?! Amazing! :-bd
Lily
It is very demanding specially when you have no one to reffer to for some discussion -in my area- not to mention -no one who is doing the same kind of painting method .
When I saw Mark's way of painting I was amazed....and I'll follow his method and your advice in that regard.But I have a question.I have no studio,I work in my home with my husband and kids around ,sometimes changing working places from the dinig room to the livin room- I can't make studio like Mark has.....and what- can I still apply his method ....Regards Lily
You will like this about his method. Once the colors are mixed to match, if you're using regular oils, then when you finally start to paint, the painting goes faster. Check color, daub paint, check color, daub paint, etc. And you only paint each spot of canvas one time. When you have the canvas totally painted, THEN if you want to blend any spot of a daub of paint to its neightbor that is when you are supposed to do it. I personally have a hard, hard time waiting until then, but that is the method. This is also a copy method. You are supposed to have what you want to paint perfectly composed before you begin, not change the composition as you paint. All of your originality is used up before you ever get to the paints. For me that is like tying one hand behind my back, but I'm trying.
I will love to hear how you are doing. You have lots of talent.
I also paint from the photo, but not having a good one( HR )which makes painting much harder. My goal is to achieve the best possible paintings, but I have to go step by step …I painted up to now less than 20 paintings all together( 5-6 watercolors, 5-6 acrylics and 5-6 oil paintings- which I started in August 2012 painting the portrait of my niece).I explored Internet and there I found what I found......I copied Old Master paintings , now I’ll try Mark’s method.
I wish you and your family all the best .
I’ll by mistake posted my paintings as a reply to someone’s post- so don’t be surprised when you see the same post as a new one – on post your paintings. Would like to introduce myself to Marks’ eyes too.
Just to introduce myself. I finished law school , worked few years and after that followed around my husband’s job with two kids .I always loved painting , few years I painted with glass color on the porcelain and in 2010 I decided to start watercolors. Acryl had fast drying time despite mediums, now I do oils and I think I love them most. I use WN and SCHMINCKE oil colors, to accelerate drying time I used Liquin but I think it makes me allergic .Now I use odoreless terpentine and linen oil.In my area there are no water soluble oil colors. I’ll se where I can find them.
Thank you so much and we have to stay in touch.
Lily
Martin
Beautiful portrait. Such an angel, she would look comfortable on the roof of the Sistine Chapel.
Denis
Can anyone help him?
My opinion is that it is now too late to alter the tonal range. I suppose that a weak grey/green glaze would soften the wave tops, more in keeping with the night time value range. But I have no experience in oil glazing. Can any oil glazers' assist?
Mi opinión es que ya es demasiado tarde para cambiar el rango tonal. Supongo que un débil gris / verde vidriado se ablandará las crestas de las olas, más acorde con el rango de valores de la noche. Pero no tengo ninguna experiencia en el acristalamiento de aceite. ¿Puede alguno Glazer petróleo "ayudar?
Denis
Reminds me of the scene at the end of Back to the Future where Doc says to Marty, "Roads, where we're going we don't need roads". And they fly off into the screen.