New still life

Mio · May 2014

Re-using a reference photo, but highly cropped. The picture on the top is blurrier than it looks. Made for tricky painting, but I think I got there in the end.

dencal · May 2014

Mio

Splendid work. Size (11x30?) A very faithful rendering, values and perspective perfect.
Well done!

Denis

dencal · May 2014

There is a whole school of banal realism...

Second only to the Society of Curmudgeons.

Denis

Junebug · May 2014

Kingston said:
There is a whole school of banal realism...

That took me on a stream of links and articles about the subject...Kitchen Sink Art and Ashcan art. Interesting.

Mio · June 2014

This is an actual scene from a more rural house. I know it is a bit boring, but that is the point. I prefer less narrative over more in describing my own paintings

Mark_Carder · June 2014

I love it!!! Everything about it! :-)

Mio · June 2014

Thanks kindly for the high praise!

Mio · September 2014

Here is the painting, properly photographed. The details are much clearer and you can see how I scratched in some texture on the coffee grinder base.

Melissa · September 2014

Turned out great.

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Mio · September 2014

Hey thanks. Colour can take all the glory sometimes, but it isn't always needed.

Rtaeger · September 2014

Your painting of the wood is very good (as is every thing else).

Mio · October 2014

Thanks a lot. Wood has a surprising amount of diff colours in it - quite a lot of qork to notice them, then paint them!

dencal · October 2014

Mio

So that's what I'm missing. Qork. Where's that catalog?

Denis

Ron · October 2015

Terrific work Mio!

pattyrae · September 2016

Wow! Just wow! Is this painted from life? I just purchased the Geneva paint. I didn't realize I would be having to learn how to use it. I like it alot. It is so fluid.

Mio · September 2016

Thanks - no, painted from a photo only.

I have not used the Geneva paint. The last I looked they did not ship to the EU and I have been on a break from painting for four months and have not looked again. The paint I use dries to the touch overnight and gets very tacky at the end of a painting session.

JeffAllen · February 2017

When you are painting a shiny object like that tea kettle that has all those very distinct shapes, do you draw the shapes with pencil or are you just drawing the outside perimeter of the kettle and painting the shapes of color comprising the reflection free hand?

Mio · February 2017

I draw draw contour at each major change of colour and value. Otherwise, I get lost very quickly.

dencal · February 2017

Jeff and Mio

A clean edge between two objects or object and background gets a solid line.
An edge between two related values or value and shadow shape gets a dashed line.
A fading edge or lost edge gets a dotted line.
A blended edge gets a row of open circles.
A gradient area gets a row of parallel arrows.

These simple line symbols help me read a complex drawing.

Denis

NanaBean · February 2017

Absolutely gorgeous, I am dumbfounded.

And - Thanks for the drawing tips above, @dencal

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