Week 7...the last day

Gee's I've been freaking myself out today I can tell you!!! I 'finally' decided on a picture I wanted to paint (talk about leaving things until the last minute...the last painting class is tonight!!!) and I 'finally' decided on a style that I wanted to do it in!!!

I started it last night...

this is the photo....

and the style I've decided on is a kind of Van Gogh'ey Impressionism...

..and I'm doing it with a knife!!!!

Aaaaaargh!!!

I've never ever done anything like this before and the feeling of 'not really having full control' is really scarey! But I guess if I want to learn I have to experience new & scarey things! lol I just hope it turns out okay.....!!!

...this is it ....so far....

Week 7...I FINISHED IT!!!!

Woohooo!!! I finally got there...the finish line!....the end!....one finished painting! I'm so excited!

I know there are probably a ton of things I could fix up on it and I'm sure that someone with a lot more experience than me (which is pretty much everyone at this stage) could point out all of the errors that I've made.

But at the moment I can't pick them out myself ...so for now I will leave that until I'm a lot more experienced and a lot more knowledgeable (however many years in the future that actually might be) and when I am at the stage where I can pick my old paintings to pieces all by myself!

What can I say....at this stage 'Ignorance is bliss'!

Hope you like it........

.....now to get started on my 'last painting' for class. Wish me luck...

Week 7 ...and a lot

Aaargh!!! I'm feeling so frustrated with myself!

It took me all day today to get started on finishing my still life painting...I'm still not over this flu fully yet but that wasn't the main reason I procrastinated all day! It was that darn goblet!!! I've been avoiding doing it ever since I started this painting! lol ..and today I knew I had no choice...I had to get in there and do it!

In the end though, I didn't give myself enough 'daylight time' to finish it but at least I've now got something that looks sort of like a metal goblet. I'll have to try and finish it tomorrow.

I've also changed the background & 'table like' surface area a little. I didn't like that straight line between table and background. Don't know if doing what I did helped..but I guess it's not

annoying me as much as it was.

Here it is....so far......

Hopefully I might have a finished painting tomorrow???!!! Fingers crossed!

Now to my other 'problem'....

I'm supposed to have found a picture/photo/painting that I would like to paint as my final painting in class (last lesson this Wednesday) but I 've gone and put so much pressure on myself to try and find something that I think looks 'spectacular' that I haven't been able to find anything at all!! So now I don't know what to do..... here I go again!!! Frustrating the heck out of myself!!! I could really give myself a good kick up the backside some days!

...sigh...

Tell me...is painting stressful for anyone else??..or is it just me???

I'm just hoping that, the more I learn, the more confident I will become, and the less stressed I will be every time I paint.

Please please please let that be true!!!!!!

Week 7...and a bit

Well I haven't been doing much of anything over the past week & a half due to my having caught the Flu and feeling miserable and sorry for myself.

I even had to miss my art class on Wednesday night! :OP I wasn't very impressed at all!

Umph!!!

I didn't dare paint whilst I had the flu just in case I sneezed half way through a brush stroke! eeek!

But, I'm happy to say that I'm feeling a lot better now and as of yesterday started to work on my painting again.

Unfortunately it ended up being a very frustrating day painting wise.... I wasn't happy with my background at all. My teacher had told me I should think about changing it because there were too many primary colours in the painting...fair enough...he also suggested maybe painting in some wall paper as a background... which I thought was an okay idea too. Until I actually did it.... I just couldn't get it right! I even tried lightening it...but nope..it was still rubbish!

Needless to say it got painted over very quickly! lol ..and guess what..I've gone back to blue! Sorry Rene. ;o) But I have made it a lot darker blue..so it doesn't look so 'primary' any more. I really hope it's okay...I realllly don't want to have to change it again. lol :oP

....here are the different versions....

As you can see I've also changed the ground a bit...darkened it....and I've also done a bit more to the leaves. Still got to do something about the shadowing and 'that goblet', but I'm leaving that until last.

Week 6

Well last night we were supposed to have started on our 'final paintings' that are to be of a favourite photo/picture...but seen as how I forgot to take my photo/picture in! :oP ...I continued on with my 'Still Life' instead. Which was a good thing actually, as I was able to get some feedback/suggestions from my teacher, as well as from a couple of the other students in the class. 

In the end it was decided that my 'floating' platter of fruit & vegies needed to be grounded (probably shouldn't listen to the 'Spacey' sounds of ELO's album 'Time' whilst painting...!) 

So I've now changed it to look like it's on a table cloth 'kind of thing' instead. I'm not happy with it yet...but I'll keep working on it. 

Here it is so far.....

Week 5...Last day

Well it's taken my until today to be able to get some more painting done! ..and it's time to go back to art class again so I've run out of time to finish my painting again. Oh well...another one to finish later! lol

Here it is ...so far....