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PogArt Ti

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The painting of my wife and niece has to be done, no doubt about it  ;) I have dropped claybord experiment just yesterday. Enough is enough - too many minor issues ;) I decided there's no point to continuously keep fixing my brush strokes, just to deliberately stick to claybord surface, which clearly shows it's not working perfectly for oils. Obviously I can make an oil painting over any surface, but that's not what I'm after. I'm after to master my technique and skills, and to make realistic paintings. Claybord is holding me back. I want to process the painting further, instead of making steps back fixing imperfections, that haven't beens caused by me myself,  but by the surface. Here we go. Fresh start  ;) ●Jacksons Homemade Belgian Linen canvas board - extra fine, oil primed, A3 size. ●Michael Harding oils.

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All the best, Pog. That is a lovely looking surface.

PogArt Ti

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Thank you Carol, I hope I won't have any issues any more ;) I did outlines this afternoon, and tempting to do base layer today yet, or maybe tomorrow.., as free hand outlines consuming time, so I need some rest now ;) ● YouTube video ; "Fresh start on canvas"

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Today's my day off, so I had some time to fully focus on the beginning. I can clearly see the difference now, between claybord vs canvas. The brush strokes aren't smearing like crazy any more, I can precisely apply the paint where I want, and enjoy painting process. Years ago I used to do underpainting - Verdaccio was my favourite, and quite weird for others, as many artists (artists?) weren't aware of that technique, and sometimes they were laughing at my posts, thinking I'm being very funny painting greenish faces... Nevertheless, it was past. Now I'm willing to take different approach, and following one of YouTube artists (his name is Scott), I'm painting without any base layer, and trying to achieve the highest level of detail at first go. So the next session will start from already best looking base, and so on. This is totally different to me. I used to paint base layer with broader strokes with bigger brush, and from that point building up the shadows, and details are last to be done... Now, I'm starting up side down. Details go first, straight away, to be improved later. I didn't develope my own technique you see. I'm keep trying things, it's my only way to find my preference...

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Oleh Kapustin

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it would be a cool portrait!!

PogArt Ti

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it would be a cool portrait!!
Oleh Kapustin on 22/12/2022 18:52:42
...If I manage to finish it nicely ;) Thank you very much for keen words Oleh. I hope you'll find a lot of friends in here ;)

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PogArt Ti

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Slowly, slowly but getting there  ;) ● YouTube video ; Progress No.3

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I do believe we all start out following an artist/s we admire, follow their way to learn the basics, and then branch out and improve our own skills. Mistakes are inevitable as we experiment, this is how we learn. Your painting is looking good, and a lot fresher.

PogArt Ti

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Your painting is looking good, and a lot fresher.
Carol Jones on 26/12/2022 06:29:04
Thank you Carol, and you've described perfectly of how we evolving regarding our arts... Couple years ago I believed, well, I was CERTAIN I can not use colours, as I have no feelings to it, never liked it at school, and always been upset when forced to do any homework involving painting! Therefore all my life, whenever I was up to drawing, it was ball pen, or pencil ;) No colours at all, it was banned by myself  ;) Now I'm learning oils!? It's upside down compared to what I believed before ;) Regarding this painting Carol, as far as I remember it's third attempt, lol... Therefore it can look a bit better, than those previous, lol ;) I'm sure - it's the last one ;) Thank you ;)

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I'm carry on, making slow progress, but still going ahead. I'm struggling with everything really. Matching exact colour is a great challenge at the moment, so layering the paint. I'm painting day by day if I can, what means I'm painting wet on wet, as yesterday's work isn't dried 100% - this causing some minor issue of the paint lifting from previous session... My wife's face has not underlayer at all, I attempted straight away with the flesh tone. I bet it takes longer now to build up the effect of the skin I'm after... Therefore I began blocking in the whole face of a niece now, which will answer my question of how crucial the first blocking layer might be. The remaining of the paint I'm spreading around to block in the background, why should I waste it ;) Thanks for watching ;)

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With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

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It's looking promising - it doesn't matter in oils/alkyds/acrylics if you get the colour dead right at the outset - the important thing is the tones: you can zhoosh up the colour later.  That's not really a very reliable technique to pursue, to be honest: but anyway I'm sure you know anyway that if the tones are wrong, the colour won't save us.  

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...but anyway I'm sure you know anyway that if the tones are wrong, the colour won't save us.  
Robert Jones, NAPA on 26/12/2022 18:40:46
As always you're very right Robert ;) I'm fancy one artist running his tutorials on YouTube, it's wadellwebisodes. He's making a base flesh tone, and then he's working with it on the go. So he's constantly altering his colour, shifting tones as he needs it. I've never been trying oil painting like this, but rather blocking in larger areas, and slowly getting "smaller" towards details from those greater patches. He's going straight to work on the shapes, details, which he's making on the go... Mixing brighter or duller tones, values depends of the curves of features he's about to work to... I like it. It's more like drawing with colour pencils, where you picking up the pencil you need at the moment... I bet it requires much more practice to paint like Scott, so I'm not surprised I'm struggling, as my colour mixing is very poor, and on top of that I have to work on the shifting on the go, lol  ;) I guess, I couldn't ask for greater challenge than this ;) Thank you Robert for encouraging! I'm just learning on my mistakes, and I need to practice to get better - this is exactly what I'm doing at the moment ;) Thank you.
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