lady leaving house wde 10-03

These days I am running a bit late on schedules and it took me a while to finish this painting.

It is difficult to remember how long it took, but in total must have been 4-5 hours in total. this is acrylics on canvas of size 20cms*25cms.

It was a good to finish it finally. There was no umbrella in the reference photo. But I just felt that she needed an umbrella when going out….!

I think the greens just got dark and darker and daker and have taken focus off the lady. But as I said these days I am happy with just completing the projects… Improvement will hapen along….

haybales

I made this acrylics on a canvas sized 20cms*25cms for the wde 12-01. I love the way there is a play of light and shadows in this painting. The haybales were much difficult to do than they looked. I didnt go into much detail and left them just where they looked like haybales….

apples

I painted these for the last wde of 2006. It took me a little more than 2 hours to do this oil on canvas sized 25.5cms*30.5cms. I am happy with the outcome. Now waiting for the paint to dry so that I can run my hand over the painting to feel the texture.

Regards,

Rohit

foggy harbour

Foggy Harbour was painted on 16th dec for wde hosted by JamieWG. This is 15cms*20.5cms, oil on canvas. I was very happy to be able to complete this painting in less than 2hours and am looking forward to take up oils a little seriously now. I now wonder if I should add some clouds since something is amiss in the sky…!

mysterious friend…!

This was one of the images that I had provided for the wde I hosted on 01-Dec. He is a friend of mine and was going for another friend’s marriange when this picture was taken. Everyone at the wde found his look mysterious so I named this painting so…..

This is acrylic on canvas board of size 30.5cms*25cms.

This was my first portrait and I am happy with the result in terms that there is some appreciable continuity in the skin tones. Also the eyes look good. There is though a huge scope for improvement…lol

Once the face was done, I painted the tunic and headgear really quick in a loose style.

I will paint a harbour scene tomorrow…. till then bye-bye…..

R

wde 08-12 eggs on a pan or ameoba

I have come to bangalore for work. I had not carried any of my paints/brushes. But when I found that there was net connection at the flat I couldnt resist joining the wde…. and with some difficuty found a store and picked up a canvas 15cms*20cms, burnt sienna acrylic colour and a brush…. the result….

 

 This weeks wde was hosted by Al and he had posted black and white colour pics and had aksed to add colours as one wished. But I couldnt put colours since the store had small tubes of burnt sienna only… all other colours were either 120ml tubes or only in sets of 12….

Another good thing I found in that store was drying retardents for acrylics. I will try it when I’m back home the coming weekend.

 Rest is good… the weather is wonderful in Bangalore and nice. Love the greenery here…. But also that the place where I’m staying is upmarket….! Wish Delhi was equally greener and had fresher air….

 Rohit

rooster wde 25-11

For the wde of 25-11, I selected to paint the rooster since I wanted to move away from my favourite colourway green/blue.

 Its acrylics on a canvas board of size 20cms*25cms.

Took about 3 hours in total. Surprisingly, I wanted to paint the background in blue…. but then stuck on to a grey… As always, acrylics posed a little trouble. It started drying and I was struggling to get the colours right. The final painting looks nice, though from a distance so that a few flaws of the brush-strokes is not evident. Overall a good experience with colour mixing.

Wonder if I will be able to work further on two paintings that I started earlier.

Regards,

Rohit

Up There….!

This is painting I did today for the weekend drawing event on wetcanvas.com . This is acrylic on sketch paper, size 13.5cms by 24.5cms. It took me about an hour and 15 minutes to do inclusive of the mess created by a tube of white oil paint that was lying with the acrylics. So the white on the boat is in oils and will take atleast 2 days to dry but I call this done….. 

I had planned the composition of the painting to be this….   

but the uncropped version is also not bad….

I will figure out what needs to be done once the oil gets dried.

WIP
I am also working on another image from last weeks wde. It is a harbour scene. I started working with oils. But after the first coat I realised that it is not going to work since it was taking a lot of time[still wet after 5 days] to dry and would get spoiled with the huge amount of dust that keeps coming into our house from god knows where. So I moved to acrylics and below is the canvas after the first coat.

Also posting the reference image…

Just realised that the colours look quite different…. hmmmm…. not my mistake, I was painting from a printout which has taken different tones of the original. This point on, I will keep coming back to the computer to have colours close to original.

Rgds,
Rohit