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Painted my first ever oil painting today, a simple river and some hills. Glad I signed up for some classes, trying to follow stuff on youtube wasn't really working for me. 
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Mustang posted:Painted my first ever oil painting today, a simple river and some hills. Love this, just beautiful. I actually had some success following along with Bob Ross, haha
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Sep 10, 2023 21:59
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oils are great, i think they just look so smooth and buttery 
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Sep 10, 2023 22:07
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 Linocut, black and gold ink on paper 18 x 24 inches
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Sep 11, 2023 15:15
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Painted a pear today. next weekend in class I'm going to learn how to paint a glaze over it.
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Sep 18, 2023 02:22
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Mustang posted:Painted a pear today. next weekend in class I'm going to learn how to paint a glaze over it. That's a nice pear! Nice brush strokes in the pear, as well. Is it oils on paper?
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Sep 18, 2023 21:27
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Thank you! Yeah it's oils on canvas, but from a canvas pad. I cannot believe how much fun I'm having with oil painting, wish I had been exposed to it at a younger age. I've gone through a whole pad of canvas and a whole tube of white paint in the last week, mostly just painting different color variations of the river landscape I posted earlier.
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Sep 18, 2023 21:56
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Mustang posted:Thank you! Yeah it's oils on canvas, but from a canvas pad. Ahh okay! Yeah oil painting is super fun, lots of people are intimidated or scared of it, but they really shouldn't be. I've juust starting playing around with oils again too, after taking a break. I stopped painting because of Covid in 2020 when the studio I was going to closed (along with everything else). Now I'm just messing around with it in my house, using oils on paper and painting over sketches that have been brushed over with this stuff: 
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Sep 18, 2023 23:10
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First cover everything you own in a thin coat of Liquid White
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Sep 18, 2023 23:30
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Painted an apple today.
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Sep 21, 2023 02:13
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More practice.
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Sep 26, 2023 05:17
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Painted some candles.
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Oct 19, 2023 20:13
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Mustang posted:Painted some candles. I really like the way this turned out.
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Oct 19, 2023 20:17
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Mustang posted:Painted some candles. Your values on this is spot on!
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Oct 19, 2023 21:26
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Mustang posted:Painted some candles. That’s neato. ^^ Bisexual ADHD dumbasses unite!
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Oct 20, 2023 13:44
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Thanks everyone! Having a ton of fun getting back into art while I'm unemployed. Taking both an oil painting and a drawing class right now. The drawing class is only 2 months but I'll probably just always keep the oil painting class going, it's taught by a local longtime professional artist. So far my oil painting teacher has only had me paint with 100% oil paint, haven't touched any mediums yet. I should have waited longer to paint the white, the red paint was still wet almost a week later and had to be careful to keep it from blending together. The black line on the tray was also kind of difficult just because I had a hard time keeping it straight for that long. Guess I need to get one of those bridge things.
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Oct 20, 2023 18:10
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Some Wizards fan art for the inktober prompt "Saddle".
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Oct 20, 2023 18:38
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behold! a jar with a face sculpted into it:  a bowl with a chunk of metal jammed into it:  this thing, an unholy combination of wood and ceramics: 
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Oct 20, 2023 21:23
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Empty Sandwich posted:behold! The last one looks like rotten meat. Very cool. Bisexual ADHD dumbasses unite!
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Oct 23, 2023 01:01
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I painted another oil painting but it's quite glossy and hard to photograph because of that... is there a trick to it? I have pretty diffused lighting but maybe I need some specific camera settings...or do people matte varnish their stuff usually?
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Oct 23, 2023 03:51
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Harvey Mantaco posted:I painted another oil painting but it's quite glossy and hard to photograph because of that... is there a trick to it? I have pretty diffused lighting but maybe I need some specific camera settings...or do people matte varnish their stuff usually? Most artists I know and myself varnish oil paint with gloss and yeah its just misery to photograph. Some people wait till exact right time of day to take em outside and photograph, some people set up elaborate diffused lighting. When I was in art school we had folks from the photography department who would photograph for the other mediums a lot. I personally just live with the horror of a tiny bit of light bounce at the top right of every painting photo I put on etsy like a miserable rear end in a top hat.
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Oct 23, 2023 08:33
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silicone thrills posted:Most artists I know and myself varnish oil paint with gloss and yeah its just misery to photograph. Some people wait till exact right time of day to take em outside and photograph, some people set up elaborate diffused lighting. When I was in art school we had folks from the photography department who would photograph for the other mediums a lot. Thanks for the help, I'll have to play around with my setup and lights. In the meanwhile, enjoy a bunch of detail obscuring glare, featuring a bird. 
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Oct 23, 2023 13:32
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TheNamesEllen posted:The last one looks like rotten meat. Very cool. I think this is my aesthetic Harvey Mantaco posted:I painted another oil painting but it's quite glossy and hard to photograph because of that... is there a trick to it? I run into something similar with gloss glazes. I photograph outside in the shadow of a building. overcast days help. you can play with the angle of the camera and painting to minimize it. a friend had a really clever setup where he basically made a floor and ceiling out of a long run of white butcher paper, which diffused the overhead lighting. I've seen someone use a $1 folding plastic basket as a diffuser, too. but even so silicone thrills posted:I personally just live with the horror of a tiny bit of light bounce
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Oct 23, 2023 13:47
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Empty Sandwich posted:a friend had a really clever setup where he basically made a floor and ceiling out of a long run of white butcher paper, which diffused the overhead lighting. Brilliant. Yes. Thank you!
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Oct 23, 2023 15:57
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Yeah the gold standard is bright lights at an acute angle (at least 45 degrees), diffused by diffuser boxes or bounced off a white surface, but any diffuse light at an angle can make do. And if you varnish your paintings take the pictures before you do it.
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Oct 23, 2023 17:04
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Starting new paintings and doing the first half of it: yes, winning, in my lane and thriving Finishing paintings: help I'm being poisoned, bad feelings, I'm stuck in the ditch without AA
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Oct 27, 2023 15:01
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Starting new paintings and doing the first half of it: yes, winning, in my lane and thriving Lol ive gessoed over so many paintings that were at like 90% because i just didnt love them anymore.. Finished a bit of a different painting this week.  Also did a lil print block for the first time in like 5 years. This is just test print one off an ink pad. Lost my brayer somehow so i am waiting on an order from blick for printing supplies. Considering doing some print runs again. 
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Oct 27, 2023 20:06
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silicone thrills posted:Also did a lil print block for the first time in like 5 years. This is just test print one off an ink pad. Lost my brayer somehow so i am waiting on an order from blick for printing supplies. Considering doing some print runs again. The painting is great, but I'm a sucker for stark lino prints 
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Oct 27, 2023 22:55
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Inktober, day 27: Beast I'm very late to inktober and haven't done any of the other prompts. Yet!
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Oct 30, 2023 19:19
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anatomi posted:Inktober, day 27: Beast That's super loving cool. Very Saturn Devouring His Son vibes I've been doing some of the prompts. My health been super bad this month so i'll do 2-3 of them on days when im feeling ok. They're good overall challenges to at least think creatively about how to fulfill some of them.
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Oct 30, 2023 19:26
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Thanks man! That's very kind. I'm sorry to hear about your health. It's cool that you can still squeeze in a few prompts here and there — do you have them here in the thread? I'd love to see 'em.
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Oct 30, 2023 20:15
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anatomi posted:Inktober, day 27: Beast hell yes silicone thrills posted:That's super loving cool. Very Saturn Devouring His Son vibes exactly my thought
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Oct 30, 2023 20:39
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anatomi posted:Thanks man! That's very kind. Here's a couple of the ones that I felt like I kicked rear end at. Usually using a metropolitan fountain pen with birmingham ink "compost" and then a jelly pen for white highlights. paper is strathmore toned so I wouldn't have to think about mid tones as much. Castle prompt:  Wander  fortune  Spiders  Im also treating them as very short one and done style sketchbook prompts so if I gently caress up it is what it is.
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Oct 30, 2023 23:28
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silicone thrills posted:Here's a couple of the ones that I felt like I kicked rear end at. Usually using a metropolitan fountain pen with birmingham ink "compost" and then a jelly pen for white highlights. paper is strathmore toned so I wouldn't have to think about mid tones as much. Love everything about these
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Oct 30, 2023 23:33
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Yeah, those kick rear end!
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Oct 31, 2023 08:34
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Painted another bird. I swear his wings don't look so much like they have wing abs irl I don't understand photos
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Nov 4, 2023 18:19
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A couple great looking birds! Love Silicone Thrill's crow, and Harvey is yours some kind of kingfisher? I painted something "loose and expressive" for the first time. Definitely not my style, but it was fun to do something different. 
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Nov 5, 2023 22:58
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Mustang posted:A couple great looking birds! Love Silicone Thrill's crow, and Harvey is yours some kind of kingfisher? Looks great! And sorry I'm not sure, just a bird I found online. I checked the filename and it said "bird" which was very helpful.
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Nov 5, 2023 23:59
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Also painted some watermelons, didn't go dark enough with the values of the lower parts closer to the bowl. 
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I redrew a scene from Epic Mickey 2 two weeks ago, and I'm still impressed with it. Might share some more stuff if y'all are interested or not.
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