atomicthumbs posted:

pretty happy with my first and second relief prints ever, respectively


Pursuit (1978) Redux by Devin Wilson, on Flickr


Uncontained Turbine Disc Failure by Devin Wilson, on Flickr

(first one is a woodcut, second one's a linocut)

Saddamnit posted:

Some paintings I've finished in the last few months:









The first three are in acrylic. The last one is my first attempt at oils.

snucks posted:

This is to gaze into the mouth of madness.

First ever oil painting. It was a good learning exercise, gonna try to set up a shadowbox, decent lighting, and focus more on actually comparing colors/dimensions next time to see where I can get. I let this thing dry for a month and give it a final oil coat, right?

a hole-y ghost posted:

What is brown pink suited for? I've never used it

Neon Noodle posted:

Painted this in gouache and acrylic on illustration board:

Skoora posted:

Neon Noodle posted:

Nice Krampus tho.

Neon Noodle posted:

Hi it’s me again your gouache friend. Here are the colors I use fwiw:

Cool red: Quinacridone magenta or Alizarin crimson
Warm red: Cadmium red deep
Cool yellow: lemon yellow
Warm yellow: cadmium yellow light
Cool blue: Phthalo blue or cerulean blue
Warm blue: Ultramarine
Black
White
Burnt sienna
Burnt umber

Cadmium yellow and red make the most orangey orange. Rich purple from ultramarine and quin. magenta/alizarin. Look up Stephen Quiller’s books on water media and color mixing and you’ll learn almost everything you need to know about mixing the hue you want. In watercolors I also have some secondary colors like sap green and cadmium orange and quin. violet, but watercolor and gouache have different properties so getting an intense watercolor purple requires a dedicated paint in my experience.

Franchescanado posted:

Acrylic on 16" × 20" canvas

Zoben posted:

Thanks! Oddly enough though, I'm kind of in the "realism is boring" camp these days, as I did realism a lot when I was 18-24 and that was a long time ago so I've developed my style into something that's more interesting to me. Nothing wrong with people doing realistic art, as you have to utilize a very advanced level of technique and skill, but I like to see brushstrokes and more stylistic flourishes instead of something that looks just like a photo.

That being said, I think that most artists should learn solid and realistic techniques first before delving into stylistic approaches. When I was a teacher, I was always annoyed by students who were so influenced by anime and made all of their drawings in a cute anime style, it was super loving annoying. An exercise where they were supposed to reproduce Da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man" with graphite as well as they could (the curriculum was pretty sucky and I had to re-write a lot of it in my own time, yay) resulted in a lot of super kawaii huge anime eyes and ridiculous tiny noses and mouths. I tried to impart to them that while I have a personal distaste for anime/manga, the best artists in that genre (and any genre) learned how to do life drawing and studied anatomy before they moved on to stylization. Then I killed them all with a shotgun lmao

Zoben posted:

This fuckin' thing is done

que sera sera posted:

pliers work every time in my experience