Hello, I painted this last week, another painting where I am trying to really look at values. Values are the hardest part of painting for me, I have a "Picture Perfect Viewfinder" that I use but not as often as I should. It is a tool I ordered that has different size squares you can look through with composition lines to set up your paintings but the best thing it offers are red transparent windows you can look through to judge value. It can really tell you where you are off, sometimes I think things look pretty good and when I look through it I see that I have too many colors of the same value. I have been trying to get better photos of my work too but I'm struggling. I have tried so many things, different lights, outside, near windows and lately I am shooting mostly at night with one daylight lamp. I use a tri-pod and timer so I'm not touching the camera , now I'm moving the light around trying to reduce glare. This is oil on a 8 X 10 stretched canvas. You have to do so many things well to be an artist other than the most fun part which of course is playing in the paint. Off to do some of that now. Have a great day!
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Very nice. I really like the brushwork!
Thanks so much Karla, I laid on the paint pretty heavy with a palette knife first and then smoothed things out with a brush across the apples going with the shape.
Barbara, this is very nice. I like the contrasts of the complements. Green and red are the hardest for me to get the values different. The values are so close in black and white. Good job!
Excellent painting Barb, I love it.
The colours are beautiful Barbara! And well done on the sale of your painting - that exhibition looked quite amazing.
Thank you Jo, some artists seem to find dealing with values easy, or so it seems. Painting is difficult but oh so fun. We're lucky
Hey there Terry, Thanks so much.
Hi Liz, I like this one too, so happy you do. Good to have you come by as always.
Beautiful work, Barbara! Great darks and I love the apple highlights.
About photography: I too use a single lamp light source. Try holding a sheet of tracing paper between the light and the painting.. This cuts the glare significantly.
I also have a pretty big angle between the light and painting. Playing with the angle may help. Once you find the best, leave it there.
Hope this helps.
Thanks Dean! Thank you for your hints on shooting my photos too, I will try the tracing paper thing. I'll get it eventually, I hope. lol
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