3-10-2020
I chose to paint two pairs of glasses, one red the other blue, and some gold foil in the background. At the beginning when I was doing the first charcoal sketch, it seemed much more simple to me. There was a lot of detail so I zoomed in my composition to simplify it. Sketching was easy until it came to the Brunaille underpainting, which was much more difficult. Figuring out the values of the sunglasses was not as difficult as getting the texture of the foil. Whenever I try to paint the foil it doesn’t look like foil, then I get lost of where I am and what I’m painting since the background is so abstract. Once I get lost I get frustrated, then give up on trying to make it exactly as I see it, then I eventually get in a slight rhythm and find myself trying to be a perfectionist again which starts the cycle all over again. My point is the foil is hard to paint if you’re a perfectionist which I tend to be. I’m slightly regretting choosing to paint the foil but if you take a step back you can start to see the foil texture which is what really matters. Hopefully, once I add in the highlights, I can really nail down that foil texture. I still need to work on the dark values and I may be able to finish the highlights by the end of the week. Right now I’m happy with the big foil shape in the left since it adds some emphasis but I still need to work on the foil texture that comes through the glasses and that is under the glasses.
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Hanna NgaiHi, I'm a senior at Maggie Walker in Art 5 and I'm an installation sculpture artist that turns plastic bags into art. Archives
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