After drawing the egg carton I decided to paint it. The drawing turned out better but not so sure about the value.
I wasn’t happy with the drawing of the egg carton and how long it was taking so I decided to do a painting of it. This didn’t take near as long and I was a bit more dashing with the brush then usual. For today’s paintings I started using a bristle brush to lay in the beginning drawing and initial values.
I really like the feel of this, I wasn’t going easy on the bristle brush like my other monarch brushes due to their price and it was a nice an fluid way to start a painting. It seemed like a warm up or stretch you do before a focused workout. Getting the juices flowing before starting to get all serious.
Overview
My hierarchy of painting importance
- Drawing
- Value
- Edges
- Composition
- Color
Drawing
How can I improve the drawing
This drawing was much better than the last. Although I know by looking at the inaccuracies as I go farther down that if I had done the entire carton the drawing of the bottom of the carton would have been pretty far off.
Value
How can I improve the values?
I moved my easel today for the plein air painting I did and now I’m getting glare on my paintings… this is super annoying, not only can I not take a good picture but, trying to paint through a glare sucks.
Anyway, the values here are a bit dark but after pulling the values down on the picture everything seemed to match up well. So that means I have a good grasp of all the relative values for this still life.