oil painting

These sketches are all excellent rosa!

Can't see any guide lines, do you just draw straight out, or are you rubbing the guide lines out?

 

Just seen Daisy, Rosa. Must have missed her last night, as I did see your last one of the night - thought you weren't going to do her last night! She looks great - and as everyone can see from looking at the original photo in the thread about our dogs, you've got her just right!! :D

I'll print it off for M-in-law - she'll love it!

 

I could be wrong, DAG - but it looks to me that Rosa just draws without guidelines. She has a great natural talent for drawing with a sure and strong line that makes her pictures so fresh and vibrant. I can't do that at all. My drawing is hesitant and laboured and that is why I use fuzzy pastel instead of sharp pen or pencil. My favourites are the flower and horse ones.

 

rosa, another hidden talent! I think the one of Rosa looking up is great, very typical cavalier, you've caught that sweet expression really well. I love the flowers too. I've always liked black and white sketches

 

Yes I agree Hornbeam, never known anybody to draw without guide lines, I couldn't do it, I suppose Rolf Harris comes to mind!

In my ink illustrations, I draw everything in pencil guide lines using ruler and compasses and then just work over it free hand in ink. So you could say I cheated! :D

I have suggested to rosa that she should try using charcoal or pastel as an interesting alternative to pencil.

 

I like the horse ones best..not because i supplied the photos for rosa ..but because i could easily recognise them as the horses in my back field..they are cobs rosa not shire horses.. :D

 

I wouldn't say that you had "cheated" DAG. Use whatever tools you need. Most of the old masters used rulers, compasses and squared paper and canvases to lay out, draw, enlarge and compose their works. Canaletto used a camera obscura to capture the acccuracy of his buildings for his views of Venice and London. Then he traced the projected outlines. Degas certainly used photographs of his women getting in and out of the bath because no one could hold those poses for more than a second.

 

Yes a lot of artists used to use the camera obscura but that was cheating as well! :D :D

Seriously, more a matter of common sense really than cheating, but I think that some aspects of drawing and painting are not as difficult as some people imagine, and some cynics would probably say that it was cheating.

Which all goes to show how gifted rosa is to be able to do that!

 

Canaletto was painting realistic pictures before the invention of photography. Such paintings were intended to show cityscapes accurately. So he was entitled to use the camera obscura to get things right. Before that, artists used large screens with gridworks of lines. Doubt if anyone could do it accurately with the naked eye alone. It's one thing to copy from a two dimensional photograph and something completely different to draw three dimensional objects and scenes and turn them into two dimensional ones. Nowadays, we don't need to draw scenes accurately (unless we want to)because the camera can do it for us. So we try to capture how we feel about something and try to convey that atmosphere and emotion to the viewer.

 

well what can i say just thank you somuch for the wonderful compliments everyone.
I draw free-hand, I cant believe its come to me after 20 years.
I watch these painting programmes and they always get you to measure line and pin point the centre and i have never done this, I guess i would be to impatient to do all that and i you have said it is a natural talent, drew from when i was 9 years old.

Dend did daisy last night and another 2 pleased you like her.

 

sorry wildflower they look like shire horses should of known with the colour of them just aswell i didnt write it on the paper mind iff i had done that would of copied another for you

 

Its okay rosa no offence meant..Havent you done any today ??

 

no wildflower done none at the moment been out at garage with my friend,shopping and since i came back didnt feel too good, freezing cold, cough and generally run down like flu symptons.
I edited that and put cob for you