VictoriArt aka LoLs Leisure

Thanks rosa! I've got the darker blue line there today ... the problem is bringing the sunset into the water ... maybe I'll give up on the sunset!

I only started this picture in 1977, maybe 30 years later it's time to give up! :D

 

dont cover the whole of the water with orange of your sunset just tap a little few lines of colour to give the illusion of the sunset on the water.
dont give up now your getting there.its looking good

 

Just a word of caution - don't judge colours by what you see on your computer screen. The colours on your paintings will be what they are. Then you take a photograph or a scan - that changes the colours and splits them into pixels. That will distort perhaps badly. You send them off to photobucket and then on to GC. That changes colours and then each of us sees them on our computer screens and they are all adjusted diffently so we all see your colours differently.

I have given up photographing my pastel paintings and putting them on a computer simply because digital images cannot handle the sublety of the original colours - they block and compromise. The advice given by Dag and Rosa regardng composition etc is spot on, but your "colours scream at you" because they have been pixelated and compromised. Only you, the artists can judge the colours of the original.

 

I appreciate that, Hornbeam, thank you. I've said all along the colours are not as they are on the paintings, which are far more subdued. I know I like strong colours and I'm not one for detail, could never be a Keith Fenwick and it's why I can't paint was DAG paints. However, I do like people to give me their opinion, particularly on perspective where I am bad.

You haven't read / answered my PM.

 

Rosa's diagram is excellent, would just like to add, that you should make up your mind which type of sunset you require.

If you want such a large sun effect I would go for grey clouds with the orange sun breaking thro' the gaps. In this way it looks like a completely red sky but when you look at it, it is really mostly grey (warm) but the red looks so much more alive and bright by the contrast. You could have that over the whole sky area.

I assume what you are after though is a clear blue sky with a normal sun effect, which would be quite a small sun area,no biger than rosa indicated.

Do the reflection as in rosa's diagram and I would also add small horizontal red dashes immediately below that area and gradually getting more spaced apart and thicker as it gets nearer to you, and when it gets in the foreground make them more wavy as this is repeating the larger waves that are nearer, and continue it right down to the sand.

Where the sand is wet, include some reflected sun in that as well, you will have to make a careful judgement as to whether the rocks would block the path of the reflections.

There should be an element of reflected sun in all those rocks, but don't overdo it.

 

good advice dag, it was hard to explain some things so found it easier to do a quick sketch to show LoL, do hope she doesnt give up on it and it will come together, its a great picture just minor touches to finish it off.

 

Thank you, my darling friends DAG and rosa. I've taken on board all both of you say but at this point I want to throw the bl**dy painting into the sea!

This canvas is 24" x 18" ... it's probably difficult for you to know what scale I am working to.

I am also working with acrylic with can be difficult due to its drying ability but I have a sprayer handy at all time (not just for Cal) and soak my paints ... I can keep them for days and even weeks soaked and in a plastic baggy. The texture I get with acrylics is fantastic which you can not see by my postings.

I'm trying to be positive here but ....

Thank you, both of you, from the bottom of my heart!

 

Our garden centre friend who came over today now has an art gallery on site. He and his girlfriend were both very impressed :eek: :eek: :eek: with my seascape and some others I showed them.

He asked if I would like to put them in his gallery for sale because they feel they are as good, if not better in some instances that other art around .....

I am speechless (don't say a word, my dearest!).

 

Thats great news LOL - well done and very well deserved I think Hope they put a big price tagh on them for you

 

Well done LoL way to go

 

LoL "the special one" all your art is special to me.............

[ 27. January 2007, 05:58 PM: Message edited by: roders ]

 

I told you to sell them ages ago !! As people would buy them no problem..Well thats it now you will have to paint faster as they may sell quick and you will need to replace them.. :D Well done..

 

I know you did wildflower and maybe I'll have to do as you say ... maybe it was in the cards ... xx

 

:D :D The thing is you must have loads of them and where can you put them all ?? you may as well get the pleasure of painting them take a picture of it finished for yourself then sell them..I have saved all my pictures to disc as they were cluttering the pc up .. :D
you could buy something wonderfull with the money.. :confused: you ought to go out and paint local scenes that would be popular..

 

well done LoL great news, see you put your paintings down and there was no need, lets see mega bucks coming in and this will spur you on to do more as they are very good what you have achieved.so pleased for you.Take a picture of every one you have for your records.Good luck