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This little vamp was actually inspired by a dear friend who’d been requesting this little girl for quite a while now. And what an appropriate time to finish it with Halloween right around the corner! Hope she enjoys it as much as I enjoyed making it.
Check out the new video on how I vectorized our little friend! Every chance I get to work with vectors I try to make a point to remember (but I usually forget) to document the process since its always so much fun to watch it all come together…kinda sucks that you tube automatically disables my audio though…seriously annoying. I had to upload this things twice to get some type of audio in there.
5 x 7 Polychromos and mineral oil on illustration board, fixed with matte fixative
Hmmm. This is what I worked on this afternoon. I wanted to try a piece in this new pencil + oil technique, but with a dark background. I set the cherries up on a purple/plum colored plate and worked from life, in natural light.
Here's what I learned:
The oil over the dark background didn't bleed into the cherries, which is a good thing.
If you're going to do a dark background, save it for when you have time to really get into it, and not for a shorter study, like this.
In theory a dark background can make something colorful pop ~ it can also dull it down. Hard to tell which way its gonna go.
Make sure you can finish the piece before the light changes too dramatically, or else you're going to have problems.
You can do layers of pencil, oil, more pencil, more oil, more pencil, blend with a blending stump, more pencil, then spray fixative, with no bleeding or problems.
Be focused, and not thinking about snacks, or that turkey that was in the yard again, or a nap, or what that weird dream about marrying that guy from the past was all about.
If anyone is super crazy about this I will put it up for sale, gladly. I'm so used to working with a light background, I'm not sure how I feel about this one. I might do another one of the cherries with a white background, not sure. I have other work I have to do tomorrow, and then something else the day after, so not sure how long the cherries will hold up in the frig. I may have to eat them before I get to draw them again.
Now its back to rendering bricks, oh boy!
3 Comments on Cherries - experiment with dark, last added: 7/27/2009
I do like this Paula, and bravo for doing it from life. I'm always reticent to draw from life because, like you say, you have to do it quickly before the light changes!
Your choice of set-up is uncanny because I have an almost identical one of cherries (photo)on a dark background which I intended to draw at some stage. Great minds think alike! I set mine up on a piece of acetate to get the reflections. Your pic is great, I think the colours work really well together. Thanks for the info about using the oil too....must have a go at that.
I use pencils and I've never heard of this technique, I am so amazed that you can use oil with pencils, off to find some oil now!!! Lovely work by the way
I do like this Paula, and bravo for doing it from life. I'm always reticent to draw from life because, like you say, you have to do it quickly before the light changes!
Your choice of set-up is uncanny because I have an almost identical one of cherries (photo)on a dark background which I intended to draw at some stage. Great minds think alike! I set mine up on a piece of acetate to get the reflections. Your pic is great, I think the colours work really well together. Thanks for the info about using the oil too....must have a go at that.
i think its a super painting
I use pencils and I've never heard of this technique, I am so amazed that you can use oil with pencils, off to find some oil now!!! Lovely work by the way