I am not used to oil painting. There are a lot of things I am frustrated with regarding this painting. First, I transferred the drawing kind of low and it's hard to paint the bottom of the picture. Second, when painting my outline, I inadvertently erased some lines because I'm not used to painting from an easel. So I feel the painting is much wonkier than my drawing was. You can really see this with the box. In the drawing the proportions weren't so bad, but the painting not so much. I am really struggling with using large brushes to paint. I'm used to painting with smaller brushes, and I'm not used to oil painting at all, so all of this feels incredibly clumsy to me.
I feel all I do is complain about my mistakes, but I have to remember that mistakes are what will help me learn. At least I know what not to do next time.
I'm reminding myself that this is a learning process and that the resulting painting isn't really the point.
Some things I've learned so far:
-a good drawing is the most important aspect of a good painting.
-there is no way to replicate the infinite variety of values in nature. Simplify. Use fewer values--even just 2 or 3. The result tricks the eye and makes us think there are more values painted than there are.
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