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this #learntopaint assignment was really fun to work on, because i made it up myself.

this lesson was about 'values' in painting, and understanding how levels of grey produce contrast when stuck beside one another. although i intellectually understood that, the actual practice of making it happen with a brush was very different. you *really* begin to understand just how much contrast matters when you start putting whites and blacks side-by-side.

using an limited palette of 9 colour values (off-white to off-black), i challenged myself to repaint this marilyn monroe photograph using a single globby brush, with no alpha blending of any kind.

i chose a chunky brush because it made me focus on the values and ignore the details

this #learntopaint assignment was really fun to work on, because i made it up myself.

this lesson was about 'values' in painting, and understanding how levels of grey produce contrast when stuck beside one another. although i intellectually understood that, the actual practice of making it happen with a brush was very different. you *really* begin to understand just how much contrast matters when you start putting whites and blacks side-by-side.

using an limited palette of 9 colour values (off-white to off-black), i challenged myself to repaint this marilyn monroe photograph using a single globby brush, with no alpha blending of any kind.

i chose a chunky brush because it made me focus on the values and ignore the details

some #learntopaint assignments seem to go better than others.

this time i was learning how to draw contour lines - which involves identifying in a photographic reference where the lines should go.

while some scenes are more obvious than others, there is a surprising degree of deliberate choice and intuitive selection involved.

top right: 'draw this photograph without lifting your pen or looking at your illustration'.

bottom right: find the contouring lines on a photograph of a cliff on the sea

top left: contour lines of a macaw

bottom left: i wanted to have some fun, so i grabbed a frame from the studio #ghibli film 'Only Yesterday' and did my best to represent this complex painting as a series of lines. the house was generally easy - the vegetation was extremely difficult!

#learntopaint exercise 3 involved learning what lines, line contrast and contouring lines are

with my personal perceptual style, these are the easiest to see in objects, and i generally don't find it difficult to produce line-art from looking at an object.

but what surprised me in the lesson was learning that most lines are implied and not actually visible in any object. usually contouring lines are implied by the contrast of two colours (one light, one dark) that produce the *impression* of a line.

that was a real surprise to me, because i tend to look at things as already being composed of elemental lines... rather than being composed of contrasting colours. i tend to.... skip right to the contours, rather than perceive the colour differences.

lesson #2 as i #learntopaint involved exploring different kinds of brushes in PS, from plain old round brushes to texture/pattern brushes

one of the most interesting and difficult parts of the process so far has been dealing with self-criticism... "hey, this one's worse than my last one!"

it's giving me an appreciation of i like or don't like in a painting, and more importantly, what aspects i could change as i work.

moreover, i had to remind myself that the purpose of this lesson was to explore different brush types, and not make a perfect bonsai tree! 😆

for the next few months, i'm going to be learning how to paint digitally.

they are NOT going to be good or even worthy of comment. posting them more for myself, so i can look back in a year and say "okay, here's where i started."

but it is also posted as proof that someone with *zero* painting skills can learn how to paint given enough time, patience and teaching.

i'll be posting each painted sketch with the #learntopaint tag so these can be filtered out easily.

painting #1: a human eye

Lots of magic happening in the studio at @highamhall . Day 3 was about developing individual paintings using techniques I have shared
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#HighamHall #PaintWithMarion #LearnToPaint

Had such an enjoyable and rewarding first full day of my Higham Hall workshop with an enthusiastic and hardworking group. These results from an exercise in layering pattern and colour remind me of Paul Klee's paintings

#PaintWithMarion #HighamHall #LearnToPaint

It's a Monday so that means a new #MondayMotivator on my blog
https://marion.scot/monday-motivator-value-the-learning-not-the-performance/
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#MondayMotivation #ArtQuotes #LearnToPaint #ArtBlogger #ArtBlog

In Japanese folklore, Kitsune are magic foxes that grow more tails as they age! Eventually, when they have nine tails, kitsune turn white.

The fairytale of foxes as gods/magic is found in many cultures.

#mastoArt #Learn #Watercolor #Paint #Fox #LearnToPaint

Today’s still life. Sardines on an enamel dish. Beautiful colours! #art #painting #stilllife #suffolk #paintinglessons #learntopaint #artwork #forsale #freshfish #commissions #forsale #oilpaint

Today’s still life. Sardines on an enamel dish. Beautiful colours! #art #painting #stilllife #suffolk #paintinglessons #learntopaint #artwork #forsale #freshfish #commissions #forsale #oilpaint

RT @Nattosoup@twitter.activitypub.actor
Yesterday's focus was utilizing pink lead for a lineless watercolor style! This timelapse video wraps a bunch of these techniques up!

https://youtu.be/oU3Y9Mmq_eI

#learntopaint #learnart #learnwatercolor #watercolor #watercolorart #watercolorpainting