Another forest...

Injured in a forest, sheltering by some rocks...

more studies...

I have another few paintings but I havent quite finished them so I will wait till I have.

Speedy

A quick speedy trying to bring together some of the value key and texture brush learning iv been doing...

Value Keys

I have been trying to get my head around High/mid/low key value ranges and how a photo/reference can be interpreted and simplified into one of these three ranges... its so powerful as without them its hard to contrll all the incredible range of values in a landscape. Too many values can be messy if they dont live in the right heirarchy and this really helps set that up at the start of a painting!

BW Landscape

I have been wanting to get textures into my painting for a very long time, but I always ended up just painting with a simple brush. That has allowed me to get better at just painting, but now, after being very much inspired by this guy: http://maciejkuciara.blogspot.com/I am starting to get back into textures... I even re-made a large portion of my brushes.

Anyway, here is my first BW painting using this more textural approach... I feel like its a bit of a turning point/breakthrough towards where I want to be.

Anders Zorn Study

Here is a study I did of an Anders Zorn Painting... I love his brushstrokes... so good.

Phillipe Faraut Study

This is a study from a web image of a Phillipe Faraut Sculpture. Its not as good practice as a cast study its true, as I am not measuring proportions in 3 dimensions, but its alright for a work practice.... still feel like I learned a lot from it. I will aim to get proportions better in the forst drawing next time... its amazing how far out you can be and not notice. Neck is still out, but im sick of it now :P