91cm x 61cm acrylic on stretched canvas. This was created from individual pics of the fruit and background and manipulated to form this scene.
Paul
www.paulbennettfineart.com
www.acrylic-artist.com
I like that you used sliced fruit in this piece/. A beatiful piece of art work.
Thank you Yvonne, a fun piece to do.
I need to find someone locally who paints similar to your style and realism to take lessons! I feel my paintings look too much like cartoons.
I don't know where you are but there is a ton of video lessons on youtube, just google acrylic paint lessons and away you go.
That's how I picked up a few pointers for a couple of my paintings, but having to wade through the garbage to find a good instruction video took a bit of time. It's also difficult to figure out which videos will be benefiicial without watching it at least half the way through. The one that I picked up some good pointers on painting rocks and boulders was one that I almost closed because the initial steps looked like the guy was going to paint worse than me. LOL.....BTW, I have pictures of my attempts at painting over here - http://www.artistdaily.com/forums/t/33823.aspx
K-K, I checked out your paintings and I would recommend don't paint from imagination, always have a reference or you will paint as you think it is not how it is. One way to learn is draw the picture from the reference then cover the whole canvas except a small square eg: 3" from a 18" canvas, then just paint that area the same as the reference forgetting the rest of the picture. when you are happy with that section move to the next and do the same etc. The idea is to copy the reference exactly without worrying about the whole picture. Try that.
peebee44: K-K, I checked out your paintings and I would recommend don't paint from imagination, always have a reference or you will paint as you think it is not how it is. One way to learn is draw the picture from the reference then cover the whole canvas except a small square eg: 3" from a 18" canvas, then just paint that area the same as the reference forgetting the rest of the picture. when you are happy with that section move to the next and do the same etc. The idea is to copy the reference exactly without worrying about the whole picture. Try that.
Thanks for the advice. I do seem to constantly fret over the overall picture and not the small details. I've also been using photos, but modify them from what I am looking at, so even with a photo, I'm still using my imagination. With my coworker's plane, I used a photo from the Internet for the background and took a photo of his plane on the ground painted it in the air. I haven't been stressing trying to be exact as a general rule, which is probably contributing to my stuff looking like cartoons. Thanks!
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