Here is my latest still life (Autumn Still Life #2) painting with its unraveling development.
Autumn Still Life #2
16" x 20"
Oil on canvas
Greetings fellow Steemians!,
As I do realize that it has been quite some time now since I last posted an intensive process revealing blog post on my work, now I thought it would be good time to share my latest painting and discuss its lengthy development.
I admit that this painting took waaaayy longer than planned. I felt that I was completely absorbed in its completion and was dead set on finishing it, so here it goes!
(Here is my setup in real life)
Using some standard craft paper, as usual I began with an initial block in drawing with charcoal in which eventually would be transferred onto the painting surface and sealed with ink.
Now that I sealed in the transfer drawing with ink on the blank white canvas surface, I then started to mass in the shadows with thinned burnt umber.
Using mixtures of venetian red, ultramarine blue and titanium white, I then mixed several value strings ranging from the red to blue, and then mixing increasing piles of lighter value each from those separate piles. I used these strings to lay in the initial pass of the background.
I then proceeded the same way towards the ground plane and foreground.
I found laying in the pumpkin to be especially difficult. Not only was I simultaneously refining the drawing, but I also was attempting to accurately capture its chroma. This object I found to have taken up most of the time, not necessarily because of its size in relation to the rest of the picture.
The onion and the corn in the background I decided to work on next. Logically, I chose to save refining the corn til the end of the painting.
The second onion behind the bowl and the bowl itself was next.
Now going back to the pumpkin, progressively from right to left I then started the second pass. Some sections of the painting were particularly “thirsty” so some sections were painted even a third time before moving on. Once sections “decided” to refrain from sinking in, I then could accurately judge colors and values adjacent to what was previously painted.
Now that I am near the end of the painting, I then finished up the foreground’s edges and decided to rework the cast shadows.
..aaannd it's finished!
Please feel free to let me know what you think?
Thanks for reading Everyone!
-James Hansen
I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin. @jameszenartist following and upvoted
@henrysblog Thank you! I'm glad you liked it :)
great artwork my friend. Please continue posting a valuable like this and I definitely see you being successful on this community in the near future. Great post
Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it :) I can assure you that there will be plenty more where this came from.
Wonderful step-by-step presentation of your painting proces. And painting looks just as photo, but better.
Thank you :)
Interesting all the steps that must be followed to get a job so well achieved, especially the details of the bowl that looks very real. Congratulations!
Thank you, I really appreciate that :)
Good painting and the manufacturing process require more patience
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