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27Aug10
Filed under: Exhibitions, latin american art, museum of latin american art, museums |
Tags: art, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Long Beach, Mexican, mexican artist, molaa, muralist, museum of latin american art, Siqueiros, Siqueiros Paisajista, Siqueiros Paisajista/Siqueiros Landscape Painter, Siqueiros:Landscape Painter
Source: http://molaa.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/siqueiros-installation/
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by David R. Darrow
6″ x 6″ (15.2cm x 15.2cm)
Oil on Stretched Canvas
This painting is not framed
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About This Painting
San Felipe Lake sneaks up on you. You turn a corner and Boo! there it is. It’s just a bit southeast of Gilroy proper along Pacheco Pass Rd.
Somewhat humorously, nearby this Gilroy lake is the town of Aromas ? I wonder what connection there is to its next-door neighbor Gilroy being the garlic capitol of the world.
As I rounded the corner, heading south on CA SR-152 one day recently looking for scenes to paint, this came into view, and it was all I could do to pull over on the one, small turn-off and not spill my morning coffee.
This is painted more abstractly than I usually paint since I wanted to capture the airbushy blends in ‘chunks of color’ instead. ?
Source: http://everydaypaintings.blogspot.com/2011/08/san-felipe-lake-gilroy-ca.html
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This painting is available now on eBay, with a 1¢ opening bid.
Today’s painting started out on a panel primed with gesso, then sanded, then painted with a medium gray, latex, flat wall-paint I got from Home Depot.
My first step, above, was to tone the panel with a bit of burnt sienna and ultramarine blue, thinned well with mineral spirits. Next step was to sketch in the proportions of the head. Working on an 8 x 10 panel, I make things a lot easier on myself by cropping my digital photo exactly as I wanted it cropped at exactly 8 x 10 proportions. This allows me to do the sketch paying attention to the shaped of the head as well as the shapes of the negative space around the head. This is painted from the image on the monitor.
Admittedly, I got a little lost right away. I started jumping around trying to “get something right” instead of focusing on connecting values and shapes. Jumping around is always my downfall. Part of the problem is that I do not realize I am doing the jumping around.
And no one was around to stop me.
Eventually, I come to my senses and do the only thing I can do to make the painting better: remove the offending parts. My general proportions were mostly right as far as placing the head on the panel, but I went awry somewhere near the mouth.
As soon as I wiped off the mouth, The Voices stopped.
Just kidding. Now they only sounded muffled. 
I got the bigger shapes dropped back in; a smaller mouth, the orange of the background, the cool of the flesh in light.
Back on track, I worked on balancing the shadow values more with the light values, trying to separate the warm shadows from the cool north light on the brighter side. I also blockiin the hand, which I see as an element of the painting that is necessary for the femininity in the pose, but not important enough that I want to draw attention to it. I intend to keep it impressionistic.
Curl ? 8″ x 10″ oil on panel, by David R. Darrow
The completed painting is a result of refocusing and starting at the top of the forehead and working my way down checking the drawing, comparing shapes, values and hues, adjusting edges and temperatures.
I try not to get discouraged when a painting goes off a bit. I don’t like that I have to spend extra time on it, but it does feel good to whip it back into shape. (This painting is available now on eBay, with a 1¢ opening bid). 
If you have a difficult time with drawing during painting, you may be interested in my Charcoal Drawing for Oil Painters video course which shows how to break down larger shapes into easier “bites,” honing in to detail.
Maybe the way shadows interact with the background or light areas is an elusive challenge to you. I did a series on everything I know about Light and Shadow, called Shadow University.
Maybe it’s just flesh tones that get your brushes in a bunch. What color is Caucasian skin in blue light? What basic color mix do I use? Can I use my tube of “Flesh” color for Ethiopians? (No) You may benefit from my most popular video series “In the Flesh” (Mixing flesh tones)
Maybe you’re just baffled by color mixing… you keep ending up with muddy paintings. I can tell you why, and how to fix that, plus much, much more in my Color Theory for Painters course.
All of these can be watched online as often as you like, and I am offering anyone on my entire mailing list the nearly 30% discount I offered recently to a local art group I demonstrated for, the Santa Clara Art Association. You can take advantage of this temporary discount by following this link for the SCAA.
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Source: http://everydaypaintings.blogspot.com/2011/08/step-by-step-description-of.html
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