Day 17 of 4 New Pics a Day!

Three paintings and a drawing of an old beer mug! I'm really getting into painting now, there's a ton of stuff to explore here. Have to severly tone down my chroma though, the dominances in these are all far too towards favoring the high-'brightness' (as opposed to dullness) end of things.

More neutrals would serve to balance out my compositions... I'll explore that next.

61) Path



Started off with using up some very dilute dairylide yellow paint I had leftover for the background. Started using up some other leftover paint, got a fairly uniform vertical background, so I started added some spider branch effects with some other colors, keeping in mind the tones for depth.

A new thing in this one is the ground pumice stone I used on the path. I couldn't find a way to get a photo of this picture without glare from the surrounding ambient light, so the colors are off just slightly - the shadow part of that path there doesn't glow quite so much in reality. And the texture really is noticible, even from a distance. Great for the sort of drybrush effects I have on there.

62)



Used paint from the next painting I'm uploading here, I'm sure you'll recognize some of the colors. Also included here, some of those greys and greens, are remnants of the ground pumice stone I used for texture on the path to the other painting I'm uploading in this set, "Path", found here: http://lbassett.deviantart.com/art/Path-83742184

Not sure what I'll do with it, but it's an interesting effect. Maybe a waterfall... Any suggestions?

63) LostGhost



Another experiment with using up leftover paint here.

Myself, I see an alien sort of figure there, that top right circle the head, leaning, perhaps crawling... what do you see?

64) BeerMug



Quick sketch of a beer mug - I'm getting into figuring out reflections, and how light is seen and distorted through glass.