I'm not experienced at painting, at all. I'm more of a drawer, so these are some practice paintings to get myself closer to where I wanna be as an artist. I'd love any input and/or advice. rettyplease: these are acrylic on bristol paper
they look great and colorful... i recommended for a more deliberate approach that you opt to paint the white parts of your work instead of leaving the color of the paper... second, i think you ought to be mixing your acrylic with medium. that is acrylic gel medium, or matte medium or gloss medium. this will give the paint a more "painty" consistency and ultimately it will be easier to achieve value changes using medium instead of water. last, i think you chose bold colors and have a swift execution. this is very good for expressing how you are feeling. youre art shows emotional depth. keep it up
thank you so much everyone the white parts of the paper? like you mean the very edges? cuz i brushed the papers with a yellow wash first. the color of the paper is on the very top right of the first picture. i think the camera i used is just making the colors look more of a cold temperature than what they are in reality. idk and thanks a ton for the advice, i'm gonna invest in a medium soon. im gonna invest in more colors too cuz the paint i have is just a starter kit of primary colors haha. thank you once again
primary colors mix into other other colors remember? but be careful of the quality of the paint. meaning, if it's a cheapo quality paint, when extended with poor quality pigments, the color not be what you want. Also, what are you going for? folksy primitive? Not meaning to reduce your art to a reductionist label... when I look at it I'm like, what's going on & why are you trying to hold my attention... crude primitive holds my attention if it has a good message... I'm painting in acrylic right now & not having any problems w/ just using water. are these paintings on a stretched canvas? O wait I just read that they are on bristol paper. Okay.... get a good board and tape those suckers down w/ that blue painters tape. This'll help ya keep the paper from warping when it gets wet. Also be careful about painting too thick on paper... paint will flake off.
its not that there should be any "problem" working with only water... but paint doesn't necessarily come out of the tube with the desired consistency. water may "water it down" and make it runny, but medium wont do that while still being able to achieve a transparent effect. @boguskyle: yes i see that you applied a light wash first and then thicker paint. nothing wrong with that. however, do you see how the layer of wash. the "color shapes" of light yellow in the first painting lack the emphasis of the paint applied with a "mark making" technique. those marks have directional meaning, and expressive quality that the wash lacks. you could use the same color again making marks over the areas you left as a wash, using white as a color softener, and maybe achieve an edge between color shapes that looks more equal and less like one was applied over another.
so i should work a lil on an actual style? or at least have a more in depth style? i agree with you. thx and yeah the papers did come out a lil wrinkley. :/ mainly from the wash took me a few reads to understand what you're saying but now i get it. interesting.. but why would i even put a wash down? maybe i can put more markings in the wash like near the top right of the first pic, how it has those thicker lines. ?
its really up to you, man... i guess i'm talking about more of an under-painting to block in the basic forms... nothing wrong with a wash just being a wash. it contrasts a lot with the other colors and techniques you used.
