Introductory art stuff from a new member

[serehfa]

Hi all,

Started art classes again after many years, and have some reasonably pleasing results. Its a short list, from beginning a few weeks ago until now:

picasaweb.google.com/serehfas/ArtAttempts
edit - you can click the gallery name if this only loads the last image.

Feel free to comment, question, critique. I went in with the request to learn technique as a foundation, so nothing imaginative here yet.

Edit - to do the teacher credit, because he's owed some, this is his site:

www.johnlawryart.com

Comments

[tamouse]

Actually -- heh -- I wasn't referring to the source photo at all. I print my source photos on regular paper all the time, and am happy not to have them too high a quality. It distracts me from what I'm seeing in my mind about the image, and how I want it to be in the painting (watercolour, in my case). I often let the source image drive me too much in fact!

No, what I was talking about is the pictures you took of your drawn/painted art to post online. Those the ones I'm having to always futz with to get them to look like what I made, or at least more accurately resemble what I'm seeing with my naked eye.

[serehfa]

Ah, yes. Lighting is an issue, particularly trying to take a shot square on without coming between it and the light source.