Anecdotes from my art journey and painting tipsI started taking painting seriously in 2017 and have consulted thousands of resources to find what works best for me. Here I share what I have learned.
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Anecdotes from my art journey and painting tipsI started taking painting seriously in 2017 and have consulted thousands of resources to find what works best for me. Here I share what I have learned.
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I recently moved flats which made me go through all my belongings including my art supply collection. I think this inspired me to use some paints I normally don't reach for, namely Anthraquinoid Red (PR177) and Permanent Brown (PBr25)- two beauties by Daniel Smith. Mixing those two with one of my favourite mixing colors- Brown Green (PY129) by Sennelier (the Daniel Smith version of this is green gold)- yields some beautiful browns. Apart from those three colors I also used Ultramarine and Dioxazine purple. As I failed to preserve the whites I added some Buff Titanium (PW6:1) which is not something I usually do (I'd normally use white gouache or gelly rolls for this purpose). Do you have a favourite mixing color? And are there any colors you find very beautiful but don't use very often? Let me know in the comments. :) Some links are Jackson's Art supply affiliate links. If you purchase a product after clicking on these links, I will earn a small commission at no additional cost for you.
The bird I painted is a brown rockchat. Reference: Flickr
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Most often I find the birds I want to paint through browsing unsplash and similar sites for freely available reference photos. When I'm lucky, the photographers include the name of the bird species in the description. When they don't, I usually find out the species by searching the internet (extremely tedious) or by asking people on instagram (invaluably helpful!!).
When I painted this green bird, I mistook it for a hummingbird and browsed all sorts of hummingbird pages, until I found out - thanks to a comment on my instagram post - that this bird is actually a rufous-tailed jacamar which as I learned is a common bird in Trinidad and Tobago. The eighteen currently recognized species of Jacamar (Galbulidae family) are native to Central and South America. They are in fact more closely related to woodpeckers than hummingbirds! Many of them are extremely beautiful and I am sure I'm going to paint more of them. If you're curious, have a look at the reference photo by Carmem Arquelau. Only in hindsight I noticed she actually included the bird species in the description! |
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