Saturday, August 18, 2012

Growing Pains

This hurts to much to post....

Watercolor on paper, 5 x 8 inches.

It's awful.  You can think what you want about it, but I think it's terrible.  The proportions are bad, quality of the painting is poor, and When I see it all I see are my repeated attempts to 'fix' it.

The problem was that hands are hard.  And as it started to go down hill instead of looking at my hand, which was RIGHT THERE to use as reference, I just kept trying to go off my my head.   I don't know why I do that, but it seems to be a pattern, when things start going bad I turn inward for the solutions.  Sometimes that works out, but not in the case of hands.  I just don't have the anatomical knowledge to do that...  and so with a grimace on my face I show you the first thing in this book that I would consider a failure.  I promised myself that the next day I would try this again, and turn my failure into a success!  

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