Oil painting artistic level up!

Well Rose and I have been doing oil painting classes and it's been great! It was fun to learn how to paint with a real brush and use real paints and get dirty. I felt like a real artist walking around Fremantle with oil paint on my pants (real poser artist haha).

Ok here's the first painting I did, it was a follow what the teacher does and work from a photo sort to deal. When I started painting and following the instructions all my digital painting knowledge I was taught working at Ettamogah suddenly started making sense. I think the reason why I started understanding it more here was there was no undo shortcut. I think the undo option can make you more unsure of your work without it you just got to go with the flow.

Now the second painting I decided to try and jump in and paint up one of my characters. I chose my character Dash since he is so round and bubbly. I suffered a bit that my initial drawing could have been a bit better but I didn't really know that until I started filling the sketch in with the paints. It was interesting thinking of the whole shape and how the light would wrap around Dash. When I was doing this Roseline was painting up a still life of one of her blythe dolls and they have quite cartoony features so I was able to cheat and look over her shoulder and see what she was doing and then apply it to my painting.

So for our last painting I came up with an idea of us making a Cat and a Rabbit painting that we could hang in our house. Also to put a spin on it we would each do the initial sketch for the other person. So this painting is based on a Roseline drawing. I like his fuzzy fur and bright colours. Rose was really happy with what I painted, she said he feels like christmas (I felt that was a pretty high compliment)

Roseline's painting of my drawing looks fantastic as well. Check her blog to see if she has put it up. Roseline has been pretty busy putting together a red bubble store (http://www.redbubble.com/people/roseyland) and she is inspiring me to do something. So I'm adding that to my todo list