WHY PAINT PEOPLE? MARY WHYTE WRITES(Painting Portraits and Figures in Watercolor : "Having an interest in painting people opens
up an even greater world of  possibilities and rewards. The human face is an endless landscape of shapes ,texture, and nuances of color.

This is a watercolor done on traditional watercolor paper.

It was painted from a photograph.
The painting below was done on  a n IPAD.
 

This sketch was  also done on the Ipad.

I am learning about this skill called painting , rendering, creating.

Mary Whyte

paints real subjects in a real way. I need to take some pictures of attempts I have made  lately to explain what I mean.

 

YESTERDAY THE ART GROUP FOR OTOW  MET in the  art room . We welcomed Vince back and then painted till 12 noon. Here are some of what we  accomplished.

DOLORES painting a palette knife flower market



Margaret painted a beauitful scene.

Vince portrait painting. Welcome back. My contribution was a
palette knife flower market scene . Dolores and I created a similar painting.

Then I came home to paint and produced this syudy

of a DREAMER TOLL PERRY  painting. She works in oil and  I find that my pastel almost produces a similar look that I am really enjoying looking at and working with.

I want to take several paintings  i started out in my traditional way. my boring way.

Stay tuned.

TODAY I EXCITEDLY WORKED ON THIS  painting. I HAD AN idea that i wanted to do. It is like an itch that will not go away. Saturday. I palette knife oil painted the  second painting.

I was  excited to put these paintings into my web page. I bought a new computer so i could

update my WEB PAGE. However, folly that I have entertained this idea..the web site kept kicking me out. After contacting HOMESTEAD WEB SERVICES, I was  directed to download a free update. As I tried to :publish, the program said I would have to pay additional fees because I had  exceeded my pages????? I was on the first page...I had not added anything but paintings. I will call them in the morning. AHHH computers..LOVE UM AND  HATE THEM.

I painted this watercolor around December.I plan to complete it . Colored glass with light

coming in from a low angle is especially beautiful when light cast colors from the glass.

 

I USED MY IPAD PROGRAM TO do this

rendering of a light house in NOVA SCOTIA

Things to be thankful for this morning:
Very numerous thigs but first on my list was that I walked with out pain to get my groceries and  do a few  chores.
I ,also , learned three frinds  are  doing  better in recent medical problems. Still know of several who need prayers.

The above pastel is a montage of  feline faces. This was done on valour paper. i find it is  a  great surface for hair or fur.

Monday and Tuesday I tried to  help students do portriats of children. Some of thier photos presented challenges that  make rendering portraits very tough on them as  well as me to help them.

Photos that have little or no shadow hender getting a likeness regardless of the accurate measuring on may do.

Another roadblock is not using enough color.

 

 

watercolor

 AFTER ATTENDING A WORKSHOP , I TOOK OLD INCOMPLETE painting from the stack of many other incomplete and I do not know what to do with them,,,stack that most artist admit they have...and added images in as  abstract a  I can get.

 

 THESE NEXT PAINTING ARE MORE TRADITIONAL .

 

PASTEL PAINTINGS

 MATTING THESE PAINTINGS HAS  BEEN FUN AS  WELL AS CHALLENGING.  I found that the activity of matting paintings made  me ...really forced  me  to look at what  was it I tried  to capture  or  what was  my focus. Severall of my intructors used  different  words but it  came  down to what  caught  your  eye in the  first place?

blueberry picking

 FRIENDS  and picking blueberries make a nice day. I turned some of the photos into paintings. I do not have them downloaded to this computer yet.

This painting in oil, was from photo taken in Italy. I loved the way these homes  were decorated by flowers .

Painting on location in Florida. the plein aire painters of OCALA . This  done at Stumpknockers using acrylics.