I have been working on this one for a while. I have fixed things and reworked things a couple of times. I could still be trying to fix things, but time to move on to something else. Thanks @robichon for the early tips and critique. This was done on a 24"×36" black canvas concentrating on a fat over lean painting technique. The black canvas presented a challenge since I started with transparent paints. I had to really pay attention to how they were applied until I got the colors built up. I love tigers and will definitely do more in the future.
@lenetg137
Wow ! You did a wonderful job! Not to mention you have gotten technical about it too. I applaud all the amazing art you’re producing plus increasing scale. Oh, and in oil!
Sonia
Hello Sonia @Meme5 , thank you. I feel that if I share a little of what I am learning on my journey, it may help others. I am really liking using oils! My next work will start tomorrow. I will be a Venice Cityscape in oil paint, on which I’ll be focusing on perspective. I can draw perspectives all day long, but never painted one. Gonna give it a try! Stay tuned.
Hi Lenet @lenetg137
This looks great. The eyes and head proportions turned out well. I really like the shadow under the chin, the whiskers and how you handled the texture of the water with a part of the tigers back showing through.
Thank you, Terri @robichon . I appreciate your early tips. I actually had to go back and check several of the proportions and make alterations. Relocated eyes, then made them larger, widened face and readjust jaw alignment. Seems like the more I fixed, the corrections were needed. Part of the process.
I do hope you turn this in for a critique. One of my favorite things to draw/paint from the get go, when I had no idea what I was doing, is wild animals.
I am inspired to keep working on my zebra in oils now.
I have no other words but WOW! So majestic.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful piece of artwork with us Lenet.
Thank you. Teri @TLP. I did submit this one for a critique as well.
Cityscape is in progress. Due to my architectural background, I thought painting the city would be easier. However, using a looser approach is counterintuitive for me. The underpainting is done. Still have a lot of refinement and adjustments to do, but it is started, and layer one is curing.
I’d love to see pictures (if you ever feel in the mood for sharing the progress of your cityscape). I have two cityscape pictures that eachone of my two sons would like me to paint for them. I actually love oil paints (water soluble oil paints) regardless of my lack of experience. It’s been months since the requests, bit since the white rose in oils was a failure , I’ve been procrastinating a study attempt, They both have water, sunsetting light l, and buildings in the distance,
I love this! The movement of the tiger is amazing. And I love the expression - as if he is questioning why are we watching! great reflection and a wonderful piece of art
Lenet. Just happened to see this, I haven't been on here much latley. Suffered a heart attack on May 28 that required a tripple bypass and have been recovering since.
This painting looks absolutely amazing, the colors are so bright and the detail is beautiful, great job thanks for posting. RON
Hello Sonia @Meme5 , here is the transparent, underpainting of the cityscape in progress. This process is a transparent layer, with forms subtracted. Then glazing layer applied. I will reglaze some of the background and darks, then begin adding opaque paints, with highlights last. So I have a few more layers to go.
Thank you so much for sharing your oil painting process/progress. It is very helpful for me to see the way it gets started. I must admit I have to get familiar with the oil paints to sort the transparent ones from the “other” ones. My all time dream is to do a huge oil painting of a cloudscape ( if there’s such word in existence), however I have a couple of cityscapes to do that probably already mentioned before. So I really appreciate your post, which looks beautiful as is!
Hello Sonia @Meme5 , I have learned that understanding when to use warm vs cool colors and transparent vs opaque paints can really affect how your process works, along with many other factors.
A few tips with oils:
Cool colors recede, warm colors come forward.
Mixing warms and cools to make a color neutralizes color and easily makes “mud”.
Mixing transparent with opaque turns transparent paint opaque.
When using transparent paint work light to dark, when using opaque paint work dark to light.
These are very simple guidelines that I try to remember when painting with oils.
Hello Terri @robichon , when I learned about these few simple things, it was like walking into a new art world, but makes such a huge difference when laying down paint. I share these things that help me, because others may be helped as well. Sometimes it is the simple things that people may not express just assuming everyone knows it.
! You did a wonderful job! Not to mention you have gotten technical about it too. I applaud all the amazing art you’re producing plus increasing scale. Oh, and in oil!