5th

Another masters value study catching up

4th october

more value studies.
think could have made the book with the skull on lighter and added a light patch onn the skull no i look back at it.
its why im doing this, to practice

2nd and 3rd december

more value practice on old masters

Not still life but masters studies

Having a break from still life and concentrating on values in Masters paintings. I will return to still life

November 6th and Update

Hey sorry not posted in a week. Was working on a still life but i think i chose one too hard for my ability

As you can see... im going to keep trying to work on it but prob wont finish it for a while

I have done this still life

Fair from great i know. Think im going to have a couple days where i jst draw what i feel like before returning to these. need a break from doing them

October 25th

couldnt get the texture in the orange

october 20th

defiantly need to work on my wood and cloth...

no idea where that heavy line come from on my table. wasnt there when i save d:S 
may of been a bit too dark with the background and too light with the cloth aswel...ill get there

October 13th

Sorry for late post. anted to try something bit more difficult. took longer than i thought

not sure how i did on this one. so would appreciate a bit of feedback please :)

october 10th

feel this is my better one of the past few days. defiantly need to work on cloth though

October 8th

 

didnt look too bad i guess but some of the apples look deformed and the black shadow on the water prob a bit everywhere; its doesnt have a smooth tone

October 6th

have no idea what happened but its dreadful i know. really hate this. prob redo this at a later date

Catch up

Hey
Just for people who having been following me, the plan was to do one still life and one texture study every day
Recently ive been in hospital and been there for 5 months. I first decided yo catch up on the days i missed over my hospital stay.
This is proving very difficult for me to do and do my personnel projects and practice traditionally. So im going to do a still life study and a texture study every other day, starting a new from 5th October
This is just dso i can have time to get other things done in my life,esspecially with my illness slowing down how my hands work, so i paint alot slower than i used to
Thank you everyone for staying with me

Peace
Menja X

May 7th

 Think i need to work on my shadows more. not going dark enough

September 27th

                                                                                      

While i was doing this one it looked fine. But maybe i shouldve stepped back and made sure it was ok, as now the pots are out of proportion and generally looks bit rubbish. Really strugled with the textures in the bowl aswel.really need to get on texture practise

April 30th

Definatly need to practice rock like surfaces. Prob make the apples edges softer, will note that for next time

My abscence

Hey, sorry for lack of posts. I suffer with MS and had a pretty bad relapse. Ive been in hospital for 5 months. I couldnt use my legs or hands at all so i havent been able to do much artwork.
Wel, im now finally out of hospital and have a hell load to catch up on.
Im going to do my best to try to do 2 still life studies each day. one for a day i missed and one for the current day. so ill eventually catch up with my work sometime in new year.
Thanks for reading, hopefully ill post some work tomorrow :)

April 29th

Still life

i know the wood is far from perfect. just wanted to try concentrate on the actual chilli. was feeling a bit overwhelmed with the amount ofstuff in some of the compositions so wanted to keep todays simple. Will prob revisit

April 28th

Still Life

may have overdone the speculars. Not sure how i managed to get it so high up the canvas either :S
Ill prob re do this one aswel a bit later on

April 27th

Still Life

I try t keep to 2 hours each on these,think i ended up rushing this. so much wrong. Think this may be another one that gets re-done

Study posted asap

April 26th

Still life

Values maybe slightly off. think the flowers come out ok considering i havent painted flowers before...yeah i know pretty bad

study to be posted asap

April 25th

Still life

I know my cloth work is horrible. going to try keep doing ones that include cloth. need to practice it.pleased with how the decanter and glass come out. grapes' value is way off...more practising :)
Going to make sure future ones have some kind of cloth

study upload asap

April 24th

4th Still Life
May edit this one as looking at it now the values are way off, and the bottle shape is wrong

This is it redone. i added a bit of texture using the dual brush. not sure bout the saturation of the lemons. think the table top depth is deffo off  and the top but think that was down to my sketch.

Will post study asap

April 23rd

Third Sill life
Will Post study asap

April 22nd

Second Still life study.

Will post study asap

April 21st

1st Still Life Practice.

 

Had time to Practice a hand aswel :)

I have decided to do a still life and a study each day. So on Monday Ill do a face study, alternating between male and female. One a monday at the end of each month ill do a full figure study
Tuesday -Ill do a hand or foot study
Wednesday-Tree
Thursday _rock
Fri- Meal, glass or water. ill alternate each week
Saturday-Fur, scales or feathers, again alternating

I Have a 12 hour shift at work on Sundays so ill do 2 still lifes each monday and the 2 study pieces :)

Ill aim to do these in the mornings and also do some game art work (sillohettes/designs/characters/creatures/enviroments) in the afternoons :)

Intro

Hey!
This blog is solely going to be me doing still lifes and figure drawing for practice purposes.
I need to tidy up my digital brush work.
The aim for this is; im going to spend 2 hours on a still life everyday and ill prob spend the same amount on figure drawing. I may not do an entire figure (will occasionally) but ill also spend 2 hours practicing just hands or feet or maybe a face etc :)

On top of this, ill spend the rest of my time doing my own work, but the above tasks are main priority. Ill post my additional work on here too ^_^

Right, im off to start Day 1!! Will blog it later

Peace

Jenny "Menja" Hall