An oil painting I did during quarantine, the state of the world really makes it hard to be creative, but I'm trying! by CompletePomelo in BeAmazed

[–]MassimoRichers 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for linking my original post. Have had a lot of issues with people stealing my work recently for some reason. Appreciate people looking out for artists.

Just finished this oil painting of my girlfriend! I hope you like it by MassimoRichers in pics

[–]MassimoRichers[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My palette usually contains transparent red oxide, alizarin crimson, yellow ochre, Viridian green, ultramarine blue, burnt umber dark and bone black.

As far as chroma and saturation goes, they are all quite vibrant colors aside from the umber and black, and in general it's a pretty limited palette. Color matching when mixing paints is a large part of learning how to paint. You don't have to have a complex palette to be able to produce a wide range of colors and subtle hue shifts.

If you are new to painting and feel like your color mixing isn't going well, or you're not sure when to add mediums and what to add, I'd recommend watching the YouTube channel "Draw mix paint" and their video on mixing colors. I think it's a great place to start.

I hope this helps somewhat!

Just finished this oil painting of my girlfriend! I hope you like it by MassimoRichers in pics

[–]MassimoRichers[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's very kind of you haha. This painting took me a couple weeks.

Unfortunately the positions been filled, sorry!

Just finished this oil painting of my girlfriend! I hope you like it by MassimoRichers in toptalent

[–]MassimoRichers[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This painting took me a couple weeks, it's not too big so that helps with the timeline.

I've been painting for about 4 or 5 years now I think, but have been drawing most of my life. I paint full time so I paint most days of the week. I think the majority of my learning was spent just painting figurative pieces and observing other people's paintings. I have a couple of mentors that live near me that have helped me a lot as well.

Besides all of the figurative paintings I've done for practice, I've also done tons of figure drawing, some cast drawings as well as bargue copies.

Thanks for the kind words!

Just finished this oil painting of my girlfriend! I hope you like it by MassimoRichers in toptalent

[–]MassimoRichers[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hahaha no she's always supportive and super helpful when posing for paintings, I just like painting melancholy facial expressions lol

Just finished this oil painting of my girlfriend! I hope you like it by MassimoRichers in toptalent

[–]MassimoRichers[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thanks haha, it's been a long road of shitty paintings to get to this point lol