My Goose is Cooked

I decided to do a quick study on the differences among form, color, and hue.  Can we, as a viewer, see the differences, or the similarities, if a form has a color that is distinctly not a natural color.  

In this picture, the goose has more intense color than the background,  making it stand out from the background.  Also, the background goes from less intense to more intense as we move from top to bottom, making the bottom seem much closer.  

The goose itself has proper form of a goose, but the colors are anything but goose-like.  our brain tells us its a goose and to not worry about the odd colors.  I'll bet than when you look at it your brain even fills in a bit of the wing shape on the goose.  

Well, like I said this was just a fun exercise to do.   I hope you like it!  Oh, and I almost forgot.  There is a youtube video to go along with it.  

Pictured Rocks National lakeshore

Here is a little painting I did over the weekend.  It Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.  I've been there many many times and it is truly a beautiful place to be.    I painted a picture of the lakeshore a few years ago and always wanted to do another one, but never got around to if for some reason.  Well, last night, I finally did it.  I make myself sit down and paint it again.    Of course, I had to make a video to go along with it.

I had a lot of fun painting it, I hope you enjoy viewing it.  and if you are so inclined, paint along with me.  

Catching Up

I haven't forgotten about all you avid Dabfly Arts readers.  I have been busy.  In the past week, I've worked overtime, held a garage sale, been across town about 14, flown to the moon and visited the rings of Saturn.  Let's just say I've been a bit busy.  Well, no matter, I'm back and putting up the pictures I should have been putting up all along.

The first painting is of course some apples still on a tree.  They must be getting ready to pick they are slowly turning red.  The second a Scrub Jay which we have in the western states.    They are actually really nice birds, not like those nasty Blue Jays.  Finally a simple painting of a Kingfisher.  Each of these now comes with a video showing how I made it. (Picture on left, video on right)  Take a look to see how I do it.  Thanks for the view.

Practice Stellar Jays

Just putting in a little practice last night.  These two were painted on cheap paper.

I sketched them both to look alike, then set aobut painting them in slightly different ways.  The end result is drastically different birds in the end.  I'm not sure if I like either of them, but I don't really dislike either.  Tonight, probably more birds.

European Robin

A robin in winter.  I will admit that this guy doesn't display all the personality of some of my other birds, but he is cute anyway.  I was painting from a picture that had been taken in winter.  I can tell from the snow on the little stick the bird is on, but I couldn't make out what was in the background.  So I tried to fill it with cool colors.  I wanted to leave them a little light so as to not take away from the bird, but just give an indication of temperature.  Now that you know its cold in the picture, I bet you can really see it.

I made a video to go along with this so you can see how I did it.  Interested parties can follow this link.

I hope you enjoy this little bird and I hope you enjoy the video.   You keep looking and watching, and Ill keep painting and posting.