Saturday, October 13, 2007

The first painting..


I was looking at my paintings and thought maybe I should write about them...The first painting is the best as always Smile.. I went and joined a oil painting class here and the first thing the instructor does is puts up a sphere a cone a cylinder and a cube in the class and some lights and tells us.. this is what we will paint.. I was thinking .tch tch...what is there to paint its all geometrical shapes...Confused... what is so fascinating.. I did this earlier.. (long back in school not using paint)
Then he started off he just put the basic shapes a circle a rectangle and a square..and the started the fun !!!..Just using one brush and brown and white colors.. he created a full scale three dimensional sphere which looked like it had been printed on the canvas ...WOW !!! I was so amazed ...how did he do that.. there was nothing but some plain geometry.. it seemed so simple..he just put the brush on the canvas..and here you go a nice painting is ready in a flash..
Then he made us paint the same...starting off with the circle...and so on.. finally after some more instructions and lots brush strokes I finished my first painting !!.. It turned out great.. the simplicity of the painting is what is most attractive about it..just two plain colors which blend in so well ...

2 comments:

Batty Muggle said...

This is my favorite.The shapes and shadows are just right...

Batty Muggle said...

And of course congratulations on finally getting the lazy bum into gear and starting the blog.Also, the template is very elegant ... matches your style.