As a child, I used to sketch and paint a lot. but owing to a lot of factors and also due to my own disinterest in the first two years in college, it took a backseat. Being the last summer when I am this free, I thought this was the perfect time to start afresh (or restart afresh). Good painting/sketching requires keen observation of the world around you. The problem I used to face always was that I used to start off well, but then used to get bored in the middle, resulting in non - real (relative to the object being sketched/painted) and unsatisfactory stuff. So I decided to ape some already existing paintings, to get a hold of how a real landscape/object/person is represented on paper using colours and pencil. So I picked up a book and started copying! :P
All the paintings below have been done with poster colours, which is an opaque medium and with hindsight, water colours would have been much better.
One:
Landscape in only one colour - brown. I feel the clouds and islands have turned out nicely, but the water on the horizon is too dark and that closest to the viewer is a bit light. Perhaps a principle of colorimetry could set things right! This one's the simplest and probably the most beautiful of the three.
Two:
Apart from the black in the huts, I've used only two colours - brown and green in painting this landscape. Owing to the bad picture quality, the sky appears absolutely bland; it is (slightly) better in the original. Many things could have been better, especially the nearer mountain and the shrubs.
Three:
Made out of three colours - yellow, blue and vermilion (primary colours), this is the worst of the three, and the picture quality worsens it further. Absence of bright colours and my laziness in changing the water regularly shows up!
All the paintings below have been done with poster colours, which is an opaque medium and with hindsight, water colours would have been much better.
One:Landscape in only one colour - brown. I feel the clouds and islands have turned out nicely, but the water on the horizon is too dark and that closest to the viewer is a bit light. Perhaps a principle of colorimetry could set things right! This one's the simplest and probably the most beautiful of the three.
Apart from the black in the huts, I've used only two colours - brown and green in painting this landscape. Owing to the bad picture quality, the sky appears absolutely bland; it is (slightly) better in the original. Many things could have been better, especially the nearer mountain and the shrubs.
Made out of three colours - yellow, blue and vermilion (primary colours), this is the worst of the three, and the picture quality worsens it further. Absence of bright colours and my laziness in changing the water regularly shows up!
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