- Artist: Horst Hittenberger
- Size: 9 by 12
- Medium & Support: oil on canvas-board
- Artist Blog: http://horsthittenberger.
blogspot.com/ - Artist Website:
- Painting Technique : realistic
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Horst Hittenberger
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Catharina Engberg
- Artist: Catharina Engberg
- Size: 17 x 23 cm
- Medium: Watercolour
- Support: Arches fine, 180 gr. Cold pressed
- Artist Blog: http://www.catharinaengberg.
blogspot.se
Monday, October 14, 2013
Nelvia McGrath
Artist: Nelvia McGrath
Size: 4.5"x5.5"
Medium: Pastel on sanded Paper
Artist Blog: http://
Painting
technique: Wanted to loosen up so used sanded paper and alcohol to smudge the underpainting and then added final layer
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Jenni Twidle - "Is this a Lotus Flower?"
8" x 10.5"
soft pastel on Pastelmat
Jenni Twidle
"Is this a Lotus Flower?"
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Angela Sullivan - "Wet Wonder"
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Challenge 41 - Water Lily
I must share with you how delighted my cousin Oki was with such a variety of styles and artistic expressions we all witnessed in the last challenge. Many of you shared how difficult it was and I applaud to all of you who participated. What is the most important is to advance your skills and keep observing, painting and practicing.
About the composition
This time I have chosen a subject related to painting water and reflections. While looking at it, it is hard not to think of Claude Monet's garden in France and his famous water lilies.
I hope you will enjoy painting this water study.
Please send your entries by November 09. The next challenge will be posted on November 10.
Monday, September 30, 2013
Hanneke Bronwasser - " Mysterious girl "
" Mysterious girl "
watercolour on Canson Fontenay paper
24 x 32 cm
Hanneke Bronwasser
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Friday, September 27, 2013
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Horst Hittenberger
- Artist: Horst Hittenberger
- Size: 9 x 12
- Medium & Support: oil on canvas
- Artist Blog: http://
horsthittenberger.blogspot. com/ - Artist Website:
- Painting Technique : Ala Prima
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Mari Jose Molina
Artist: Mari Jose Molina
Size: 29x15
Medium & Support: Acuarela sobre papel
Artist Blog: marijoepintora.blogspot.
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Mohepi - "La fille au chapeau"
- "La fille au chapeau"
- watercolor on Canson Fontenay, 300g
- 40 x 28 cm
- http://www.four-et-moulin.fr/
galerie-aquarelles.html
Friday, September 6, 2013
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Monday, August 26, 2013
Sunday, August 25, 2013
France
Artist: France
Country: France
Size: 50 x35 cm
Medium: pastel on simple white
paper
My blog: www.misstoutoufrance.skyblog.
Painting process: nothing special,this is
like a coloring. I only changed the color of the clothe because i
keep the white background.... Should i make a background ??
Linda Wan - " Healthy Beauty"
Healthy Beauty
Artist : Linda Wan
Drawing using Graphit Pencil
on Watercolour Paper(350gm)
Website : 1-linda-wan.artistwebsites.com
Monday, August 19, 2013
Challenge 40 - Figure Study
I have to express my deepest respect to all artists who painted our last PADT challenge. It was different and challenging as many of you noticed. I hope it gave an opportunity to learn something new and explore new artistic horizons. I remember reading - "New horizons are often found at the boundaries of chaos" and could not agree more.
About the composition
Recently some of you asked me to introduce a figurative composition as the next PADT challenge. This gave me quite enjoyable and challenging homework.
Meet my cousin Oki. She is an artist and was very kind to voluntarily contribute to PADT artist community and pose for all of us to paint. It is not an easy task, nor all can do it. I find that posing and still looking natural is very difficult. It requires practice, patience and dedication. I thoroughly admired her patience and willingness to repeat the same pose countless times until all looked just right.
I hope you will enjoy painting this figure study.
Please send your entries by September 29. The next challenge will be posted on September 30.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Shirley Bond
Painting #2
- Artist: Shirley Bond
- Size: 12in X 12in
- Medium & Support: acrylic
- Artist Blog: http://only700.blogspot.
com/ - Artist Website:
- Painting Process:I planned on simplifying the forms and making a design with the colors of the sunset and cloth. I wanted the goblet to be the central focus so I placed it right in the middle. This was a fun painting to do.
Painting #1
- Artist: Shirley Bond
- Size: 8in X 10in
- Medium & Support: watercolor
- Artist Blog: http://only700.blogspot.
com/ - Artist Website:
- Painting Process: I had planned to keep the background light but found the goblet did not show well so attempted to redo the background. Not a good idea! I also realized that I had placed the goblet too far to the left and the composition was poor. A good learning experience.
Friday, July 26, 2013
France
Artist: France
Size: 30 x 40
cm
medium support: mixte
Artist blog: www.misstoutoufrance.skyblog.
Painting process: The challenge is a
photo montage, so, i made a painting assembly...The gold cup is acrylic and
i cut it; , the clothes are pastel and i cut them, i assembled them on the
sky which is pastel. The more difficult for me was the green clothes !!
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Mohepi - ""Etrange calice""
- Mohepi
- "Etrange calice"
- watercolor on Canson Montval paper 300g
- 21 x 29 cm
- Artist's Note: I liked the strange effect of the composition and that's what I tried to obtain in my painting.
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Renate Arends - “Victory”.
- Artist: Renate Arends
- Size: 30 x 40 cm.
- Medium & Support: Watercolor on Terschelling Watercolor paper 300 gr.
- Artist Blog: www.renatearends.
blogspot.nl - Artist Website:
- Painting Process: I started with putting masking fluid on the trophy. After that I did serval layers with seperate colors for the sky, wet on wet. Next I painted the rest. Most difficult: to find the color for the cloth.
Friday, July 19, 2013
Angela Sullivan - "Your Majesty"
Title: Your Majesty
Size: 10x8
Medium: Oil
Artist: Angela Sullivan
Blog: www.angelasacrylics.blogspot.
Painting Process: Used palette knife to paint the vase.
Painting Process: Used palette knife to paint the vase.
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Challenge 39 - Coveted Trophy
A quick update ... One of the mails I received in the last challenge had a nice suggestion and I thought I would share it with you. The artist had suggested that each of us while submitting our painting could also perhaps write a sentence or two about how we did the painting. It would be a great learning experience for all of us to view and also read a bit about each other's painting process.
It's completely optional of course... however I have slightly modified (and added an extra field) in the submission form we use while sending our paintings for the challenge. Thank You!
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- Artist:
- Size:
- Medium & Support:
- Artist Blog:
- Artist Website:
- Painting Process:
About the composition
This challenge was inspired by very lovely and heartwarming
e-mail I received from PADT member from Portugal. It did get me thinking about
what can be accomplished with limited photographic equipment and a few hours of access
to the computer. Is it possible to create a good composition? I will let all PADT
artists comment about it while we explore this new, digitally assembled
composition.
It all started a few days ago with a visit to the Art Gallery
of Ontario. It wasn’t planned. I planned shopping to the close by area and then
realized, it is Wednesday, 7PM and I am 5 min walking distance from the museum.
I decided to say ‘Hi’ to the Rubens painting Massacre of Innocents, which is the
most famous painting in the whole museum. The late Ken Thomson bought the work at Sotheby’s in London in July 2002 for £49.5 million, at the time the highest price ever paid for a painting at auction and donated it to the museum.
This was the highest price paid in £sterling, in US dollars it was the third most expensive painting at $76.7 million. This price has since been surpassed but it still remains the world auction record for any Old Master painting. Needless to say how glad and grateful I am to Mr. Thomson for donating it to the museum so that all of us can enjoy it.
This was the highest price paid in £sterling, in US dollars it was the third most expensive painting at $76.7 million. This price has since been surpassed but it still remains the world auction record for any Old Master painting. Needless to say how glad and grateful I am to Mr. Thomson for donating it to the museum so that all of us can enjoy it.
I should mention that I did not have any fancy camera with
me. It was just my phone with simple camera on it. One of the gold plated
goblets caught my eye and I snapped a photo. The light conditions were less than favorable. This was my first photo reference to
start with.
I walked a few rooms further and noticed lovely still life.
My apologies to the artist but I am not fan of skulls and dark feelings.
However, I liked the rest of the composition. So this was my second reference.
On my way back home, the sky above the city turned blood red
and sunset was calling me to take its picture. It is not a fancy picture as you
can see, but good enough to serve as a third reference.
Today, I decided to challenge my creativity and see what I
can compose for all my PADT artists with intention to share how I did it and
what I used to create it so that you can try something similar. The free graphical software I used to assemble the reference
pictures in one composition is called GIMP and can be downloaded for free by
anyone.
I hope all will enjoy painting this challenge and be inspired to try your hands and assemble your own compositions in a similar way.
I hope all will enjoy painting this challenge and be inspired to try your hands and assemble your own compositions in a similar way.
Please send your entries by August 18. The next challenge will be posted on August 19.
Challenge 38 - Horst Hittenberger
Artist: Horst Hittenberger
Size: 14 by 11 (inches)
Medium & Support: Canvas panel
Artist Blog: http://
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Challenge 38 - Angelique de Vries
Artist: Angelique de Vries
Size: 20 x 30 cm
Medium & Support: Colored pencil
Artist Blog: http://members.quicknet.nl/
Challenge 38 - Carla Raffaelli
Medium: watercolor
Support: Fabriano paper 300 gr
Size: 35.5 x 51 cm
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