Observation Taffy Wafer Studies

Love doing quick observation studies at my desk, always learn so much from each one. Here are some salt water taffy and wafer biscuits paintings.

Painted the sweetest thing!

Yummy & pretty still life studies

Still taking the time to observe colour and light with still life studies. Here are some yummy snacks at my desk and some super tricky to paint orange roses!

Film Studies for Nathan Fowkes Schoolism

Week 1 of Nathan Fowkes Schoolism Environment Design Class, he asks us to study some of our favourite images, maximum 1hr each and discover the essence of the image. I decided to paint from some of my favourite movies, to challenge myself to learn more about cinematography but to become quicker at colour keys. No tracing and no colour picking, forced me to be smart with my choices and not get caught up with the details. As you can see, I got a little addicted painting these!

 12 Angry Men
A Shadow Of A Doubt
 Forest Gump  Papermoon
  The Good Dinosaur
  Days Of Heaven
  Laurence Of Arabia
  Rise Of the Guardians
  Road to Perdition
  Road to Perdition
  Road to Perdition
  The Shawshank Redemption
  The Shining Gladiator

 Inside OutThe Croods

Observing water in trendy cafes

Love trendy cafes in Melbourne and their different ways to serve water. Observation paintings completed while drinking coffee.

Yummy Nectarine Study

Looking at my nectarine snack on my desk yesterday afternoon, I just had to quickly paint a lighting study of it before I ate all!

More yummy studies at my desk

 and yes I ate both of them :)

Schoolism Painting With Colour & Light Week 8

This course has taught me so much and I can see the massive difference from Week1 observation paintings. This cafe diffused study was for Week 8 and then we added The Dam Keepers Pig. After this created 3 other colour light setups through adjustment and mask layers.

Adding some light & colour

this project was from Week7 of Schoolism Painting with Light and Colour by Dice Tsutsumi & Robert Kondo. Painted the diffused light painting of the buildings outside my apartment and then had some fun adding different light sources and some colour!

#MeetTheArtist

I did this one a little earlier this year under the hashtag project #MeetTheArtist

Painting & observing pretty colours

Observational studies are so much fun!

Here is a bunch of observational studies I have been doing for Schoolism's class, Painting with Colour and Light by Dice Tsutsumi & Robert Kondo. Taking the time to see how and why values, colour and lighting change between diffused and direct light, has been a real eye opener for me. I recommend this class so highly! More studies to come!