This project sparked my first freestyle oil painting. All the other oil paintings I've ever done were of landscapes, and with the guidance of a teacher-led class. When gathering the references for this painting I noticed that there were lots of dark and light values that I could try to manipulate. There were also many black areas in the pictures, so I took them into Photoshop and changed the colors in the picture to turn black into blues and purples. The HARDEST thing about this project was to paint an ellipse correctly. I will correct this soon, but the CD in the picture had a weird ellipse to it. I am normally very good at capturing the perspective of things, but I really need to work on ellipses. This was a very challenging painting to get the values right because oils take so long to dry, therefore the bright colors and highlights have to be painted first or else the darks will blend them and mess up the entire painting. I found it very interesting that oils give me the freedom of manipulation throughout working with shadows and blending. All the smaller areas I used a pallet knife because they were too small for paintings with a brush. The overall turnout of this was good, but I still need to fix the CD, which I made an ellipsed stencil to put on when I'm ready.
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