Yeah, I think you could have done with some underpainting. Also you've made the feather's look quite clumpish rather like sticky fur and they don't follow quite the same lines as they do on the actual bird so perhaps more reference pieces and breaking up the clumps a little could help next time. You might want to try a bit more gray in future since your pallet was very saturated. The head particularly the beak looks good, but the body is where you seem to have run into issues.
Yup-yup, saw the same things. The main difficulty has been in not knowing how to handle the medium, and being very awkward with it. The next one will be better. Part of the saturation problem is actually in the photography. I was amazed at the variety of colour I would get from the camera, from shot to shot, and often with identical lighting situations.
I've not used oils in a few years, they just don't flow the same as acrylics, I find they need a much more loose touch, working in layers and reworking to tighten up, that's the great thing about oils, that they can be reworked and painted over for a long time. One thing I often do is "lose edges" and let the dark and light define the image, or I put in a general sort of hint of something and let the viewers mind fill in the rest.
I find the best way to photograph art is on a plain background with indirect natural light and no flash, then tweak in an image editing program to get as close to the original as possible.
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Yeah, I think you could have done with some underpainting. Also you've made the feather's look quite clumpish rather like sticky fur and they don't follow quite the same lines as they do on the actual bird so perhaps more reference pieces and breaking up the clumps a little could help next time. You might want to try a bit more gray in future since your pallet was very saturated. The head particularly the beak looks good, but the body is where you seem to have run into issues.
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I've not used oils in a few years, they just don't flow the same as acrylics, I find they need a much more loose touch, working in layers and reworking to tighten up, that's the great thing about oils, that they can be reworked and painted over for a long time. One thing I often do is "lose edges" and let the dark and light define the image, or I put in a general sort of hint of something and let the viewers mind fill in the rest.
I find the best way to photograph art is on a plain background with indirect natural light and no flash, then tweak in an image editing program to get as close to the original as possible.
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You do the most magificent work.
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could use some laser beams coming out of its eyes :P
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