My lastest painting

[Renee]

Hi Renee and Marylka, thanks for the lovely comments,  the one Pelican is having "a bad feather day" LOL, I called it "Pelican Waltz"

I like the look of its bad feather day.

[mrdwyer9]

Hi Marylon,
Wonderful detailed and lovely painting
Margaret Rose

[poppycat]

Hello Maylon, Beautiful composition, and the colours are really well balanced, you can give yourself a big 'pat on the back' with this one Maylon, and another lesson learnt also, for us all, ie:- use our best paper for our paintings, unless it is just for practice - it could be a master piece, and then we would kick our selves.  Congratulations.  Regards, Patricia.

[paula]

I love both of these paintings - but especially the train!

[Maylon]

Thanks for the comments ALL, Did you know?

 A Pelican`s beak holds more fish,
Than his belly can.

Maylon

[Maylon]

Hello Maylon, Beautiful composition, and the colours are really well balanced, you can give yourself a big 'pat on the back' with this one Maylon, and another lesson learnt also, for us all, ie:- use our best paper for our paintings, unless it is just for practice - it could be a master piece, and then we would kick our selves.  Congratulations.  Regards, Patricia.

Hi Poppycat Thanks for the comments, wanted to say the paper is not bad paper really, my art teacher uses it, and i did not like it much, but do now, always use it to just sort of paint experiment and have fun. It is actually 300gr. it is called Water, Acid free, age resistant, Natural white, Matte, Made with Hahnemuhle Britannia Watercolour Paper, Prime art multi media pad A3. It is actually very forgiving, the paint is very easy to remove. To soften edges is tricky as it removes so easily. I am learning that certain subjects will work well on it, landscapes for instance. I think maybe as it is a more detailed picture a more staining paper would have been better, for the depth. So I could have perhaps got more depth on Arches 300gr paper. I did not stretch it either. Have done a few on this paper now, and it is very easy and pleasant to paint on. I have even used acrylics on it.
Maylon

[Kathy B.]

Great job Maylon , I love the title . your reflections  on the water look very good and nice work on the Pelicans.Kathy

[marylka]

Hi Renee and Marylka, thanks for the lovely comments,  the one Pelican is having "a bad feather day" LOL, I called it "Pelican Waltz"

Hi Maylon,
You gave them their own character which is great.
Marylka

[paula]

Hi Maylon, I love your painting of the pelicans - all I can say is that if you do reflections like that on a cheap paper can you imagine what an expensive paper could produce. The water is wonderful.  The painting has a harmonious effect due to the use of complementary colours - well done

[paula]

Renee nice composition - where do you get your reference material - I don't think there are many steam trains left these days - I remember as a child visiting my aunt and I went on a steam train - I remember looking out of the window and on a bend you could see the front of the train chugging away with the steam coming out - really lovely

[Maylon]

Paula Thanks for that lovely comment, went to your site and was totally BLOWN away, by your art, WOW !!!. I am still learning, but i have improved in the last year, and I think it is this site and others, but i have learned a lot here. I totally agree about the paper, I am going to have to stick to 2 or maybe 3 , as that is how we get to know how each behaves, and we can then get the best results, possible. I have only been back at art this is going into my 3rd yr, and I feel I am slowly improving esp in the last year. I also love acrylics and have done oils as well, but i think due to my passion for w/c acrylics might win over oils,  for that reason.
Maylon

[Renee]

Renee nice composition - where do you get your reference material - I don't think there are many steam trains left these days - I remember as a child visiting my aunt and I went on a steam train - I remember looking out of the window and on a bend you could see the front of the train chugging away with the steam coming out - really lovely

Thanks, My husband and I take our own photos for reference. We live very close to this old steam engine that I painted. It is the Sumpter Steam Engine that used to transport gold and lumber in the 1800's and for many years after.  But it was used for lumber more.
The train has been kept intact over the years and is only used once a year during the Sumpter festival giving rides for 3 days. My husband and I were driving across one day the area and spotted it at the old train station. Not even the usual place it is kept now days. The steam was billowing out so we knew it was started, so we drove down to see why. It is a special even for a photo shoot for photographers. That was a lucky pass for us because we had our camera!

[Renee]

Remember this latest painting of mine at « Reply #49 on: July 09, 2010,? I sent it to Susan for critic and she had some good advice, "naturally ". So I deepened the shadows at the bottom and also clean the edges of my leaves some. I doctored the window frame edge that I goofed on to start with. Then I took a picture of it using the same setting I thought I had the 1st time around and it looks worse than the 1st upload! I could not really get either setting to match the actual painting. The bottom that I made darker does look darker in real life too. But it looks lighter than the first one. Its strange how it looks more dark in the 1st upload than the one I actually made darker for the 2nd upload. I tried putting more contrast in the actual painting.  The Doctored one # 2 does look closer to the original than the 1st because it has more contrast and some cooler colors. It must have been a different setting. Or maybe my other camera. Should I continue to add more dark to the bottom? Tell me what you would do.
The 1st one is June, the 2nd one is July.

[Maylon]

Renee I love it it is an exquisite painting, really beautiful. i love the bottom one, all that light going on is gorgeous. the window sill is fabulous in the bottom one, but is it just this shot or the actual painting that makes the wall below the window sill look lighter? also the window frame looks lighter in the second photo. I prefer those  the darker colour,  like the top one. Love everything about the painting though.
Maylon

[Renee]

Thanks! The original window pane does look to have more blush color in it, but for the life of me, I could not get a setting to pick it up for the 2nd one. Even my photo editing software would not get it right. It is the photo shot that made it look lighter on the bottom. It made allot of places lighter. Probably because it was early and the room was full of natural light. No other indoor lights on at all.
I think my original is somewhere between the two. I may go darker still for the bottom.
What I think happened is the 1st photo was taken with a  soft setting at night with indoor lighting. It showed less contrast and picked up allot of reds in the atmosphere. The 2nd was taken in the morning with the sun coming through my widows and the place was full of natural daylight. No indoor lights were on at all. It shows you just how much  indoor lights and natural light are different. There is more contrast in on the wood surface of the 2nd painting because it was darkened as well as the bottom part of the wall at the bottom.