Project Heroes » commemorative painting http://www.projectheroes.ca Canada Honours Afghanistan Fallen Heroes Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:48:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Still Life -Commemorative Painting http://www.projectheroes.ca/still-life-commemorative-painting/ http://www.projectheroes.ca/still-life-commemorative-painting/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:35:00 +0000 admin http://www.projectheroes.ca/index2.php/still-life-commemorative-painting/

Work on our soldier portraits carries on and in the meantime we’ve taken photographs of of some of the gear that the soldiers carry. The photos will be used for a number of commemorative paintings that we’ll be doing, a few of which will be still life. One of the first steps in preparing to do a still life is to set up the objects you plan to paint. Ordinarily I like to paint directly from life whenever possible but since the equipment had to be returned the next day the only opportunity to paint it would be from photos. I took many pictures of the gear in different positions and will choose the ones that I like best, eventually one or more of them will become a painting.

Still Life

When I started to set up the first items my cat Spike came along to supervise. An hour or so later Pete my nosy, little mutt had to investigate too.

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- Cindy

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photo19Susan – Every now and then a painter has a painting that just isn’t working for one reason or another, and this one is problematic for me. There are some things that work well – I like the soldiers marching into the distance on the right and I like the main soldier and the way he fades into the soldiers marching.
The problem is the ‘bloom’ of faces behind him. There’s some glare on the photo, but still you can see how the faces look like a flower growing out behind the main soldier’s head.
It doesn’t matter how excellent our skills are, or how long we’ve been painting, we still occasionally create paintings like this one that I’ve had great challenges with and may eventually have to put in the scrap file if a really great idea doesn’t arise quickly.
So, if you have any ideas, feel free to comment. In the meantime, wish me luck with this one and I’ll either post the end result, or let you know if it hits the scrap heap and I start again.
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