I agree with Diamond, you always bring something cool and interesting to the table Chashio.
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
I agree with Diamond, you always bring something cool and interesting to the table Chashio.
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
Aww thanks Chashio That is the one I meant yes!
This looks more like a painting (and i mean that in a good way ). Beautiful!
Is this the "bloody sea" in the south? Looks like fresh blood seeping into the water.
I'm trapped in Darkness,
Still I reach out for the Stars
Not quite that morbid. I haven't worked the water yet, just enough to define the coastlines. I imagine it'll turn out closer to the shadow color on the distant mountains, but who knows. Still messing around with ideas for possible styling techniques on the water.
I do have a small background in landscape painting. And since I likely won't be adding labels to it, it is more of a painting.
Here's another crappy phone picture and a bit larger than actual size, but it should serve my purpose; I'd like an opinion on the valley in the center of the picture. I'm not sure I like the terrain in the mid'section of this one yet... I DO like the upper sections of it next to and below the mountains to mid'picture, but everything below that... where it gets bumpy. Is it too weird or unnatural or different compared with everything else or ? It's how I happened to interpret the canvas today, and I'm half thinking of changing it tomorrow, but I'd like an opinion this evening if anyone cares to offer one. I'm really just winging it; I've never actually experienced firsthand such a mountainous area before and I'd like it to be at least halfway close to naturally feasible. Well... maybe a quarter feasible.
Update. Decided to rework it a bit and bring the wide valley to the right a little closer to what's happening in the central valley to make it all a little more cohesive terrain-wise... Still not there yet but I think perhaps more so. And you can ignore that really squiggly bit (yep, that bit right there), because it's not going to stay like that.
Still amazing I think the valleys look completely feasible; retracting ice sheets can create some interesting formations, like those.
Well, I skipped painting yesterday to tweak a commission to a final assessment stage. Getting back to the acrylic this morning I decided to work on that squiggly bit some more and see if I could arrange it more to my liking... while painting in a different location because I've been commandeering a nice comfy spot near a skylight in the guest bedroom and it's going to be occupied this evening... the chimney cleaner was due to be arriving for an appointment and as it happened he needed to interrupt me momentarily to help catch a little soot covered tree frog that jumped out to explore the furthest corners of the living room when he opened the hatch... He did catch it and we rinsed it off a bit in the kitchen sink where it almost escaped again... ah, fun times. haha! And I also decided to shift my technique to a more opaque, covering type and see how it goes. A lot of this so far has been transparent wash and glazing to try to keep as much of the luminosity from the canvas as possible... meh. And both the painting and photo of it came out more crappy than usual because the space I was painting in is too dark to be painting in.
And it completely serves me right for choosing to work there.