After I painted a red base all over, I started painting the sky, my leggings, and the overhang thing. I figured I'd start out with the least detailed parts of the picture. Here I finished the overhang, painted a first layer of paint on the sidewalk and street, and added more value to the leggings. While I was doing the traffic light I smudged part of the sky and tried to fix it up, but it only looked worse so I decided to leave and go back to it later. At this point I had covered most of the canvas in paint, but I still had to add more details and fix some parts up. This is my first oil painting, so a lot of this process was just learning how to use the oils. You can see my progression in the painting itself. The hammock,one of the last things I did, is one of my favorite parts because of the bright color scheme and streaks. I also really like the street and sidewalk because of the different colors I incorporated. I learned that oils are easily blended and that it instead of completely mixing the colors I was using to get one color, it's better to just have all the colors peeking through.
I had the most trouble with the perspective of the legs and getting the shoes to look real. I think the leg perspective looks pretty good and that I succeeded in showing the highlights and shadows without using any black. I really like the white part of the shoe on the left because of the shadows, and I like the shape of both of the shoes, but I could've added more detail or different shades to make them look more realistic. The shadow on the advertisement stand thing was hard because I made it a little too big but didn't bother going back to fix it because I knew I'd mess up the sidewalk in the process. I do, however, like the different values in the shadow. Coming from only using acrylic paints previously, the fact that oils basically don't dry became a challenge as I worked. I kept trying to touch up little things and messing them up because I'd smear a bigger area than I was trying to fix in the first place. I learned to just go with my mistakes and layer. I love how the colors turned out in every part of the painting, and I can see how oils are really fun and freeing with the layers of paint and blending and brightness of it all.
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