So I wanted to try out watercolor for this one and I might try oil on the follow up or prismacolor. I guess what I'm looking for is some feedback on how the look of glass is working out. I've never tried painting something so transparent. Any suggestions there? I'm thinking of not using a direct light either, to possibly capture other images reflected in the glass like Geoff suggested earlier. I know there are a couple drawing problems I could address but alas w/ watercolor there's no going back. So the top one is the finished piece with in progress pics below. I'm also considering painting these in a shadow box, on a window sill and on an old piece of wood where they would screw on.
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I think the transparency works quite well; if it had a little more color variation I think it would push it further.
You really need to nail the symmetry and ellipse at the bottom! That small mistake is holding the whole thing back. I know you're working in watercolors, and I know how it is: I think I nail an ellipse, and then I start painting and the thing gets fouled up. Look at the painting I just posted; I busted butt on trying to fix that cup and it still is a little off. But on the edge of the bottom, if that thing turned the corner it would read a lot better.
Pretty rich, though. I like the direction and want to see a bunch more.
It looks transparent to me. I would think there would be brighter highlights, but I could be wrong. Amen to what Tyler said about symmetry. With such a simple composition, the symmetry needs to be perfect.
The background really finishes off the painting and gives it an atmosphere, although I think your other background ideas would be even more successful. The wood would be really cool because it would be a huge contrast in texture. It would make the glass look smoother and the wood look even rougher. More, More!
Two things are holding me back from believing that this is a real image. 1) the symmetry (already mentioned above, so won't dwell on it) and 2)the horizontal line in background ("You know...in the real world lines don't really exist"...guess who's quoted...although I kind of edited out about 10 mintutes worth or reiderating :) In all seriousness though, the line directs the image towards a more cartoon-like style than the realistic one that I think you're going for. In that aspect, I think the second image is more convincing than the top, finished one.
Good work though! Love the object itself. Nice value contrast...and in watercolor too! That's impressive.
This is really slick. I like the modern simplicity of the composition. A series of these would make great prints, $$$.
As others have said: symmetry, especially because you have a straight line behind the form. If you had that ragged piece of wood in there you might be able to hide it a little.
I think the middle version is most successful at looking transparent. The mid values are lighter. I like how dark those edges are, but the highlights need to be much higher to compete with them and make it look 'shiney.'
With glass you really have to nail the surface properties as well as the material properties because you can see beneath the surface. Especially study the optical changes that take place as the surface moves from parallel to the eye, to perpendicular. The more perpendicular to the eye, the more 'transparent' it will appear, while the more parallel to the eye, the more reflective of relative surfaces it will be, but also, depending on the thickness of the glass, you'll see a banding of light that is moving through the glass beneath the surface to the eye.
Good stuff. Just fine tune it a little.
I kept the highlights as bright as I could with the papers color. I need to try adding chinese white or acrylic white paint the piece. As for the elipse oops. I could see it but it was too late for the watercolor medium. I'll get that on the next one. Thanks for the help.
i dont have the object to look at but i think the edges are to crisp which seems to fight to glassy curves of the actual object. can us post a picture of the object
yeah I was thinking the same thing as Vince. I would think the edges would be more blunt.
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