painting | darren brant http://www.darrenbrant.com Artist Printmaker Wed, 01 May 2024 13:33:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 13410479 South East of Otterville http://www.darrenbrant.com/art_blog/digital_art/south-east-of-otterville/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=south-east-of-otterville http://www.darrenbrant.com/art_blog/digital_art/south-east-of-otterville/#respond Fri, 26 Jun 2015 21:02:03 +0000 http://www.darrenbrant.com/?p=1371 Digital oil painting using Artrage. Quick sketch of the landscape south east of Otterville, Ontario.

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]]> Digital oil painting using Artrage. Quick sketch of the landscape south east of Otterville, Ontario.

otterville digital landscape painting

Otterville digital landscape painting 9″ x 16″

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]]> http://www.darrenbrant.com/art_blog/digital_art/south-east-of-otterville/feed/ 0 1371 Cloud Study – Digital Painting http://www.darrenbrant.com/art_blog/digital_art/cloud-study-digital-painting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cloud-study-digital-painting http://www.darrenbrant.com/art_blog/digital_art/cloud-study-digital-painting/#respond Wed, 24 Jun 2015 21:55:17 +0000 http://www.darrenbrant.com/?p=1363 Trying my hand again with Artrage. Cool natural media digital painting program. Here is a quick “oil” painting I did using my reference sketch.

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]]> Trying my hand again with Artrage. Cool natural media digital painting program. Here is a quick “oil” painting I did using my reference sketch.

Cloud Study

Cloud Study painting. Done with Artrage

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]]> http://www.darrenbrant.com/art_blog/digital_art/cloud-study-digital-painting/feed/ 0 1363 Following Thompson http://www.darrenbrant.com/art_blog/painting/following-thompson/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=following-thompson http://www.darrenbrant.com/art_blog/painting/following-thompson/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2014 17:43:40 +0000 http://www.darrenbrant.com/?p=1208 Last Year I got it into my head to pack up my oil paints and head off to Algonquin Park to Plein Air Paint. I invited a pile of friends and set the date to July 16th 2014. A year has past and the trip date is almost upon me....

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]]> Last Year I got it into my head to pack up my oil paints and head off to Algonquin Park to Plein Air Paint. I invited a pile of friends and set the date to July 16th 2014. A year has past and the trip date is almost upon me. Despite the best of intentions, I am not ready.

Tom Thomson, The Jack Pine (1916–17). Oil on canvas; 127.9 × 139.8 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

So here we go. Thanks to my superior procrastination abilities, a mad last minute rush to get myself prepared.

The original plan was to visit the sites shown on the above map. Notice the distance. My original plan proved impractical so we are going to play it by ear and stick around Canoe lake, doing day hikes.

First things first, I need to gather my equipment. I’ve got 27 Days before I leave.

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]]> http://www.darrenbrant.com/art_blog/painting/following-thompson/feed/ 1 1208 Why do I not like Acrylic Painting? http://www.darrenbrant.com/art_blog/painting/why-do-i-not-like-acrylic-painting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-do-i-not-like-acrylic-painting http://www.darrenbrant.com/art_blog/painting/why-do-i-not-like-acrylic-painting/#comments Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:11:46 +0000 http://www.darrenbrant.com/?p=185 A few weeks back I sat down with my wife and we setup a still life in front of the window. Two hours of beating my brush against the canvas resulted in the painting on the right. It was a frustrating experience. The root of my frustration was my inability...

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]]> A few weeks back I sat down with my wife and we setup a still life in front of the window. Two hours of beating my brush against the canvas resulted in the painting on the right. It was a frustrating experience. The root of my frustration was my inability to replicate in the acrylic paint the colour’s of my subject.

Now I’m not a painter and colour has always been my nemesis, but it got me to thinking about my relationship with the acrylic painting medium.

 

My Acrylic Painting History.

squash acrylic painting

Squash Acrylic Painting

I remember my first acrylic painting well. I was 14. It was crap. Fast forward 30 years to my squash still life and that is my complete experience with acrylic painting.

Not completely true. I vaguely remember some acrylics on paper somewhere in that 30 year time span, but the squirrels got them so they don’t count.

 

 

Advantages of the Acrylic Medium

Despite never really using the medium it’s not because I dislike anything about it. Acrylic has may things going for it.

  • It’s quick drying
  • thins with water – no nasty solvent
  • you can glaze with it
  • it’s opaque – you can paint right over mistakes

So I think I’ve talked myself into painting more, and I think I may learn to like the acrylic medium.

I’ve made an appointment with myself tomorrow for an hour of painting, so we’ll see what comes of this.

 

 

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