In Living Color 10 - Glass

Next in line was glass which I found to be very interesting but challenging.  How on earth do you create a three dimensional transparent object using flat white paper and color.  So not to make it to easy on myself I decided to try three different pieces in no less than three different colors.  What was I thinking!!  I scrounged around the house and came up with these three items and set up the still life.  Out of the three the green piece is the one I was sure would be next to impossible.


Glass - Still Life

As it turns out once I started painting I found that the green piece was the one I did the best.  I wasn't real happy with the way the other two finished mostly because I kept overworking them trying to get the shape and perspective correct.  All in all it was a good learning experience and maybe some day I'll try it again.

Glass - Watercolor

Now if glass wasn't hard enough it was time to move onto something even more challenging.  Fur or hair as it is sometimes referred too.  I had the perfect subject.  When I was a young girl, and I do mean young,  my mother had two fox shoulder wraps which I inherited and have kept all these years. I know that this might upset some people but I didn't harm them I just inherited them and don't mean to offend anyone.  They made a great subject to paint and here is a picture of the two.

Fox Shoulder Wraps

Now I didn't want to paint both of them and there was someone else in the class that didn't know what to paint so I decided to share.  I chose the one on the right.  Kay my classmate painted the one on the left but never completed her painting since she couldn't quite get use to have it staring back at her with one eye.  Unfortunately one of the eyes was missing.  Here is the still-life, no pun intended, of the one I painted.

Fox Shoulder Wrap - Still Life

Painting fur one hair at a time was like watching grass grow but believe it or not I like the detailed work and didn't mind it.  Here is the finished picture.

Fox Shoulder Wrap - Watercolor