Just a Leaf Sketch by helanker
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Hello !
I am always trying to create something on paper. This time it was one of the leaves I have posted earlier as a photograph.click here I am always struggling with backgrounds. I never know what to do about them :-/// The other day I painted a mable leaf but I hated the background, so I cheated and used a photograph of a foundation stone and some filters... Maybe I should do it here too. Well you wouldnt know, because you havent seen it yet :)
Thank you for your kind comments to my prev. post and special warm thanks to those who added it to their favorites. :))
Have a lovely day.
We had thunderstorm during the night, but now the weather is beautiful sunny and calm again. :)
Comments (18)
The sheet reminds me of the fact, that the buzzers past is. Very beautiful work!
I think this is PERFECT, Helle! I like it even better than the photo!
I couldn't help but smile, very uplifting art. I like it!
As far as I'm concerned Helle this is simply wonderful, and I think the background is nice
fine painting.
beautiful!
Beautifully done.. and tha background is just fine.
Beautiful art work - thanks
very pretty art work!!!! Great!!!!
So wonderful!!!
Lovely Artwork Helle!
excellent artwork
wow you did really well Helle!
Lovely colouring and I think this background looks great. Lovely work.
Haha, this is really charming Helle! I love your leaf! Concerning the BG, it's possible that the problem comes from the way you used to draw it which seems different from the one you used for the leaf. Have you tried dry pastels, especially in the forme of pencils (Carb'Othello, or even better ones)? They are very simple to use and produce easily first quality results. Perhaps they would solve your problem. Alternatively, in your case, you could use Corel Painter (expansive and complex but a fantastic software) or, simpler, ArtRage. I've bought ArtRage but I became angry with it because it's not possible to transform drawing elements as one does in Photoshop and, because I make a lot of errors and I am a realistic illustrator, it is difficult to correct them in ArtRage. But ArtRage generates easily very nice painting effects and beautiful textures. Do continue the good work!
Love your paintings ;o))))))))))))))))))))
I was reading elcet's comment, and he makes a number of good suggestions. Backgrounds—for a single object—are always a challenge. (Well you & I both know that, lol.) A lot of masters didn't do much with backgrounds—in their drawings & paint sketches—so they obviously had problems with backgrounds too. Time after time, rembrandt & da vinci & others just drew their object, shaded it & let it stand. (Helps if you have paper that isn't white, of course, and I don't think there was white paper in those days.) Your background is simple & uses simple diagonal lines, and your hues are very restful & harmonize with the blues of your leaf, so I think you did fine. It's a background & it's non-obtrusive & it harmonizes with the leaf. You shaded well underneath too. But the 'star' here (lol) is the leaf, and I remember when you posted the original, and some of the paintings you were doing back then. This one has a 'pointillist' quality, ie, getting all the furrows with points of color (dab, dab, dab), and that's something you do very naturally. Very nice washes in each furrow. And your orange rim in the upper-half is wonderful. (And another thing you could do is just put a gentle wash around the leaf, using the bluish-violet hue you used...there are no answers, are there? Someone should have given us the answers when we were born!)
superb paint