You have the tools....you see esteem. You have shading sense, you have the method of stamp making with pastels. Presently you simply require persistence and steadiness and practice. The more you paint without strain to play out the better time you will have and the sooner it will all meet up. I do have some advice.....you need to paint what moves you. It is extraordinary to be able to duplicate yet you need to express your own thoughts. To do that you need to have thoughts and subjects that you are energetic about. Pick something and work on painting that. When you paint what you cherish your own voice with come through. I comprehend your dissatisfaction and frustration however with training and time it will all end up instinctive. It is more imperative that you take the weight off of yourself and appreciate the adventure. Grasp where you are as of now.
The Value of a Value Thumbnail
It happens a great deal. I get so amped up for a composition thought that I need to surge ideal to the easel and begin painting. Now and again my eagerness defeats me and I don't back sufficiently off to make an arrangement. Those artistic creations are at times fruitful yet regularly with additional work to pull it off. When I back off to complete a snappy thumbnail draw I start the sketch with more certainty and that prompts more fun and less issues to back me off.
I want to do little esteem thumbnails where I disentangle my subject into a couple of shapes which are doled out a constrained scope of qualities typically 2-4 esteems. Continue perusing to perceive how an esteem thumbnail helped the present painting.
How does this esteem thumbnail enable me to make a more grounded painting? We should observe the reference photograph I utilized. You can see that it has a ton of 'stuff'.....a tangle of weeds, solid fence posts, terrible building. I was attracted to the scene in view of the blooms and not the additional stuff in the photograph. It should be altered to take out the messiness so I can center around the blossoms and their situation among the grasses.
I improved the scene into four basic shapes and alloted each shape an incentive from dim to light. This gave the establishment to the work of art. It enabled me to remain free and expressive for the greater part of the canvas. I utilize it as a guide and put the subtle elements over this guide. The esteem delineate the points of interest hold everything together like paste.
In this artwork I depended on the thumbnail to set up the establishment to hold the majority of the blossoms set up. On the off chance that you take a gander at the thumbnail and the photograph you can see that I took the dim zones at the base right of the photograph and extended it up into the canvas associating it to the dull bushes. This dull mass isn't in the photograph however I misrepresented it since I knew I required this dim set up so my blooms wouldn't buoy or look glued onto the artwork.