Boring painting...

Yet another crummy cellphone photo of the last painting I did for class. I need to invest in a real digital camera one of these days, these photos look so dang yellow and the colors are just... BLAH. The bear is purple, not grey like it appears in this photo.

Next photo is the still life scene we were looking at in class. Our painting instructor had us all bring stuff from home and she piled it all across a long shelf...then we picked out an area to paint. I brought the bear, and I think a lot of the other students hated me for bringing this "challenge" since they opted not to paint the furry hair.

Plus, the objects were moved around a bit, cloth was draped differently, wine bottle in top left corner disappeared... so it doesn't look exactly the same... just another obstacle I guess is improvising.

Occassionally I get bored with realism. Like right now. Problem is, I can't help but try to make things look real. I want to do different brushstokes, more expressionist wild strokes, or impressionist spots of color, a little variety from what I normally do. Something more contemporary. But dang it I keep coming back to the same old style. I could give my own psychological analysis of why I think I keep coming back to the realism, but I doubt y'all really care that much.


I should have at least made the bear look evil or something. Stuffed bears ARE evil ya know.

Anyway, I need to make a conscious effort to do something more interesting with the next project. Break out of this painting funk I'm stuck in.