I Remembered Black Skies, The Lightning All Around Me.

[rionaleonhart]

I was thinking, 'Hmm, maybe I should get into a routine of doing a painting every Saturday,' and then I did a painting today because I didn't have the patience to wait until the weekend. help help I can't stop painting

Today's subject is Life Is Strange. To my credit, I did three entire paintings before trying to reproduce a videogame screenshot.









I tried to work a bit of blue into the sky and the sea, but there's absolutely no sign of it. I suspect I should have used the dark blue, rather than the light. Never mind.

Slightly concerned to realised that my sad little trees in this storm look much the same as my happy little trees in Bob Ross landscapes. I really need to step up my tree game.

I'm so confused by the fact that this is apparently a hobby of mine now! I've never done any form of visual art, unless you count 'editing Pokémon into Supernatural screenshots'. What other things do I not realise I'd love because I've never tried them? Show jumping? Boiler repair?

Comments

[wolfy_writing]

help help I can't stop painting

Awesome!

What was the name of the blue you used?

Blue aside, that turned out very well. Considering this is your fourth painting, and you've never been into any visual arts, I was expecting something that looked like an obvious beginner, but I'm impressed! The cliff, the lighthouse, the sea, the sky, all great!

(Also slightly jealous, because you're about as good at painting as I am now.)

[rionaleonhart]

I mixed in a bit of Light Blue Permanent, but I think I should have tried to use the... okay, I just checked the name of my other blue and now I'm very puzzled. I think I should have tried to use the perplexingly named Ultramarine Blue (Red Shade).

Thank you so much! I can almost guarantee it'd be a disaster if I tried to paint anything other than landscapes, at least.

[wolfy_writing]

Yeah, ultramarine would have showed up a lot more. (That red shade thing is confusing. It's whether the blue is slightly more purplish or more greenish, but it's massively counterintuitive.)

Landscapes are hard! I cannot get the hang of them. Maybe I should try Bob Ross?