Here is my latest still life (Autumn Still Life #2) painting with its unraveling development.
Here is my latest still life (Autumn Still Life #2) painting with its unraveling development.
![Autumn Still Life #2.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRoKTijNVBChWdotmdzrGz6M2PgCEep6WVU5kb2aYfiay/Autumn%20Still%20Life%20%232.jpg)
Autumn Still Life #2
16" x 20"
Oil on canvas
Greetings fellow Steemians!,
As I do realize that it has been quite some time now since I last posted an intensive process revealing blog post on my work, now I thought it would be good time to share my latest painting and discuss its lengthy development.
I admit that this painting took waaaayy longer than planned. I felt that I was completely absorbed in its completion and was dead set on finishing it, so here it goes!
![Autumn Still Life #2 1.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmSpJgy4GNh1DCNxmMDhoAoBYJ8gVVXukWvNpTPLL2KSV8/Autumn%20Still%20Life%20%232%201.jpg)
(Here is my setup in real life)
Using some standard craft paper, as usual I began with an initial block in drawing with charcoal in which eventually would be transferred onto the painting surface and sealed with ink.
![Autumn Still Life #2 2.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWytsqPehdHCBhAmy4V1T61UgJbhkuTueV3bZDginagkj/Autumn%20Still%20Life%20%232%202.jpg)
Now that I sealed in the transfer drawing with ink on the blank white canvas surface, I then started to mass in the shadows with thinned burnt umber.
![Autumn Still Life #2 3.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmfUqCNZSYJzoN23GawqDHn8wZvZq9fVw9WcEUU9moJCVK/Autumn%20Still%20Life%20%232%203.jpg)
Using mixtures of venetian red, ultramarine blue and titanium white, I then mixed several value strings ranging from the red to blue, and then mixing increasing piles of lighter value each from those separate piles. I used these strings to lay in the initial pass of the background.
![Autumn Still Life #2 4.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVD9xbrkx7gt5a9tAw4KbeiXiM1ZPDXSjrs19eNKNbyxE/Autumn%20Still%20Life%20%232%204.jpg)
I then proceeded the same way towards the ground plane and foreground.
![Autumn Still Life #2 5.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmeMi3xUkQKHBBFzHhRUaBeMdhqRU4HJk7BmWHWnSfBvUx/Autumn%20Still%20Life%20%232%205.jpg)
I found laying in the pumpkin to be especially difficult. Not only was I simultaneously refining the drawing, but I also was attempting to accurately capture its chroma. This object I found to have taken up most of the time, not necessarily because of its size in relation to the rest of the picture.
![Autumn Still Life #2 6.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTQrv5Bf8rQ3RBE6ryZQWSysZGAkhntJymgHFDt1du8hX/Autumn%20Still%20Life%20%232%206.jpg)
The onion and the corn in the background I decided to work on next. Logically, I chose to save refining the corn til the end of the painting.
![Autumn Still Life #2 7.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmb9ayprjRZ6bSaSAG4eaGPNne2tkLfkszTmZxjG8GK2sZ/Autumn%20Still%20Life%20%232%207.jpg)
The second onion behind the bowl and the bowl itself was next.
![Autumn Still Life #2 8.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVKw1RVQNMVjbPhQx5z4WtTwiifUpVi92F3vNHxBz1AB9/Autumn%20Still%20Life%20%232%208.jpg)
Now going back to the pumpkin, progressively from right to left I then started the second pass. Some sections of the painting were particularly “thirsty” so some sections were painted even a third time before moving on. Once sections “decided” to refrain from sinking in, I then could accurately judge colors and values adjacent to what was previously painted.
![Autumn Still Life #2 9.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmXcaNaGJHG7c2a39DBSTPAtdZiGJJUNpGrUNqigS1vhiu/Autumn%20Still%20Life%20%232%209.jpg)
![Autumn Still Life #2 10.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPz9PrGEp1v1ELvzc1V7DY5adFqo39be2tQd8VeE6euVr/Autumn%20Still%20Life%20%232%2010.jpg)
![Autumn Still Life #2 11.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmSigEhorLcncjBxc3BupWtzPZAP3RMGZXGhCGwG7XA7di/Autumn%20Still%20Life%20%232%2011.jpg)
Now that I am near the end of the painting, I then finished up the foreground’s edges and decided to rework the cast shadows.
![Autumn Still Life #2 12.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTm414CRLMs5RtPPL1cA7VrxziYPrQ2ULEFDfYnPkbnvp/Autumn%20Still%20Life%20%232%2012.jpg)
![Autumn Still Life #2 13.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmVttLUsRj2yvbVTCiK9WHLoV8ajqaJ4kvHYmuJJXGDy3z/Autumn%20Still%20Life%20%232%2013.jpg)
..aaannd it's finished!
![Autumn Still Life #2.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRoKTijNVBChWdotmdzrGz6M2PgCEep6WVU5kb2aYfiay/Autumn%20Still%20Life%20%232.jpg)
Please feel free to let me know what you think?
Thanks for reading Everyone!
-James Hansen
I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin. @jameszenartist following and upvoted
@henrysblog Thank you! I'm glad you liked it :)
great artwork my friend. Please continue posting a valuable like this and I definitely see you being successful on this community in the near future. Great post
Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it :) I can assure you that there will be plenty more where this came from.
Wonderful step-by-step presentation of your painting proces. And painting looks just as photo, but better.
Thank you :)
Interesting all the steps that must be followed to get a job so well achieved, especially the details of the bowl that looks very real. Congratulations!
Thank you, I really appreciate that :)
Good painting and the manufacturing process require more patience
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