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Published: 2018-09-13 23:45:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 1347; Favourites: 194; Downloads: 6
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Oil on canvas. A little rough and ready - didn't spend a super long time on this because I'm crazy tired but I really wanted to paint a picture with a fox in it. I might do a painting where the fox is the sole focus, but the mountains in this one just kinda showed up I guess. I like mountains, can you tell? Palette knife of course.www.instagram.com/estherrosear⦠If you like my paintings and you like the nightmare hellhole that is social media, please consider following me on Instagram. I update infrequently and dislike the mass marketing the platform is often used for, so I fit right in there
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The Landscape on its own would've been enough, but the fox gives it more life.Β
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πΈHowdy, howdy! Your piece is really quite beautiful! The landscape is very eye-catching and colorful. I do like the pop of orange in the corner, but the Fox's structure just seems a little wonky to me. But then I considered you used a pallette knife and the canvas size was probably on the smaller side for manageability and time-sake, so it's fine. Heheh The only other thing that I feel that detracts just a lil bit from the piece is that kinda weird glare in the corner near the fox. I assume the culprit is a light source bouncing of your texture because I've had the same issue when I take photos of my traditional pieces. Lol it's so annoying! I love traditional, but it's so difficult to get it inputted on the web. Oi! Overall though, you did a wonderful job! I appreciate you sharing your piece. Thankies!π
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I wasn't looking for critiques - it's an option that core members can enable, but I'm not a core member, and wouldn't enable it anyway; I paint for fun these days. I'm a mathematician, not an art student anymore. I'd suggest checking that people are interested in it before critiquing. I paint for fun and know where my mistakes are, but I'm not selling this, it's not a museum piece or even a gift, it was just a way of killing time. And yeah, taking photos on a mobile phone camera at 3am is obviously not going to come out well, but my dSLR is buried somewhere in a box at the moment so I do what I can with what I currently have available. Wet oils reflect a lot of light. It's just a crappy painting on deviantArt, not a museum piece or for sale, like I said.
The fox's proportions are fairly accurate, actually, although of course a small scale painting with a palette knife isn't going to be neat and hyperrealistic - that's not the point of it. The main problem with the painting is the overhang on the bank and the overly detailed tree, which I was just tired of by that point. As it says in the description, it's fairly rough and ready.
Edit: I uploaded a daylight photo of the piece, but some glare is unavoidable on a wet oil painting. I don't personally mind it too much anyway, as it draws attention to the impasto texture.
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i really love the texutre of thick oil on a canvas 
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Thank you! The technique of using very thick oils is called "impasto". It's pretty fun
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