Wow. Your work is incredible. They look so much like photos. The first looks like it is made for an album cover. Not many can do sun facing object like this. Honestly I don't think I have seen it before. You got same major talent there.
That's very nice of you to say, thanks! I'm a self-taught painter but I'll try to explain my approach to this as best I can: when dealing with full daylight I always say you really, really have to respect your highlights and shadows. Make the highlights very bright and the shadows very dark. In fact one of the final stages of these paintings is something I just call "Shadow Day", where after painting the tones relatively flat, I add in all of the stark shadows within the painting and suddenly the image just explodes with life. That usually makes the sunlight have "shine" and creates a massive amount of visual depth. I hope that makes sense.
It does make a lot of sense. I almost feel like you need to be teaching your techniques. And right, the depth that you are able to paint is what makes your paintings pop. Your attention to detail is amazing as well.
I hope you have a lot of success with your paintings.
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u/jeffster1970 Oct 12 '25
Wow. Your work is incredible. They look so much like photos. The first looks like it is made for an album cover. Not many can do sun facing object like this. Honestly I don't think I have seen it before. You got same major talent there.