This is very well done, nice reflection/shine :)

Thank you. Hopefully I will have a better shot of it when it's finished.

I keep forgetting my actual camera and use my cell phone.

I used to LOVE making paintings of reflective surfaces. :)
This looks great! Im sure is looks amazing in person, the cell phone camera probably doesnt do it full justice. Wearing tye-dye colours was a great idea! How do you find working with oil paints?

I love working with oils. They blend so well and stay wet forever so working with blending can take days and you don't have to worry about everything drying super fast.

It does take a lot of patience though and you have to step back quite often to make sure you're not muddying up colors due to overworking. I did that on the thumb which is why it's orange. D: I fixed it after I took the picture tho.

The hardest part is whites because the colors below the white are wet so it's hard to get white to actually be white without waiting for it to dry a little so it doesn't just mix with the colors.

I love it and suggest all artists give it a try or take a class(a real class not one of those Bob Ross ones, he did it wrong as apposed to how art schools teach) because even if you don't like it you learn a lot from the techniques used in oil painting.


It's interesting to work from dark to light since most other mediums work light to dark.

wow that reflection is really cool nice job babe

Thank you sexay.

This really does look incredibly awesome, is it bad how much I'm digging those fingernails? :D

My fingernails aren't that pretty IRL. D:

I chew them and the skin around them as well as my knuckles so they're all scarred up but... I didn't wanna paint the scars.

This is seriously fantastic, and has really popped out color wise in this version, compared to the other in my honest opinion. =)

Yea, the color is better, when I finish it and can take apicture with my real camera it will hopefully show all of my color usage.

I'm so loving the textures in this, especially in your hand! And the light reflecting on the bell is very convincing.

Thank you, I had fun with the hand and the other Painting 2 students are all impressed with it, which made me feel good seeing as how they're all AMAZING!

wow! good job with the oils! just curious, what is off the left side of the person in the reflection?

The black line? Some dark strip on the wall behind me.