Red Handled Ball Pein Hammer Painting

Red Handled Ball Pein Hammer Painting This is the second time I've painted a portrait of this specific ball pein hammer. This tool has so much character. I found it in my Father's rusty one-time shed. I tin remember seeing it there for every bit long equally I can recall.

I started the painting similar it practice all of my work, and that's with a line cartoon. I try to analyze the shapes and forms as accurately as I tin can. I typically do all of my layout-drawings on a 1:one scale. This means I'k drawing the hammer to the exact size that it is in existent life. Knowing this is the finish goal for my drawing and ultimately the finished painting I like to measure the tool first. Next I mark two dots on my paper then I have some boundaries established. Since I hang nearly tools that are long and slender these premises usually mark off the top and lesser well-nigh parts of the tool.

So it was business as usual… complete an accurate line cartoon, and so transfer the line drawing to my canvass and so paint! All of this takes many hours by the way. It's astonishing how much pre-work goes into some of my simplest looking paintings. I have writing almost this a lot before in my monthly newsletter. After all of these decades painting I accept come up to realize that the extensive preparation saves me hours in the long run. It'due south likewise comforting to know that I am well acquainted with the subject field matter by the time a brush hits the canvas.

A off-white amount of my time was spent rendering the chips and missing paint on the hammer. Some spots evidence bare woods while others have dents in them. Similar most artists I aim to get an accurate gist of what occurring. Of class I'm not getting everything exact. This is where it'south super helpful to have a solid agreement of form and value. I tin can logically make sense of the thousands of unique details and reduce things to simplicity where necessary. This was the about frustrating part nigh learning to paint and I must say painting gets way more fun when you lot know what you're doing!