I got this sudden urge to paint pears today, so I decided to do a speed painting - but it turns out I'm disqualified because it went over the 2 hour mark, and I'm done for the night with painting. But obviously I'm going to continue it later anyway. Here's some screencaps of how far I've got so far:

The sketch:



The painting at around the one hour mark:



The painting at just over 2, probably touching 3 hours. I lost track at this point:




* Now finished:




I decided to finalize it with G'mics Paint daub filter. Not by applying it to the entire painting, because that kills way to many details. My method is to paste the filtered layer on top of the original painting, then set it to the best layer mode (in this case overlay) at around 40% opacity to keep most of the detail showing through, with some minor colour correction.

Critique any way you like.

Your images seem to be posted incorrectly.

That site blocks image sharing.

Nice result.

What good is a dedicated image hosting site that blocks hosted images?

@David-C - Can you upload these images directly to GIMP Chat? We prefer to host images that are displayed here on GC because images on 3rd party hosting sites are subject to disappearing at any time.

You can use the image upload button or you can attach the images using the attachment feature of the board. The attachment dialog is located just below the submit button on the "Full Editor" screen.

Thanks!

Those are looking good enough to eat!!

I'll re upload them here, but I didn't get round to this thread until now. Though the images appear when I submitted them from that host. Weird.

I've now uploaded all 4 images using the forums image host.

That came out really nice David-C, good job.

Terrific, they sure look ready to eat. Kudo's David-C

I messed something up with the detail layers. Basically I applied too strong of a sharpening, causing an undesired pixel spray effect in a lot of areas. So I re-did the details from scratch, using more appropriate brushes, and a bit more refining. This time, I left the oil brush stroke texture out, so that all detail is visible. Final version:

That one is really nice too but I liked your first one better. I think on your latest one, there are too many spots that don't look as real as the first one. Just my opinion. I would buy either one of them.

I'm with Molly, I like the first one best without so many spots. Excellent, David!

I think the spots would be ok if they were smaller and the opacity turned way down.

Thanks all.

Totally agree. I overworked the revision of the detail layer, and the spots are a bit too big. The finger paint texture of the first one also makes it look more refined. I don't do as much still life as I need to. Need to get back in shape.