Could you describe,if possible, your shortcut method(maybee another free online lesson) for this painting? I would love to be able to make a painting without the dead layer because it's time consuming.

As regards to the music notes, it would've been wise to look at actual songs. I would've done the same thing because I can't read music too.

Quote and will kindly ask you to share with us some of your images and tell us about technique you are using.
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Alexie,

Thank you for the kind words about my website.

Yes I will share. A month ago I went to the midwest for vacation. I have a painting planned of rider and horse from a compilation of photo's I took at Bryce Canyon National Park. When I begin work I will share the stages of the painting and ask for feedback on the piece.

I look forward to the next installment of your painting.

Carl

Unless this is your client's actual piano, and he wants you to use that... I would have found an antique piano or at least copied the keyboard from same. Old ivory keys have a beautiful yellowed patina that would have allowed you to get more of a sense of depth and form in the keys. And it would have fit into the antiquery feel of the rest of the painting, too.

Nice job, by the way. STILL envious of your skill.

Now to find the time (with an eleven month old) to get painting myself. Got a neat idea for a still life, though...

My 2 cents

Louis

The painting on the whole is very good specially the keyboard. i have a small thought. when u paint glass, there are some areas which are shown in white. This does indicate that there is some little bit of light in the room which is being reflected by the glass. The same feature can be shown on the piano because it too has smooth and shiny finish. Thereby it will help the viewer to get a better distinguished look of the piano. Just a small suggestion. Painting as such is wonderful!!!!!Good work!

Best wishes
v_murthy

Quote Here is the page with musical notes in the progress.
I need help to correct readable mistakes.
If anybody can read this music notes?

Although I am not an artist, I have spent 8 years involved in music. The suggestions provided by Kookie_Jarr, while technically correct are rather difficult if you don't understand music composition.

I have a different suggestion that would require a change to only one small area of your painting.

The suggestion is, remove the Clef from the third line of the upright piece of music. (In case you don't know, the clef is that big "S" shaped symbol found a bit left of center on the third line).

You see, a Clef is used in combination with the time signature at the beginning of the piece. The time signature is shown as a fraction 3/4, 4/4, 6/8,. The top number designates the number of beats per measure, and the bottom number tells you which type of note is equal to one beat.

Typically, a clef would be found in the middle of a piece, only if the time signature was going to change.

If you remove the clef, and do not designate a time signature anywhere else on the musical composition, then there is nothing about the music that can be seen as right or wrong....

Without the time signature, the number of notes per measure are unimportant.

Please tell me - how do you place thin lines on your canvas? Are they done in oil? Ink? Pencil? I am thinking of the lines and notes on the sheets of music in your 36x48 still life.

In general, how does one achieve different tonalities of burnt umber in the umber layers? Is the Burnt Umber oil thinned with medium? Or is it just applied more or less sparingly and blended?
Elmer Lammon

Burnt Umber layers you perform just like a watercolor, but sometimes you can apply the dry brush technique to.