So far this week I've only had one opportunity to sit down and paint. Well, let's rephrase that, I only took one opportunity to paint. I took plenty of opportunities to clean my painting area, so that's good, I guess. I have class again tomorrow and between then and now I have bills to pay, soup to make for Bingo, girls to take to basketball practice, piano lessons, and a beef meeting. Oh, and I got called in to work between 12 and 3. So, maybe tonight at 9:00 I'll find time to paint again.
Here's the painting I started in class last week. I decided it wasn't worth the time, effort or paint ot finish it. I had a #8 round brush to work with, and it was much to small for the job. The canvassette is 16x18 or some such crazy too big size.
For this second painting I cut the canvassette in half. No use wasting paper. What I found on this painting is that I need to not be afraid to use the dark. The final paint applied was the dark on the left edges of the fruit. (This is an orange and a lemon, not a tomato and a balloon! Although I will admit it's hard to tell) That little bit of darkest paint helped tremendously.
I'm still struggling with the fast drying acrylic. It drives me batty that I can't go back to an area and apply water to change it. I need to learn to layer.
I am eager to go to class tomorrow, just wish I had spent more time painting this week.
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Yesterday while working in the art gallery and looking around I wished I understood more the differences in acrylics and oils and pastels so that I could at least discuss the work with the customers. I am hoping your new blog may be just what I need to learn a few helpful things!
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