Both painting yesterday in class and today at home, I have felt so free and I think it’s opened me up a little to seeing things I don’t normally see. The assignment has been to do one stroke per color, so I’ve been enjoying trying to get as much mileage out of each paint stroke as possible which has meant both being strategic and just going for it!
While I think playing with color, overall, is one of the reason I’m drawn to painting and using a limited palette, I’m also really having fun seeing how many ways I can make a size 10 bright brush twist around places I want to go.
After fighting with myself all last week, this is such a welcome shift.
Here are the two paintings from class, yesterday and last night’s painting.
Ahhhhh. The blue shadow of the paper bouncing up on the orange was so pronounced it was easy to see. When I got this one home, I did work to fix this a bit, so it conforms to the shape better.
This is last night's painting. I should have stopped a bit earlier, since I did start to get a little fiddlely, but I was having too much fun.
This might be a good way to thing about approaching the "base" layer of my paintings, since one of my bad habits is to delve into detail too quickly!
This pear is past it's prime and I think I need to buy another pear. Mixing up Pthalo Blue (Green Shade), Hansa Yellow Opaque, and Quin Magena into the "dirty" yellow-green of a pear has added to the fun so far this week.
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