If at first I don’t succeed…at painting a landscape, maybe the thousandth attempt will be good. I’ve been watching the videos of Stuart Davies, a tonalism landscape painter (nowadays) and trying to soak up some techniques. Today, I tried an afternoon landscape: Doesn’t really work on absorbent paper with leftover quick-drying acrylic. Maybe tomorrow I’ll… Continue reading Watching landscape painting
Category: Art
Open tulips
This is what I’ve been working on: If it’s incredibly bright pink, the monitor isn’t showing it well. I’ve read somewhere that quinacridone pigments don’t photograph well. The flowers are really a more subdued magenta.This is on eucalyptus hardboard MDF. It’s rather large, which is unfortunate, because I got extreme fatigue. Turns out I have… Continue reading Open tulips
Practice freckles
Practice on cardboard — in a dimly lit room. When I brought it into good lighting, I saw all the “dirt” instead of shadows, etc. But, it’s practice, so I didn’t care. I looked at this reference photo: https://www.pikrepo.com/fthqk/boy-s-facebut didn’t try to get an exact likeness.That’s such a cute kid. I love freckles.Of all the… Continue reading Practice freckles
Cheap paper
The paper is a Bienfang spiral pad of 40 sheets of mixed media paper, 9in. x 12in., 90 lb./146gsm. It costs around 16 pennies per sheet (U.S.). It’s really flimsy, but I brushed some matte medium onto it and that stiffened it. Enough so that I was able to practice on it. Actually, it’s flat… Continue reading Cheap paper
Young drake
This is the young drake at 18 weeks. As an aside, his mother just finished her first egg-laying year and I recorded 346 eggs from her!!! So spectacular. I don’t consider this super finished, but I intend to paint that drake again soon.I started with fast-drying paint with matte medium and transitioned.The Golden Open has… Continue reading Young drake
Acrylic experiment
I’m experimenting with acrylics as a quick start-and-stop, water-based paint. The mixes of pigment and Blickrylic gel are staying wet in baby food jars. Yay! I got a starter set of Golden Open, traditional colors. And a jar of Open gel (it’s quite transparent). 2 tubes of Golden Heavy Body, just to see what they’re… Continue reading Acrylic experiment
3month Derwent Lightfast Test
Lightfastness test of Derwent Lightfast color pencils, 72 color set.Photo taken with indoor warm LED lighting, open curtains, cell phone camera. I had to adjust the photo in Gimp. While in Gimp, I added a note that the color changes on the left edge don’t really exist. It’s an artifact of the photo.3 months on… Continue reading 3month Derwent Lightfast Test
Plant or petroleum
This was meant as a practice piece on paper I had already done something on. The vase says “The Lover” Japan on the bottom. It’s a lovely vase, but I’ve simplified it.I experimented with acrylic mixed into casein binder (homemade) and just acrylic in certain spots. And colored pencils.My son thought the blue table was… Continue reading Plant or petroleum
Daylily
I tried to mix some tempera grassa, but I can never get the mayonnaise consistency.Knowing that I shouldn’t, I used that for a background to a planned colored pencil drawing.The paint stayed gooey.I got out an old starter set of water-mixable oils and painted my daylily and background. I just didn’t want to throw it… Continue reading Daylily
CP Goat
Source photo by Gábor B. from Pixabay So, I have now tried a cool color scheme. Of course, there are never going to be as many cool colors as warm colors. I’m not truly through with this, but my mind is numb from drawing a million strokes. I just want to sit back, look at… Continue reading CP Goat
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