painting show and tell

 

Welcome to this week's painting post... I am taking the course Start your Art with two instructors daily for 14 days. 

I find I have little patience for the talk at the beginning of each video so I tend listen a little while I draw the speaker's portrait, then skip to any instruction they give

The sunflower painting came as a result of the teacher on the top right who encourages you to wet the paper, drop in color loosely, then layer more dynamic lines and color after that dries. 

I LOVE it... and when it went on my mantel exhibit space, I compared it to the last sunflower painting. I like them both but the layering of color is so much prettier to me. I add color, removed some with toweling. Yep, I tried this again outside when the wind shifted and we had an hour without so much smoke yesterday

DH and I poured some wine, he read while I painted what I saw

while not as pretty as the sunflower, it was a joy to paint. When I paint outside here in CO I note the paper dries almost instantly though so there is less drift.

 I liked the purple gray painted for concrete at the end of the session though...

AND dh looked up from his kindle and said, "Oh, geraniums" so I clapped that he recognized them!

One lesson was fun, very like me to see faces in nature, and to add whimsy...

more teacher portraits in the sketchbook. Sometimes that's all I get out of a lesson but I'm painting and really looking at a subject which is valuable
 

the next lesson taught me the value of doing swatches... holding them up to your subject so you can choose colors that are true if reality is important to you that is!

Now for some beauty in music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXBNlApwh0c 

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