Acrylics class #4

Today we did more short paintings of primary colored still life, and watched a short painting demonstration by my professor (on whom I have a non-sexual crush).

It was great to be REALLY shown how someone experienced starts a painting. And she showed us some little tricks about managing the paint on your palette, the problems of yellow paint, etc. I'm eating it up!!!

Here's today's 20 minute painting on Bristol primed with Gesso:


I like parts of this. The time limit does just that- it limits the ability to fix anything or add detail, but it's such a great challenge to have to get the info down accurately (or convincingly, at least). I like the sphere- or sphere-ish thing. I like the color combo. I don't mind my bottles. The cone needs help. The blue here is not accurate to the blue in real life on the form- this is Cyan and it's probably closer to Phthalo Blue...oh well.

Our homework is to paint 3 value scales using 10 one-inch square progressing from white to black in blue, yellow and red. I'm sure it's harder than it sounds.