In response to this painting at class yesterday, my professor actually said, "Ok...what happened?"
Classic case of over-thinking. Wonderful example of struggling through a piece. This looks like crap. I'll bet you can't even tell what I was intending. This is an all-white still life in which we weren't allowed to use any black to make up the grays. Seemed to be something I'd be fine at, but, as it turns out, I couldn't get grey if it killed me.
If you mix blue/red/yellow in the right doses, you get a neutral that can be mixed with white. All grey tends to lean toward warm or cool, and one should be able to get there with proper mixing. Assuming you know how to do this. Which, obviously, I don't...YET!!
I'm supposed to finish this by tomorrow, on top of priming some sheets of Bristol paper with my very small amount of Gesso...I REALLY need to get to Utrecht and get some supplies. (too bad its and hour and a half from here...totally worth it, though.)
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