Today's project entailed painting the same kind of tulip still life with a twist. We had to look at the color wheel- any color you see in the still life must be painting in it's opposite on the wheel.
Seems easy enough, right?
Here's the still life:
Well, yeah..sure. I mean yellow's opposite is blue-violet. Cool. Yellow-greens opposite is some of ted-violet. But all the variations thereof...YIKES.
I muddled through it and got favorable results despite the challenge:
I dig it.
Monday we are to bring a gesso-ed board and gel mediums for some more abstract work!!! I'm ridiculously excited.
In other news, I indeed applied for that scholarship. I gathered my portfolio, got my two letters of recommendation, wrote the essay, got my transcript, and VOILA! I've actually taken a step in the direction of an intentional person trying for a real goal. I'm a freaking art major. Weird.
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