This is a painting of fake fruit and a fake radish. It was a very challenging subject to paint because I had to fight the tendency to try to make the fake fruit look real. The class ended before I could finish, so I ended up trying to finish it with a picture of the setup taken with my cellphone. I […]
Our instructor in my acrylic painting class gave everyone a little cutout from a magazine picture for us to practice color matching. She told us not to worry about accuracy in the composition, but get the colors as close as possible. My colors are pretty close and I actually restarted the whole painting to get […]
This was my second try at a chromatic gray study for my painting class. I think it turned out okay. It’s better than the last one. I just really struggle with the fast drying of acrylic paints. I got spoiled painting with oils this past year. I began this painting two nights ago when we […]
This was my homework assignment in my painting class (not my oil painting class). We were supposed to paint anything we wanted using chromatic grays. I did not use black, but I think I need to try again tomorrow. The samples shown in class were very muted paintings with a limited value range. I really […]
8×10″ oil on panel I probably should go back and refine this class piece. I spent about 2.5 hours on it. I showed up to class and the instructor was surprised. He had not expected to have any students and was cleaning his studio. Apparently, I never hit SEND when responding to his inquiry the […]
I began this painting in class and really want to finish it. My days are so full, I hardly have time to breathe. There just is a lot going on this and next week. I really need to get some of the last paintings I started completed!!
9×12″ oil on canvas board I finally signed up for a painting workshop. Normally it would be too expensive, but there were too many unfilled spaces and a deep discount was offered. Jim Wodark was the instructor and his theme was to be composition, my greatest weakness. I think I learned a lot. I have […]