This is the week 10 painting for Jed Dorsey’s Mini Painting Challenge at Acrylic University. The name is “Golden Vineyard”. I’m not sure where Dorsey got the photo, but he did his painting on a black canvas. I looked at the reference photo, and it seemed more golden to me, so I went with a yellow ochre background.

This is on a 6×6 canvas panel, a brand I haven’t used before (Yes! All Media cotton). I bought it at my local Jerry’s Artarama, and found it to be extraordinarily smooth, more similar to Ampersand’s Gessobord than the typical cotton panel. I’m undecided about it, as I certainly didn’t like Gessobord when I tried it last year. We’ll see.. I have 5 more panels to use.