I’ve completed the Fresh Paint pumpkin and am ready to move on from the Halloween theme. Nearer the actual date, I’ll post a group of all the Halloween paintings I’ve done
Pumpkin… All Done
Author: cathmary1030
Black Cat… All Done… Painting #300
This is my 300th painting, for better or worse, since I started painting in February 2023.
I’m only posting the final photo, as I spent a lot of time between my last Fresh Paint black cat post and this one painting interim colors that ended up getting covered up by the black that I had to repaint. Altogether too much layering, in my opinion. That might work for fluid acrylics, but it’s a waste with heavy body. We started out as a black cat, then went blue and red, then brown and purple, and then finally black again.
But, hey, to each their own in style. Live and learn. And I am learning it’s my style. (Though I think the instructor’s version looks totally cool.)
Peppermints… All Done!
I completed the Fresh Paint peppermints painting today; here it is. I followed the instructor’s methodology far more closely for this painting than I usally do.
Peppermint Candies.. the Messy Middle
I’ve been focused on the autumn paintings (black cat, pumpkin, apples) but took some time to put paint down on this image from the Fresh Paint class of two unwrapped peppermint candies. It is still a work in progress.
Apples in a Tree… I just got lost!
Well, I finished it. I’m satisfied with my choice of colors, but I just got lost in the shapes. Likely due to how I traced the image. I’m not sure the value mapping helped me, meaning at first I followed along with the Fresh Paint class (video), but then I broke away and just used the reference image. I should have stuck with one method. Maybe.
All in all, this looks better in a thumbnail. I’m calling it done, though, and moving on.
Black Cat… Halfway Done!
Yes, it’s another WIP from a Fresh Paint lesson (although I’m diverging from the color choices of the instructor to some degree.) For one thing, I went pack and painted over the Quinacridone Magenta with my Naphthol Red, as my magenta looked magenta pink, while the instructor’s video shows what to my eyes is plain ol’ red.
And I skipped the instructor’s Phthalo Blue/Quinacridone Magenta combo for my favorite Anthraquinone Blue (PB60) (which reads as a black-blue straight out of the tube).
Pumpkin… the Messy Middle
More WIP from Fresh Paint as I juggle from painting to painting. (The pumpkin is being painted on a 8×8 canvas panel.)
The photo on the left is truer in color; the one on the right had a desk lamp shining right on it from above.
Seasonal Paintings in Progress #2
Still juggling several paintings at once, mostly focused on the fall season, and for now, I’m following the Fresh Paint method (lots of paint layering, and lots of watery paint).
The idea is not just value mapping, but ultimately allowing pops of color (usually complementary) to show alongside the final layers of paint.
Seasonal Paintings in Progress
All of these are from reference photos at Fresh Paint. I am painting a pumpkin, some apples on a tree, and some peppermint candies. The first step (purely optional of course) is value mapping. All of these are painted on 8×8 canvas panels.
