Well, I couldn’t stand that last painting for Jed Dorsey’s Mini Painting Challenge at Acrylic University, so I redid it using a 6×6 white canvas panel, and sketching out the rocks with willow charcoal. Oh, and then I used (for the first time) acrylic gouache (an intro kit from Holbein). I love the matte effect.
The new painting is far from perfect, but on the whole, I consider it an improvement to the original (comparison below).
And here’s the comparison:
Trying to catch up with the series of mini paintings… This is the week 5 painting for Jed Dorsey’s Mini Painting Challenge at Acrylic University. It’s based on a photo Dorsey took in a local state park in, I believe, Washington. Take that back, while the original photo reference was provided, the lesson was actually based on the painting (called “Dappled Light”) he did based on the reference photo.
This was done on a 6×6 canvas panel, which was painted black. The only colors used were the 3 primaries.
I’m way behind on this series of mini paintings, as week #6 just dropped on Friday. So, this is the week 4 painting for Jed Dorsey’s Mini Painting Challenge at Acrylic University. It’s based on a picture he took in the Canadian Rockies. To me it’s similar to week #1.
This was done on a 6×6 canvas panel. As with the other weeks, I used the 3 primaries, plus black and white.
Today I got the email that Week 6’s cloud lesson is available… so I hustled to paint Week 4’s painting! So here is Week 4’s effort for Dianna Shyne’s “Cloud Challenge” at Acrylic University. The reference photo was for the setting sun’s rays breaking through the clouds. (I wish I could share, for comparison sake, but it’s a copyrighted photo by the artist.)
I’m getting behind on the cloud paintings, and remembering to post them! Here, for Week 3 of Dianna Shyne’s “Cloud Challenge” at Acrylic University, is my effort. The reference photo for this class was a sunset over a body of water.
The portrait lesson from my “Painting Portraits with Karl Staub” class on Sktchy is now complete. If I had it to do again, I wouldn’t use the Opera Rose/Raw Sienna mixture. I’d go with a pale umber or a light yellow ochre. Or even just a plain white canvas! Anyway, I am mostly satisfied with it — the eyes are better than I’ve done before!
I skipped a lot of the blue and the white highlights the teacher used in the online class; the red background of my canvas made it look like she had red highlights in her hair (as opposed to the black tresses the actual model has in the photo reference used.)
This work-in-progress is again from my “Painting Portraits with Karl Staub” class on Sktchy. I am doing this one in acrylic on a 8×10 canvas. The background is a mix of Opera Rose (Winsor & Newton Galeria) which is a garish bubble gum pink and Raw Sienna. The face was drawn on to the painted canvas, and I’ve done the first layer in Burnt Umber (following along).
This work is from my “Painting Portraits with Karl Staub” class on Sktchy. I’ve finally gotten around to beginning that on-demand class. The idea was to use gouache — which I don’t have — so I used watercolor. I used the 140 lb. cold-pressed paper in my “Visual Journal” (bought months ago and never used until now.) The paper buckled — ugh. Oh well, it was all in fun anyway.
Watercolor and ink. 9×12. #Sktchy #PortraitswithKarl
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