I can’t believe we’re already through week 11, almost 25% through this year challenge. Time flies! This is the week 11 painting for Jed Dorsey’s Mini Painting Challenge at Acrylic University. The name is “Roses are Fair”. (In my case, I should say, “Roses are Abstract”, ha-ha!)
6×6 panel, gray underpainting from a Raw Umber-Titanium White blend.
I definitely need more practice with roses!
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.
This painting came about because I had signed up for something on Ali Kay Studio’s website. I got a free paint-these-zinnias packet as a result, which included a reference photo, drawing template, supply list, and a photo of how Ali Kay did her own painting based off the reference.
I traced the template on to canvas, covered the pencil marks and did the value mapping in Payne’s gray (too dark, I think), and followed her process for underpainting (based on some of her YouTube videos). From what I can determine, she paints the complementary color — so the yellow flowers have a purple underpainting, and so on. On the whole, I think I went to dark on the Payne’s gray — not sure what color she uses — and in the past I’ve ignored pencil or charcoal marks (so I’ll continue to stick with that in the future).
I like Ali Kay’s style for portraits of kids and animals — not sure I’m sold for florals, so I went my own way and did my own thing. For better or worse. I am most satisfied with the flower pot, and using my brushstrokes to convey the cylindrical shape.
I felt that the proportions were off on my first attempt at the week 9 painting for Jed Dorsey’s Mini Painting Challenge at Acrylic University. And the blended colors looked too green. So, this is my second shot at the painting, and frankly, I am happier with this version.
This is the week 9 painting for Jed Dorsey’s Mini Painting Challenge at Acrylic University. It’s based on a photo he took at Cannon Beach in Oregon. I really liked painting this one, but I want to try it again, because I want more beach in the scene, and for the rocks to be a bit smaller. 6×6 canvas panel.
This painting was done on a 6×6 birch panel, prepared with gesso. It’s my version of Ali Kay‘s poinsettia painting. She’s an artist I recently discovered on Instagram who paints with acrylics, and I like her bold style.
This is my attempt at a paint-along called “Path to Lido” on the PaintCoach Patreon site. I was drawn to it about a year ago, and have wanted to paint it for some time, but as I painted, I got increasingly bored. My heart was not in it. So, one and done. This was on a 6×6 canvas panel.
This little 4×5 piece is based on a cropped version of a painting of zinnias by Jessica Green. I like the way she paints and was trying to imitate it.
I found out about this artist in the library of interviews available for members of Acrylic University, although she paints in oil.
Once upon a time, I had a pair of red shoes like this. My 8×8 painting is based on a photo by Emily Pottiger on Unsplash. I kept my palette limited.
Background color — Ultramarine Blue, Cad-free Yellow Medium, Titanium White
Shoes — Anthraquinone Red, Naphthol Red, Phthalo Green Blue Shade, Titanium White
There’s a few things I need to tidy up… the stiletto heel needs to be straighter; the drawing was better. The shadow of the leftmost shoe should be straighter, as should the divider line (for lack of a better phrase).
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