This painting was done on an 6×8 canvas panel (Blick Premier — which I really like, actually), and is based off a 2021 “Paint Along” done by Ali Kay of the Fresh Paint art class site. I think she calls it an aperol spritzer — but compari comes to mind for me.
The thumbnail looks better, to my eye.
I wanted to work on the daffodils because they’re just a blur in my last painting. I did this on an orange-toned 5×5 wood panel, and actually traced the reference image (which I got from Ali Kay‘s Fresh Paint site) on to the panel, adding most of the detail. I had hoped it would help. Alas, it’s still a case of garbage in-garbage out.
I debated even posting this, but decided to go ahead, as I understand from my classes that painting is really all about solving problems. As a beginner, I’m definitely not doing a good job of solving this one! I’m posting an over-saturated copy of the zoomed-in reference image I used as a means of comparison.
I intend to paint more daffodils; perhaps I’ll try a frontal view first. And then tackle this one again. It’s easy enough to see errors in this comparison.
This painting done on an 8×8 canvas is from a reference photo at Fresh Paint, an online art class/community led and taught by Ali Kay. In her lesson for this painting, which I scanned briefly, she didn’t mention the source of the photo. It may have been one of her own; I searched Pixabay and Unsplash, and did not find anything similar.
Although I used the template from Fresh Paint and traced it on to the canvas, I still didn’t get the flowers right. Will have to try again.
Earlier in January I watched a paint-along by Jed Dorsey of Acrylic University for their Bloom Membership level. He painted this scene from one of his own photos, and his painting was striking in its use of color, reflecting a golden sky from the sun setting behind the trees in the distance.
I was all set to try that myself. But when I downloaded the reference photo and a photo of his painting, on a whim, I set the saturation to zero — and found I absolutely LOVED the black and white version. So I decided to try painting it to play with the values.
This was done strictly as a study, on an 8×8 wood panel that I had gessoed a while back. The sky, in fact, is simply the white gesso. (It’s more yellow here in the photo than it is in real life.) I deliberately painted the snow thick just for the heck of it.
Today I tried painting a Christmas ornament in ArtRage Vitae, and I used as a reference a painting by Teddi Parker, which you can see here.
As with the sketch of Simba, I struggled a bit. In the Simba drawing, I used the felt pen tool; in this case I used the square flat brush, and widened the stroke.
It should be obvious that Teddi’s painting (master copy) is on the right.
The funny thing is, it actually felt like I was painting, despite using my finger tip! But I want to get back to the brush tomorrow.
This was painted on a 12×12 canvas panel, and is based on a paint-along work being done by Dianna Shyne in Acrylic University for a series of holiday / winter scenes this month.
This was fun because I did it on my own using the reference photo, not a photo of her painting, and not watching the video (which is not yet available).
This was painted on a 12×12 canvas panel, and is based on a paint-along work done by Dianna Shyne in Acrylic University for a winter challenge back in December 2023 (before I had joined AU as a member).
I started out following her, but then I gave up and focused just on the reference photo for guidance.
My husband thought they were Christmas lights until I had completed the tags. (That said, I’m now working on a piece that IS of Christmas lights, part of this year’s winter challenge. Hopefully, I’ll have it done before Dianna’s paint-along this Friday.)
This is the week 27 painting for Jed Dorsey’s Mini Painting Challenge at Acrylic University. It’s called “Desert Sky” and is based on a reference photo by Joe Cook. 6×6 canvas panel, untoned.
I’ll be working on some of the previous weeks’ mini paintings in the next few days, skipping ones I’m not fired up about.
It’s been 7 weeks since I’ve picked up a paintbrush… just busy doing other things, (like reading for a book club, Ancestry DNA analysis of my mom’s matches, and some day trips w/ hubby). I had this red-toned 8×8 canvas lying around so decided to do a grayscale version of a coffee cup (image from Unsplash).
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