Green Apples.. Round One

February 22, 2024February 22, 2024 | cathmary1030

This is another paint-along from PaintCoach’s Patreon page. I painted what I thought I saw, not what I actually saw. “Green” apples are green, right? Wrong. They’re mostly yellow. The image from Adobe Photoshop Essentials shows the darkest green as being mostly an olive color. (Actually, with photos the way they are, the darkest areas showed up as black, so I “color-picked” the edges of the shadow.)

Anyway, this image testing came AFTER my first attempt here — and the quinacridone magenta wash, and Payne’s gray outline to start did not help anything. Ugh.

Guacamole.. Work in progess

February 21, 2024February 20, 2024 | cathmary1030

I’m working on “Guacamole” — another paint-along from PaintCoach’s Patreon page. Here’s a few in-progress photos.

Tomatoes.. From Paintcoach Patreon

February 20, 2024March 9, 2024 | cathmary1030

Today I painted a pair of tomatoes based on a 2021 post at PaintCoach‘s Patreon page. This was done on a 6×8 canvas panel.

52 Mini Paintings Challenge: Week #8

February 19, 2024February 17, 2024 | cathmary1030

This is the week 8 painting for Jed Dorsey’s Mini Painting Challenge at Acrylic University. It’s based on a photo he took near the Tetons in Wyoming. He called it “Late Light Shed”. I enjoyed painting this one. As usual, it’s the 3 primaries, black and white, but I did “cheat” a little by using some of Liquitex Basics Blue Gray Blue “convenience color”.

52 Mini Paintings Challenge: Week #7

February 18, 2024February 17, 2024 | cathmary1030

This is the week 7 painting for Jed Dorsey’s Mini Painting Challenge at Acrylic University. It’s based on a photo of the Swiss Alps. I painted this on a 6×6 canvas panel, with a toned background of a neutral brown (made with Red Oxide, Cad-free Yellow Medium, and Ultramarine Blue).

Young Lady in Grayscale

February 17, 2024February 15, 2024 | cathmary1030

More drawing and black paint using an Unsplash photo by Ronny Sison on Unsplash. 8×10 canvas.

More Clouds

February 16, 2024February 15, 2024 | cathmary1030

Since I’m on a cloud kick, I took some of my own photos of clouds, and am starting to paint some of them, focusing on keeping edges as soft as possible with acrylic paint. The blue sky is a mix of cerulean blue, ultramarine blue and some white. The trees were done in raw umber. 6×8 canvas panel.

Cloud Challenge #8 – Acrylic University

February 15, 2024February 11, 2024 | cathmary1030

This painting is the final one of Dianna Shyne’s “Cloud Challenge” at Acrylic University. It’s called “Silver Lining”. The sky is a mix of Cerulean Blue (PB35), Ultramarine Blue (PB29) and white. I find the Cerulean Blue (at least by this brand — Charvin — to be quite transparent, which was unexpected. 6×6 canvas panel.

Cloud Challenge #7 – Acrylic University

February 14, 2024February 11, 2024 | cathmary1030

This painting is called “Sunset Streaks” from Dianna Shyne’s “Cloud Challenge” at Acrylic University. I messed up because I spritzed the canvas panel ahead of time, and then I applied the blue over the wet orangey-yellow, which made a dark green rather than the blue I wanted. After it dried, though, the blue just didn’t work.. it needed to be a clean, clear blue.