This painting on a 9×12 canvas is based on a reference in Acrylic University. Unfortunately, the photographer’s name was not provided. I took the reference from a section on painting clouds, so that is the focus. I’m actually fairly pleased with how the clouds turned out.
This is a painting from a “Bloom” class by Jed Dorsey at Acrylic University. I haven’t finished it yet, because, honestly, I’m a bit bored with it and want to paint other things. But I’m posting it because I’ve FINALLY started painting again.
8×8 canvas panel.
A few weeks ago I watched one of the videos on the Acrylic University site. Jed Dorsey was painting a vase of sunflowers from a reference photo (likely his own). So, tonight, I felt like painting more sunflowers and decided to just wing it mostly from memory, doing my own thing rather than copying Jed’s work, or copying the reference photo.
This is the result. 10×10 canvas panel toned in burnt umber and white. Colors used were naphthol crimson, cadmium yellow, ultramarine blue, and a bit of Mars Black.
This was fun! I wasn’t trying for realism or polish, just playing with paint.
Well, I finished it. Am reasonably happy but not crazy about it. I found the pink undertone quite distracting; it really threw me off! And while I didn’t intend to paint over all the pink, it appears I did!
Done on a 10×10 canvas panel as a paint-along effort from Acrylic University‘s “Bloom with Jed” video class.
This 10×10 painting is one I’m doing as a paint-along effort from Acrylic University‘s “Bloom with Jed” paint-along video class.
The focus is on seeing the beauty in a gray, rainy day, of an ordinary (if not ugly, to my mind) marsh near a beach. But Jed points out ways to bring out the natural beauty via the painting — and of course, one way of doing it is using a magenta (PV19) background and letting bits of that tone shine through. We’ll see how it goes.
Last time I said I was undecided about how to finish this daffodil painting from Acrylic University‘s “Bloom with Jed” paint-along video class.
I ended up going with my favorite default… cerulean blue mixed with titanium white for a light sky color. (In the photo it doesn’t look all that much different than the version with a still-white canvas panel!)
The reference photo was taken by Jed Dorsey.
I love daffodils, and this 10×10 painting is based off a reference photo from Acrylic University‘s “Bloom with Jed” paint-along video class.
Still need to do the background, and am undecided how to proceed. Jed tones his canvas black, and then does a kind of gray & brown shadow mosaic — bits of black peeking through — so that it almost looks like a stone wall of a background. But that’s not my speed.
The reference photo was taken by Jed Dorsey.
This is Week #7 (called “Boathouses”) of “Travels Near & Far” — a mini painting challenge at Acrylic University, and the artist is Dianna Shyne who also took the reference photo used. As with the week #1 work, the photo is of Prince Edward Island, Canada.
This was painted on a 6×6 canvas panel, and the swirly brushstrokes in green — meant to represent grass! — remind me of some of Van Gogh’s swirly painting (but not in good way, ha-ha!) To the right is supposed to be a boat, but since I painted it in the same colors as the water, it now appears “lost” or, rather, more like a bridge.
The thing is, I’m so focused on painting other things, I don’t care enough to paint it in, say, black and white so that it appears as a boat.
I painted this dog on the sofa based on a reference photo by Alyssa Fleischer, part of a January 2022 “painting party” at Acrylic University. It is also viewable on YouTube here.
This was painted on an 8×8 canvas panel. The dog was done in Titanium Buff (aka Unbleached Titanium (PW 6:1) and Burnt Umber. For the window panes I used the same — but added a touch of Mars Black. (I am going to go back and redo the panes, painting with a straight-edge 🙂
The greenery base was Chromium Green with some Ultramarine Blue, Titanium White, and Cad-free Yellow Light. The sofa I painted using Liquitex BASICS blue-gray and since it’s a “student” color, it darkened a whole lot after drying, but I think I’ll leave it as is.
