I haven’t been doing art for a few days now, as I’ve been under the weather. I’m still way behind on Dianna Shyne’s “Cloud Challenge” at Acrylic University. Today is a rainy day so it was perfect for painting the #5 cloud challenge, which is of storm clouds, and based on a photo the artist took. This was rather fun!
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:
This is the week 6 painting for Jed Dorsey’s Mini Painting Challenge at Acrylic University. It’s based on a photo Dorsey took of a rocky beach at sunset. I used one of my last few 8×8 black canvases because Dorsey paints his version on a black background. (I think I’ve said this before, but I really struggle with a black background; it throws the colors/values off, and you need several coats of paint to hide the black say, against the sky).
I also struggle with beach rocks, and have a couple of PaintCoach Patreon lessons earmarked which focus on beach rocks that I need to do for more practice.
That said, this is my effort, and frankly, it looks quite abstract. Which is not necessarily terrible.
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.
This was week 3 for Jed Dorsey’s Mini Painting Challenge at Acrylic University. It’s based on a picture he took of a hazy morning with the grass full of dew, in an area near his home. It reminds me a lot of the English cottage landscape I did at Paint Coach Patreon.
This was done on a 6×6 canvas panel. I used the 3 primaries, plus black and white.
This was the third of the 3 mini practice paintings where we the students copy some of Jed’s paintings. In the next round, we copy bigger paintings which are more challenging. Then we move on to more detailed studies of subjects like color mixing, perspective, design/composition, etc. (All with practice paintings of course!)
I had bought some black 8×8 canvases during the holiday season so I used one of those rather than tone a white canvas with Mars Black. Same difference — I just don’t like the black canvas. It skews my sense of color. Ugh. I just want to paint all over it to cover it up!
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