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.
This painting was done on an 8×8 canvas panel, and is based off a reference photo on Ali Kay‘s Fresh Paint site. I followed the reference, not Ali’s process. What I like the best is the decorative foam.
Okay, these don’t look too much like apples! This painting was done on an 8×8 canvas panel, and is based off a reference photo on Ali Kay‘s Fresh Paint site.
I got rather “lost” following Ali’s process layering multiple colors that really didn’t relate — in my opinion — to the actual reference. Oh well, moving on…
This painting was done on an 8×10 canvas, and is based off a reference photo on Ali Kay‘s Fresh Paint site. Ali will demo her version of this stack of pancakes and blueberries in a few days; I wanted to do my own version).
I’m happiest with the blueberries, which I painted with Anthraquinone Blue straight from the tube, Ultramarine Blue, and Ultramarine Blue with Titanium White. For the syrup, I used a glazing medium with Liquitex’s Raw Sienna.
I outlined these lilacs on an 8×10 canvas over a year ago (based on a template found on Ali Kay‘s Fresh Paint site.) Finally got around to painting it — using the reference photo Ali Kay provided, and NOT copying her style at all.
Overall, I’m more satisfied with the lilacs — which put me in mind of spring in New England during my college years — than with the daffodils in the vase I did a while back.
This is the last of three cute kids-playing-in-the-snow painting lessons on Ali Kay‘s Fresh Paint site. This one is called “Sledding Friends” and it, too, is painted on 8×8 canvas. I toned it with Golden’s “India Yellow Hue” and matte medium. As with the “Building a Snowman” painting, I referred only to the reference photo, and not to Ali’s painting or her online video.
I think I prefer the India Yellow Hue to the Yellow Ochre for toning; it’s more mellow. (It is also much more expensive than Yellow Ochre, unfortunately.) The Golden Paints website states that it is a mixture of Benzimidazolone Yellow (PY 175), Nickel Azo (PY 150) and a Quinacridone Red (PR 206). Weirdly, it is “modern mixture replacing the pigment originally produced in the early 1800’s by collecting urine from oxen fed only mango leaves”. (!)
The outfit of the boy in front is painted with Anthraquinone Blue and Ultramarine Blue, tinted with white. The boy in back is painted with Burnt Umber Light, Mars Black, and white as necessary. The snow is tinted with the India Yellow Hue, and, in places, with Ultramarine Blue.
I painted the snow quite thickly, which was fun!
I’m calling this 8×8 painting finished — and I quite like it. I made the girl’s mitten pink, her coat a basic red, and finished the snowman. I left the boy’s mittens alone.
Just to keep kosher with credits, this painting is from a reference image I got on Ali Kay‘s Fresh Paint site.
This is a painting I’m doing on an toned-in-yellow-ochre 8×8 canvas that is one of three cute kids-playing-in-the-snow painting lessons on Ali Kay‘s Fresh Paint site. Unlike the “Rolling Snow” painting I just finished, I have not referred to Ali’s painting or to her video at all. I’m just using her reference photo.
Left to do is to finish the snowman, obviously, and I want to adjust the shape of its head. The girl’s jacket I’ll complete in a lighter brighter red than the red used for the creases and shadows. I had planned to do pink and white striped mittens; I’ve decided to make the mittens all pink.
The boy is basically done, but once I’ve got the snowman complete I will come back and layer more yellow on to the boy’s sleeves and collar, so it doesn’t get lost in the toned background. I may need to adjust the mitten color so it is more clearly a sky blue.
Okay, it’s done! One thing I’m not totally satisfied with is that the darkest green of the outfit looks almost black. I’m not sure if it was my color choice (“Forest Green” — a premixed color — by Chroma Atelier), or if it’s because I had painted that value map with such a dark color.
It was an interesting experiment to follow along (more or less) with the painting lesson on Ali Kay‘s Fresh Paint site. Next up will be a painting of two kids building a snowman.
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