This is the week 12 painting for Jed Dorsey’s Mini Painting Challenge at Acrylic University. The reference photo [from Mark Hadland] is from somewhere in the Colorado Rockies, I believe, and the painting is called “Let’s Take a Hike”. It’s painted on a 6×6 Claybord panel, toned in black first. I liked the Claybord better than Gessobord; what I read online is folks beefing that is shows the brushstrokes. Which, yeah, it does. But, in my case, so what? I’m just practicing, not doing commissioned work.

One thing, though — I need to do the trees and sky “my way”. (Which is — do the sky FIRST and then paint in the trees.) Doing it Jed’s way is fine for him, but for me it just looks like c–p.

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”.

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).

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!