September 25, 2023
Trying My Hand
I’m trying my hand at some approaches and techniques I don’t typically use. I’ve got my 30 x 30″ canvas prepped and ready to go with a background mix of phthalo green+ but I decided to play a bit in my sketchbook first on a much smaller scale. Very out of character when it comes to my painting life for me to take preliminary steps this way. My impatient usual = just go!
Taped off a square, got the background mix in place, chose brushes that I judged to be proportional to the rough sketch lines I wanted to lay down, stood an arm’s length away, held my brush at the end of the handle in a loose grip, dipped into a contrasting color for sketching purposes.
That’s it for today. Have a student coming momentarily.
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12 responses to “Trying My Hand”
Simone, I was JUST thinking about you a few minutes ago as I did food prep in my kitchen, and now here you are at my blog—hello, dear friend! Thank you for your recognition and appreciation of the energy and nature of the start of a painting. It is lovely for me, too, to pause here in this start.
Precisely, a package deal: beginning and middle at once. I’m remembering the old Certs advertising: It’s a breath mint! It’s a candy mint! Two, two, two mints in one! —— It’s a beginning! It’s the middle! Two, two, two paintings in one! Hahaha!
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Hahaha! xoxox
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