This was a good portion of today’s work. After a lot of sketching I finally laid out my new painting, this time on cradled wood, not canvas. Once I sketched in the entire plan it was time to choose paints. Test, mix, compare, eliminate. Once done with all this, I make careful notes for posterity as to exact type of paint and medium.
I wish I could show you more but don’t as a rule when I’m working on a commission. You’ll see the painting itself soon!
Thank you, Roger Dean, for being a lifelong inspiration to me. I’ve been working on a new painting. This time, charcoal cartoon and a thin layer of Payne’s Grey once I got it al adjusted. Today the canvas watched and waited as I worked through the color scheme, this one something I’ve always wanted to do, colors based on Roger Dean’s artwork on Uriah Heep’s Magician’s Birthday! This one’s going to be fun, now that the lion’s share of my work is done. Just add color!
Luscious color testing palette. The painting I’m currently working on is going to be REALLY colorul! My color choices are about half the paints laying here. For this piece I’m going to follow Matisse for he never liked to sully his colors and Maxfield Parrish because he put down layers and layers of glazings for that nice Parrish glow.
These three brands of paint are by FAR my favorites! Of course Sennelier has been around for years and years, and Matisse, they’re absolutely luscious. Some of their beauties are not duplicated in any other brand, nor do others even come close. However, that young upstart, Golden Fluid Acrylics, is going to give everyone a run for their money. They are absolutely color saturated and I am IN LOVE with three in particular, Quinacridone Azo Gold, Teal and Green Gold, all three of which will make it into my upcoming painting, including Senellier’s Ultramarine Blue Light and Matisse’s Primary Blue, which also is peerless.
I could talk about color all day.
Such yummy stuff. Thank you, Lord, for making me an artist!
I’ve done quite a lot of layouts, always in a single color. This time I decided to celebrate the color wheel and just lay down those colors (sorry, purple, I owe you one.) Of note, gorgeous ribbons one of my students gave me on a cool gift, my metal embossed seahorse mounted on a box and a colorful swag I recently made which I toss over all kinds of things to brighten things up and celebrate. Oh, and my coolest ever striped purse from Target. And my cheap sunglasses. (These be no rhinestone shades.)
I love color so much that even my color testing charts end up with art on top of them. Actually, I think they make a good base for art, and would love to have a dress that looks like this. What do you think?
Here’s a nice closeup of the cool color area; ooohhh... makes me feel peaceful.
I like this little hotspot too. Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘hot spot,’ huh? Hmmm... maybe that’s what I should name this little piece. Done! Hot Spot! Yep. That’s how an artist’s mind works!
(If you have any hot spots, I can paint them for you. Just ask!
My floor is covered with my morning’s work; I have to quit because 1) there is no more room to walk, and 2) watercolor paper is expensive! Moving my students into watercolors now. Teachers do a lot more homework than their students, trust me on that one.
