Never wear blue readers when you paint. Lots of fast slapping paint around. And splattering water to make dots in the damp paint. Then painting again.
Arches 280# cold press paper
Well who knew I would be painting rocks? But I did. I liked it so much I did two. Another Shopkeeparty class.
And then I took another longer class from David and his friend Bob Ross today. Another crazy fun class. He sweetened the class by giving a 20% discount. Now I am thinking abt buying the video. 😳😳😩
The first layer. Quin gold Andrew’s turquoise alizarin cobalt. Maybe ultramarine?! You can watch the cideo too on Shopkeepartys YouTube channel. The photo. Just those plain rocks they use in landscaping yes those. If you wet them they are actually colors. Who knew!!The splattering. And striping. The second one on Hahnamuhle 140 Cezanne. And yes I wore the blue readers again like a dummy. Then I took them off and returned them to Costco. Nowhere on the wrapper did it say they turned everything yellow. But truly why didn’t I take them off. This one is better BUT just think what it would look like if I took off my blue readers DUH!!
Two for one. So this one counts for Friday too. Off to Atlanta tomorrow for the next week. plenty on my phone that you have not seen so I can continue my knitting.
Hate to leave this morning view out my back window but needs musts. Off I go tomorrow.
Don’t we wish we could?! So ready to go somewhere NOW! I hear you can’t go to Australia til the end of the year unless you do a 14 day quarantine in your room you get to pay for. No leaving it. Eeek. Paint along with Vladislav Yesileyev
Anyway here’s the photo.
One of those cafes we all know and love with the cute cane chairs. At least I think they are cane.
Margaret done for the day. xoxoxox hoping she will get this one painted and then finish the Atlanta one. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
So good. It’s terrible to have a fresh strawberry stand less than two miles from my house. And lots of other good fresh veggies like corn -delicious- and fresh local spinach and lettuce to name a few. Most beautiful fresh onions I have ever seen complete with tops. Pulled that morning.
I left the house with $20 in cash in my pocket. by the time I went to pay for my items it was gone. No check and they do not take credit cards which I had plenty of.
A very kind man paid for mine when I told the lady I would run back to the house and find it or a check. Wow!! Thanks mystery man. His story is the pencil writing in the background. Had to commemorate the event.
Anyway Stillman and Birn Epsilon or hmm is it a Beta? heavy paper compared to the Alpha that I usually use. Uniball micro pen. American Journey watercolors.
Well maybe …in the gates but waiting for the race to start. Hoping not to be an also ran.
The sketch kind of sort of done. Peachtree Road. The cars need some more work and I think I will add some more people.
Maybe. Half sheet Hahnemuhle 15×20” 140# roughThe Value sketch
Can I just call this done?!
This is my primary picture I am using. I have a ton of photos of the Fox. I snap them when traffic backs up at the light or just put the phone on the dash and take a surreptitious pic or two.
Using this one to add the tall background building. I think it could be a good painting too. That bright sunlight and great shadows in it. Currently looking at it upside down to see if anything outrageous stands out. Sometimes they do. Like no focal point. The right hand tower of the Morrish influenced Fox will be my focal point.
Try upside down. You will see it works.
On another subject. New cat on the back porch. Eeek. Worse my cats who are bigger than it are afraid of it and run when it tries to eat their food. Dummies don’t know they are suppose to run it off. Sigh.
In the meantime some good news. Still like this painting. Might be my new fav. Hurrah. I didn’t change a thing today.
I actually like this so far. The morning will tell. Paint along with Vladislav Yesileyev
The value sketch The photo First wash
Yellow ochre cobalt and alizarin This layer will eventually disappear or appear to be white.
Sky wash cerulean instead of cobalt. Otherwise the same colors. Yellow ochre alizarin and neutral tint My terrible blotchy trees that I dry brushed. Colors cobalt Dioxzine purple yellow ochre for the purple color. Indigo and cad yellow w a bit of burnt Sienna for the greener colors. Well zap a lot more done. Too much to tell u even a bit abt it but omgoodness that dinky little boat. Fixing mistakes. Well trying to. Adding blacks to the trees. And done for now. So glad those overhead branches hide my terrible rigging on the boats or the blotchy trees. Thank goodness. A reprieve.
Margaret ready for a nap after four hours of madly chasing after Vlad today. Eeek.
And I usually like painting boats. I can make a list of things to change which I probably won’t do. The Photo
Portweir Lock Essex Sussex UK I do think the beach should be greyer. Any easy fix of I add blue to it. Either cerulean or cobalt should do the trick.
The sketch First wash. Roof is way too yellow. Second wash going on. Adding the darks Adding calligraphy with a rigger and a few highlights. I scrubbed the boats off some. Added some purple to the rooves to counteract the yellow and added some darks to the tree line. Also added darks tie the wall behind the boats to make them pop out more.
That rusty colored burnt Sienna beach doesn’t do a thing for me. bet it’s going to get changed soon!!
Margaret who might just gesso over this one. Xoxoxox
And calling it done. Of course I haven’t signed it so I might tinker some more. Who knows. Paint along with Vladislav Yesileyev
I added some more darks. The shadows on the top right of the building- the third story?! Under the roof line and the left side of it. I also added some darks to all the windows and the thing that looks like a garage door.
Before I started tinkering. I just made small changes but I think they helped.
Now if I could just get rid of that red smear but oh well. Short of adding a dog or a person that’s not happening. Well not today.
On the whole I like it but feel it’s a little light. I will sleep on it and decide. Paint along with Vladislav Yesileyev
The photoThe sketch Even before painting I managed to smear the worst color of all to remove- Alizarin- on my lovely pristine white paper. Eeek. I did blot it off a little. By the end it seemingly became much less noticeable. Thank goodness. First wash. Boy that took forever. While it looks dark right now it really dried to become very light. cobalt alizarin yellow ochre and cad orangeSky wash done. I managed to keep my fingers out of for once. Cerulean neutral tint dioxzine violet Adding shadows. Cobalt yellow ochre dioxzine and neutral tint Suddenly those darks make the first washed look so light. How strange is that?! The blooms aka rocks on the foreground are made by splattering water on the greys once it dries a bit. And done for now. You can only see a bit of the alizarin smears. Handy the lady has an alizarin top isn’t it!?
Margaret all in for tonite. Michael’s tomorrow for some fixative I hope. Otherwise waiting til I go to Blick this weekend.
First layer watercolor. Lots of yellow and green ultramarine. Slinging paint with the sword brush. What fun.
Makes a lot of Texture
Adding some darks. More paint slinging.
Waiting for some purple and blue pastels to show up from Amazon because I really didn’t have the any good purples or blues.
And I made quite a mess. Paint all over the floor and the tv screen. Oh and me. But still loved doing it. Done for now. What do u think?! Margaret xoxoxox who should be slinging more paint.
