I bought the download lesson's from Larry Seiler's webinar. It is great to be able and sit back and listen to Larry's wisdom about painting. The more I listen to the lessons and read the lesson notes, the more I realize how much I didn't retain from listening live. Included in the package is a painting demo titled "Last Light Impressions." I watched it last night and enjoyed it immensely. I woke up thinking about painting. Not only painting, but painting with a brush.
There are so many options at my fingertips. I decided to do a small landscape using gouache. I will save the oils for another day. The gouache was still wet in my sta-wet palette from a week ago, which is nice to know. Artist quality paint is not cheap, so finding ways to extend the time that the paint is usable is very beneficial.
Last week I primed some cold press watercolor paper with Art Spectrum Colourfix Rose Grey primer, thinking I could use pastel on it. Maybe two coats wasn't enough, but I didn't like how the pastel went onto the surface. In the past I have used a watercolor under painting on Colourfix, so I figured it could be used for a gouache painting. It is nice starting a painting on a colored surface.
This is way out of my comfort zone. I tried to keep it loose and just thought shapes. I think the sky turned out okay, but I don't know about the rest of the painting. Maybe because it is different from what I have done in the past. Anyway, painting #32 is 5 x 7.
Thanks for looking.
#32
Doug
I love the whole painting. Are these poppies in the foreground? And what season is it - is it a late summer's day?
ReplyDeleteThanks, Ulla. The reference photo shows hay bales, so it would be summer. I left them out, because I wanted to simplify things. I added the flowers, so they can be poppies if you want them to be. The foreground needed some color, so I added the reds/ oranges.
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