I have two paintings today. The first is painted in pastels and it took a couple of days to finish. It's not that it took that long, it was just trying to find time to paint. It is always hard for me to go back to a painting the next day and continue painting. Maybe it is because when you start a painting you vision it in your mind and if you have to stop painting and start again the next day, the vision is gone. Could it be that the excitement is gone? I know a lot of painters who take many sessions to complete a painting and they do a great job on it. I think if you finish a painting in one sitting, it helps you achieve a looser look. Makes sense to me.
Here is number 39, a pastel painting that is painted on 5 x 7 brown Pastelmat. I did a little experiment with this one, using just the Maggie Price Value Set of Terry Ludwig pastels. It is a sixty pastel stick set made up of ten hues and each hue has six values. I kept track and I used eighteen sticks for the painting. This would be a limited palette for pastels. This is painted from a reference photo of mine.
#39
This is number forty. A third of the way through the challenge. It is a water miscible oil painting using Windsor & Newton Artisan paint and is painted on a 5 x 7 canvas panel that was toned with mud made from leftover paint from the last oil painting. I used a limited palette again, but this time I used a triad of ultramarine blue, lemon yellow and cadmium red hue along with titanium white. The same method as the last painting was used, mixing three tones of each hue and mixing the hues together, getting three tones of each mixture. I really enjoy using a limited palette that is already mixed. You just paint and don't worry about not having the "right" color. You just use the closest color and value you have and go for it. Fun stuff!
#40
Thanks for looking.
Doug Wasilieff
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