WetCanvas WDE

Every weekend over at WetCanvas.com, they have a challenge called the WDE where a host posts sixteen photos and you pick one to paint or draw and post your results.  The goal is to take less than two hours to complete, but if you are not finished you take a photo and post it at the two hour mark and when it is finished you take another photo and post the results.  It is a fun challenge and can get you out of a rut.  This weekend was hosted by a fellow Canuck, mbeckett, who posted some wonderful photos to choose from.  Thanks, Mike.

I decided to continue with the water miscible oils and see what happens.  I am not too sure about this one, but it is another step to the 120 mark.  It is done using just three hues and white again.  I sure like painting with a limited palette and can see the advantages it would give an artist painting plein air.  Premix three tones in each hue and mix each color with another and make three tones of those.  This is done with a split complementary palette of lemon yellow, ultramarine blue and dioxazine purple along with titanium white.  I mixed a pile using all three colors and a little white and used it to tone the canvas to get rid of the white.  I also used a bit of the mixture to mute colors when I needed to tone the color down.   It is painted Windsor & Newton Artisan WMO's  and is painted on a 5 x 7 canvas panel.  It took just over an hour to complete.

Thanks for looking.

#37

Doug

My First Oil Painting

I bought some Windsor & Newton Artisan water miscible oils about a year ago and other than doing a few black and white studies, this is my first ever oil painting.  I know some people don't consider WMO's to be true oils, but using them straight out of the tube, I can't see any difference.

After watching Larry Seiler's video, it was only a matter of time until I would give oils a go.  I am glad I did.  It was fun!  Holding a brush in my hand seems different than holding a pastel.  Both are used to put pigment onto a surface, but I seem to loosen up more with a brush.  More freedom?  I don't know, but I will be using oils more now that I have broken the ice.

This is painted with Windsor & Newton Artisan Water Miscible Oils and is painted on an 8 x 10 canvas board.  The photo reference is from the Image Reference Library at WetCanvas.com.

Thanks for looking.

#33

Doug