Tomorrow I start a three day workshop with Quang Ho here in Houston. The workshop is titled “light and shadow” and I think we’ll start with still lifes, but I’m not sure. Then the following weekend I will take another three day workshop with Quang Ho on the landscape. I hope it’s good. When it
Now I’m finished. And I changed the name to “Grandma’s tablecloth”. I need to come up with better names, and while that’s not a great one it’s better than “Pears and a tablecloth”. This was fun, I’m going to paint some more of these, some smaller sizes which will be easier to sell in shows.
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I took this photo this afternoon after I got back after my break and painted some more. The first thing that I saw with my “fresh eyes” was I thought the shadows were too dark. So I lightened them, mainly I’m talking about the cast shadows on the tablecloth. At this point I’ve just about
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Here is what I’ve done this morning. I’m filling in the off white color of the tablecloth. It’s so light it’s hard to tell where I’ve painted and where I have toned canas. I’m trying to get the canvas covered with paint, then I’ll go in and work on my edges. I haven’t tackled that
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Today I did the underpainting on my canvas for my next painting. This canvas is 16″x20″, which is larger than I’ve been painting lately, but I decided if I was going to go through all the trouble to paint a tablecloth with a floral pattern, I wanted to do it on a bigger canvas. I
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Yes, you can paint on unstretched canvas. I will show you: an EASY way to paint on unstretched canvas. TWO ways to prepare the unstretched canvas for framing. Using the right canvas I recommend using primed linen or cotton canvas. You can buy cotton or linen canvas by the yard at an art supply store
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Last night I went ahead and painted in the model stand using the photo I took during the class (and posted in the last post). Thank you everyone for your comments on which version you liked best. I’ll let this painting dry, I have a while before I have to decide what I want to
Today I went to my figure class to paint the same girl . . . again. We paint the same model for four weeks. I decided I would paint the model but also include some of the other students. So yesterday I cut a piece of linen canvas and taped it to a big piece
