The first exercise was painting positive/negative shapes, and colouring them in complementary colours. It’s not easy painting a circle with a 1 ½” brush; why I did not use the other one, I don’t know. Mixing the two complementary colours into shades of grey (the 3rd column; they all looked brownish to me) gave some really interesting textures.
The last half hour we got to play. Using 3 colours of our own choice, we painted a horizon. It was so much fun to see how the acrylic paint worked with mixing colours and adding water. I will not throw it away as it is apparently a great starting point for adding other techniques and stuff later.
The teacher talked a little about how to overcome the fear of a white canvas. Are you kidding me; I could not start painting fast enough!
Wow! another talent uncovered. You for sure have to keep this painting. I think we kept every thing Denise ever did and love them all.
ReplyDeleteI did try to e-mail you but it wouldn't go through. I've been sick with some silly virus for a few days but will try to make everything work later today after work. I think it does show now on my blog. I'm still working on it tho.