I am short of my goal this month....didn't make the 25 paintings for February....a trip to Michigan, Joe's quilt, Bev's passing....it was quite a month. But I did teach oil painting to four of the niece/nephews plus Dave, perhaps I should count those toward my goal. And I made several new breakthroughs....the under-color and the eye-liner. I bought some Gam-Var, and tonight plan to varnish a few of the dryer paintings from last month, especially the ones that Paul said he'd take (he'll be here for his Grandmother's service on Sunday).
Here are the 3 "abstracts" that I worked on with the left-over paint on the palette; two that are in the same style as last month and one that I used a stencil for. Note from the pictures that #45 looked totally different midway....I was just placing random weird whatnots on the 10x20 canvas, and decided it was a horror, so I painted over it....didn't even gesso it first. The curlique stencil one I used some "liquin" in the black outline, which is supposed to make the paint dry quickly (like, overnight). That way I wouldn't drag black paint everywhere on the early fill-in areas
Overall, I'm calling February a successful learning-to-paint month!
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| #43 February 2019, Swirly Stencil, 12x12 inch |
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| #44 February 2019, they're not cellphones |
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| #45 February 2019, Yucky Abstract, began a paint-over |
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| #45 paint-over completed |
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