Since I spent WAY too much time on my painting yesterday, I was determined to spend very little time on a painting today. I had another photo of the olive trio and decided to do them on one of my "pre-painted" boards. It was a yellow-ish color and the paint was mostly dry. I used the palette left over from the event yesterday which was "Baby Pryor", so given the amount of excess blue on the palette it went toward the background. But then I thought, rats, I was supposed to let some of the background yellow show through here and there. I smudged the corners with a piece of scrap fabric. The fabric was rather stiff, and when I folded it over to wipe the canvas again I found that I could scratch the surface paint off....so on a whim I scribbled around the edges. Experimenting, that's what I'm supposed to do, right????
Since it was finished lickety-split, I decided to get busy on a chore: I varnished all the previous paintings that seemed "ready". The Gamsol people also make Gamvar (at which point the name Gamsol made more sense), and the website said I could apply the varnish when you simply couldn't budge the paint....it might not be completely dry, but it was still ok to apply the varnish and all the layers would dry together over time. Since I'm not a very thick painter (yet, I might experiment with that next), nearly every one of my paintings seemed ready for varnish. When I had them all laying out on the floor drying, it looked like A LOT of paintings. What the heck will I do with them all?
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