#49 030719 Dave's Boots

Since I liked the blue sneakers so much, Dave's boots laying in the kitchen caught my eye as "also paintable".  We've had quite a bit of snow this winter, and we both have our snow boots perpetually drying on a towel on the kitchen floor.  Again though, the laces were my challenge!  The leather was so many varying shades of brown...I pulled out Raw Sienna, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna and (my most used and favorite for corners and edges) Raw Umber.  Sounds like maybe I'm missing Burnt Umber.  I'll have to keep an eye out for that one when it's on sale.  Not Hobby Lobby paints though.....I'm reserving that brand for crazy colors.  The brand most of my paints come from is Winsor and Newton Winton Oil Colour.  You know they're high quality pigments when color is spelled "colour"!  The week before my oil class started last fall at the Delaplaine, Michaels was having a buy two get one on these paints.  There were 8 colors requested on the supply list for the class, so I had to get a 9th (since it would be foolish not to) and I chose black as the missing ingredient.  When the class started the instructor said black didn't exist in real life, so "we don't use it".  I kept my mouth shut about having it in my cigar box of paints.  I have however used it successfully (I think anyway) in several paintings, including this one: directly under the boots, it's very dark and the black translates that well.