#52 3-10-19 Green Apple

More eye-liner work going on tonight.  This canvas had a gray-eige background color, so it seems like there's a bit of drama in the painting, a bit of mystery.  I tried to make it fast and loose, using up paint left on the palette from last night's painting.  My new thing is to mix all the paint left on the brush from the subject and stir it into the shadow, with the thinking being that those colors would be reflected down on the surface, so some of those pigments there would make sense.  And vice versa, some of the surface pigment put on the subject, because that color would be reflected up.  I'm noticing too that I'm not missing the horizon line....I've purposely left it out, but perhaps I'll bring it back with the next painting, see if it feels right or wrong or maybe just inconsequential in these simple paintings.  I did miss the bright red signature tonight, and as such I squished out a bit of extra red paint in order to give two upcoming blank canvases a red background color  It actually looks more like salmon than red.  I am just too cheap to give it full red I guess.  But also I'd like it to be dry and ready to go this week sometime.