My year-long journey of learning to oil paint. The quest: 300 paintings in 2019. It will require near-daily attention. Progress, lack of progress, fun, not fun, rewarding, not rewarding....stumbling blocks, moments to toss it all, but also moments of great joy! But the learning part....the intention is to record it here.
Saturday, April 6, 2019
04/02/19 #67 First of Many Key West Houses
We got back from our Florida excursion late Sunday, wow! It was a great trip! We got to laze about in Key West, and then we went to Tampa to spend a few days with my son Matt, his wife Eva and their 9 month old baby, Luke. He is the greatest baby ever born, always happy, always interested in what's going on. Matt and Eva are wonderful parents! So, I spent yesterday after work sorting through the myriad of fantastic pictures I took over the previous week. Key West has the most interesting old, little houses throughout their town, many built by ship-builders, painted all kinds of bright colors. So I took a walk one day snapping pictures of colorful or maybe just interesting, houses....intending to paint them when I get home. I have about 100 different houses to paint now! Today, I decided to paint the first (of many). For unknow reasons I picked up a wrapped canvas that had been painted with a background color of tan. It's only 4 inches square, so it's tiny. I really had 5 inch boards in mind for the houses. The next one will be on that....and no under-color, as I want it as bright as possible.
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