I traced out these 4 pictures yesterday, spending oodles of time on the Pexels website to find more interesting "free" pics, selecting about a dozen, then these 4 to paint. Note that the clown fish is back, I miss him, so I elected to recreate him...and I sent the photographer $1. I know it's a lame amount, but the painting was sold cheap....if I advance, I'll send more. Tonight I started painting them, starting with the owl. I thought I'd get through maybe one or two, but I kept chugging along, my persistence getting the best of me. I was a bit frustrated at one point and should have gone to bed, but didn't. I couldn't get the colors right, I couldn't get the textures right, at one point I dropped the brush (full of white paint) on the finished pumpkin and had to wipe it and repaint it....and when I finally threw in the towel and went to the kitchen to clean my brushes I think I may have diagnosed my problem(s):
- My favored brush has gotten too fat and fluffy and should likely go in the trash
- I need to stop reusing old palettes of leftover paint, it's partially dried, partially dirty, it's gross
- I need to use a bigger palette, what I usually use is so small that there's no place to mix new colors
- I am too lazy to clean my brush between colors; the current color is polluted with the previous color (sometimes I like the effect of a weird color jumping in, but tonight I didn't)
My goodness, no wonder I was frustrated! These paintings will get tweaked, except for maybe the owl, I like him as is.
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