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.
Thursday, July 11, 2019
#137 6/27/19 Penguins Chatting
I don't know why this picture appealed to me. The penguins looked amiable, perhaps that is the appeal. I got a bit frustrated trying to get the rocky foreground. What I ended up with is some childish looking swipes of dark paint....not a great effort. Texture seems beyond my skill set still. The big ice chunks I painted over, as the white was competing (too well) for prominence over the white bellies of the penguins. I liked my white mountains in the distance though. They kind of happened as a happy accident and I kept them. I tried to lighten the mountains as they went further into the distance. I think I captured the penquins' amiability toward one another, but I think I misrepresented their feet. Where is the salmon color?
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