Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Here is my very first oil painting

Here comes the scary part, sharing my painting.  I made multiple mistakes on this first attempt, as you would expect for a first try.  I mixed some of the colors too thoroughly so they ended up as solid blobs of color with no life.  I also found it hard to mix the paint.  Just a little bit of some colors caused the mix to be very dark and I was forever trying to lighten it.  I will most likely start from scratch on a canvas panel this weekend and try this again.  I hope that my second effort will end with better results.

This is what the painting looked like after the class:

This is what the painting looked like after my feeble attempt to add some dimension:

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