AFTER
This palette knife painting represents a rose from memory. In the BEFORE version I was satisfied with the composition, but not the colors I don’t know why I use the dull brown. Anyway, I looked at it today by chance, and thought I want to fix this. The texture has a bit different effect covering over the top of existing texture but I’m glad I went for it! I may try this again from scratch sometime.
BEFORE
6″x 6″ gallery edge stretched canvas
Recently I decided to start a fresh palette. The old one was maintained for over a year. The Golden Open Acryics along with a sealed palette like Mijello, if refreshed with new paint when needed make that possible. It works because the paint slowly thickens instead of skinning over. I recently bought a gray palette, which is a great neutral backdrop. I still have my white one, I’m letting it dry completely so I can easily peal off the old paint. I will keep them both going.
On my easel today is a painting of Begonias, stirred into action by the Spring fever I’m feeling. 6″x6″ stretch Gallery Wrap Canvas.
One thing I look forward to every Spring is my first trip to Medary Acres, our local Nursery. This is where I went looking for my subject.
Posing with my subject is a persistent Merlin the Cat. I’ve just decided he should be the star of a new painting, coming soon!
THE AFTER
I was looking through my shelf of rejected canvas boards, and saw one I thought I could rework over the top of the existing painting. I believe it was done in Watersoluble Oils. I used those oils just to be on safe side. I don’t really have medium to mix with it that I like to make it tackier. The strokes blend together much too easily. It was a struggle.
Above is the After, Below is the Before. 6″x 8″.
THE BEFORE
THE SHELF OF REJECTS
Shouldn’t be too surprising that I have a shelf of rejects! Do you have a painting that could use a makeover? I would enjoy seeing and hearing about yours!
Where to put leaves is kind of like a puzzle. The fight against my brain to not make a repeated pattern and keep it random. I enjoy painting trees, almost as much as I do clouds. 😊
6×6″ gallery edge stretched canvas.
I thought I would keep working on trees now and then. It’s similar to studying the figure, except they vary more, and have a more random element added to them, but they do have limbs. This is the first step of the underpainting.
Now I’ve added the clumps of leaves. The underpainting helps me work out the shapes, and negitive space.
I was so proud of my Daughter’s watercolor, I had to share it! She’s 16 years old and new to watercolor. It’s 18″x 24″ which is bigger than any watercolor I’ve done! 😉 Great work girl!
We went Museum hopping in Minneapolis this weekend, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Weismann Art Museum and Bell Museum at U of M.
“Frank” Chuck Close
Best of all was the MIA, I enjoyed seeing the German Expressionists, the Cubists, Surrealists, and the French impressionists, but what left the biggest impression on me was this painting by Chuck Close. He is so imposing and 3d dimensional in person. I appreciate the difficulty, having painted heads that size on billboards in Detroit when I was a young adult. For billboards though we never painted them with that degree of realism because the images were seen from hundreds of feet away. Drips were not even visible. In this painting each hair and skin folical was articulated. I would love to see one of Chuck Close’s later works with the broken color, and be able to view it from different distances.
A Self portrait by Chuck Close
I’m recharged and ready to get home and make my humble art. It’s all about the process and the journey. I do it for myself, and it brings me joy!
I played with a new tool today! It falls between a palette knife and a brush. They are most similar to painting with a spatchella. They are called Mini Blades. They have a little bit of a lighter touch than a palette knife.
I’m satisfied with the outcome, but look forward to practicing with them more and doing a bigger painting. A nice heavy bodied paint is best.
They’re used like a palette knife, but have more give. Apply or move paint from the top, side, and back of the blade. The edge is not actually like a blade it’s very blunt and flexible.
The full name of the product is Princeton Catalyst Mini Blades. Dick Blick sells them.
If you are interested in palette knife painting, I highly reccomend them.
Oil on Stretched Canvas 16″x20″
This is another painting I did with light through the trees. They are more translucent, and sparse. It’s challenging, I had to do it a couple times before I was satisfied. It’s all about the negitive space, the holes, trying not to create patterns, and making it random. I think it would be beneficial to do more of these in the near future.
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