Phase 1, painting thus far, and on top of collaged background below. Not finished but I'm liking
collage-ed background, sealed with Golden medium and ready to paint
I'm getting my paint on ... sort of.
Week 1 of the fabulous Mati Rose & Lisa Congden's e-course Get Your Paint On ! - Hello Painting ! Our first week's inspiration - the quilts of Gee's Bend - how freakin' perfect !!
A few things I'm learning about painting thus far
• gesso (my new besty) will hide all bad painting sins, so I can chill-if I screw up, I'll gesso over it
• I love, love, love bright colours
• I want to draw on my paintings and write with a paint brush
• it's really much harder (for me anyway) to plan a painting
• it's not a start to finish in one afternoon kinda thing
• sandpaper, sandpaper, sandpaper
• gel medium, gel medium, gel medium
• it's good to have more than one painting on the go
• who knows when a painting is finished ... I guess that comes with experience
• Hooray ! I do not hold my breath while painting and that's a good thing
• the collage background is kind of like having an abstract drawing in place before you begin
I want wrap myself up in those bright colors and keep warm. Thank you for a beautiful pick me up this morning.
ReplyDeleteyou are sure welcome Shammy Sahm !!
ReplyDeleteIt is looking fabulous so far!
ReplyDeleteLove hearing about your class...keep warm + paint on!
ReplyDeleteTail wags to all,
~moose
I love all of the maps, pages from books and hand written scraps in the second one!
ReplyDeleteThank you Betsy - the second one is the first one. I created the collage background so I could then paint on top of it. I'll post the finished (?) paintings tomorrow.
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