About time to replenish sold paintings at the Riverwalk Gallery. We are allowed 8 paintings at a time. These night scenes sell real well and I still love to do them so that is a happy thing. Another happy thing is the 2 day workshop that I just finished with a group of really nice artists from Huntsville. I had them go through my process of cropping off the photo and then doing a preliminary drawing first to establish the design and placement of things before jumping into the painting part. Just handling the paint and colors is hard enough so a drawing first really helps me to decide what looks good where. Then I am at least confident that my painting has a chance at being successful if I can then get the colors and brushwork working! We did a "paint along" using this photo of the tomatos and the bowl. I wish the shadows in the pic were a little less tricky, but I think everyone started to look at the colors as shapes and at least started thinking about the importance of edges.
About time to replenish sold paintings at the Riverwalk Gallery. We are allowed 8 paintings at a time. These night scenes sell real well and I still love to do them so that is a happy thing. Another happy thing is the 2 day workshop that I just finished with a group of really nice artists from Huntsville. I had them go through my process of cropping off the photo and then doing a preliminary drawing first to establish the design and placement of things before jumping into the painting part. Just handling the paint and colors is hard enough so a drawing first really helps me to decide what looks good where. Then I am at least confident that my painting has a chance at being successful if I can then get the colors and brushwork working! We did a "paint along" using this photo of the tomatos and the bowl. I wish the shadows in the pic were a little less tricky, but I think everyone started to look at the colors as shapes and at least started thinking about the importance of edges.
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