Painting class

So the day of the painting class finally arrives. There were only four of us and the teacher. One of the students was a repeat attender, (LOL), and the other two had quite a bit of artistic talent in working with miniatures and sketching. I felt like a fish out of water.

The first half of  the class was spent in color theory, making color charts from a few basic colors. I wanted to scream "ENOUGH ALREADY, I know blue and yellow make green, Red and yellow make orange, etc. I want to get to the point of the class and get some painting done." ( I did not realize how important the color theory was and he did not go into it in enough depth to make it interesting or for me to actually learn anything)

Finally we got down to the actual painting. Everyone else had prepped canvas board and I had canvas paper. Again, A fish out of water. One of the other students gave me one of her boards. As soon as I started painting, I realized one of the MAJOR problems with my previous paintings. UNPREPPED canvas paper.




During class, everyone else finished their project while I got only about halfway through and took a picture of the sample to work from at home.

After class, the instructor showed me Gesso, and blending medium. Two things I had never heard of but both are very important to prepping, blending and layering. So now I have a little bit more in my tool box.

Since he had told me I had the wrong type of paints (neon and metallic) I decided to purchase other set of colors. It contains Brilliant Blue, Brilliant Red, Brilliant yellow, white and black. It was not my most brilliant move. When trying to follow along with a YouTube video, my colors don't come close to matching. The colors are TOO Brilliant. But they are somewhat workable.

After I finished my painting, I realized that if have a painting for my nephew, I also needed one for his soon to be little sister. So I decided every little girl should have flowers. I tried, but it ended up looking like, at best, a pansy on a tulip plant. At worst it looks like a pinwheel in grass. But she won't know the difference for a few years and by that time, hopefully, I will be able to paint her a pretty flower.