It never truly feels finished. It’s more that I’ve decided to move on b/c the next idea is pushing at the inside of my skull. But nothing I’ve painted has ever felt fully finished. This doesn’t feel finished. I do love the layering of the oil paints on top of water colors. The practice of […]
Lessons learned from previous paintings. I did a swatch painting where I just intuitively painted as I explored how many different pigments and various I could get out of using a limited palette of 5 colors. My goal is to get down to 3 colors but this was such a wonderful exercise. If you look
I did a larger painting of this sketch in watercolor and I loved how it hard turned out. So I had to give it a shot with oil paints. Working with the palette knife is harder than it looks! I also feel the color palette is intense. I didn’t do swatches before starting this piece.
I always loved Claude Monet’s paintings and for my birthday PK took me to the immersive experience. It was phenomenal. Aside from the various awesome things I saw and learned, the biggest take away was that to create my visions, I needed to use Oil Pigments. After watching a ton of youtube videos, following oil