Well, I finished it. Am reasonably happy but not crazy about it. I found the pink undertone quite distracting; it really threw me off! And while I didn’t intend to paint over all the pink, it appears I did!
Done on a 10×10 canvas panel as a paint-along effort from Acrylic University‘s “Bloom with Jed” video class.
I recently came across a selection of videos at Jed Dorsey’s YouTube channel called “For the Love of Painting”, and fell in love with the painting Jed calls “Golden Fields & Rustic Barns“.
I’m working this on a 12×12 canvas, toned in neutral gray with a freehand drawing based off what I saw on the video. (This site is one in which you do NOT have to have a membership.)
This 10×10 painting is one I’m doing as a paint-along effort from Acrylic University‘s “Bloom with Jed” paint-along video class.
The focus is on seeing the beauty in a gray, rainy day, of an ordinary (if not ugly, to my mind) marsh near a beach. But Jed points out ways to bring out the natural beauty via the painting — and of course, one way of doing it is using a magenta (PV19) background and letting bits of that tone shine through. We’ll see how it goes.
Last time I said I was undecided about how to finish this daffodil painting from Acrylic University‘s “Bloom with Jed” paint-along video class.
I ended up going with my favorite default… cerulean blue mixed with titanium white for a light sky color. (In the photo it doesn’t look all that much different than the version with a still-white canvas panel!)
The reference photo was taken by Jed Dorsey.
I love daffodils, and this 10×10 painting is based off a reference photo from Acrylic University‘s “Bloom with Jed” paint-along video class.
Still need to do the background, and am undecided how to proceed. Jed tones his canvas black, and then does a kind of gray & brown shadow mosaic — bits of black peeking through — so that it almost looks like a stone wall of a background. But that’s not my speed.
The reference photo was taken by Jed Dorsey.
I started this on a 9×12 canvas, and then my cat bit my right wrist — that’s my painting hand. Ten days of antibiotics got the swelling down, and I pretty much have most of my range of motion back, so I was able to finish this.
The painting is based off a reference photo on Ali Kay‘s Fresh Paint site, and I turned up the saturation on the photo to see colors other than black: dark blue, some deep violet, and some silvery gray.
The photo which looks bluer is actually truer to life, but I made the color more red today (Cadmium Red Hue by Golden) and the new photo looks more washed out.
This painting was done on an 8×8 canvas, and is based off a reference photo on Ali Kay’s Fresh Paint art class site. It felt like Easter to me.
This painting was done on an 6×8 canvas panel (Blick Premier — which I really like, actually), and is based off a 2021 “Paint Along” done by Ali Kay of the Fresh Paint art class site. I think she calls it an aperol spritzer — but compari comes to mind for me.
The thumbnail looks better, to my eye.
This painting was done on an 8×8 canvas panel, and is based off a reference photo on Ali Kay‘s Fresh Paint site. I followed the reference, not Ali’s process. What I like the best is the decorative foam.
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