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The 3 P's of Painting (4 actually)

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smokie55:
I am going to make a short term goal to start doing some color studies. Mostly outdoors but some inside with photographs. I finally broke the seal on my oil paints this weekend. I m getting my first painting on canvas as we speak (type). I will post the photo soon. It is a simple piece but it is what got me started in oil and help me move to a new medium. I love the acrylics but the frustrate me in the Texas heat. Now I know why so many southwest artist paint in oil not acrylic.

These color studies will be on cheaper panel board and will be quick color and value studies with no heavy details. I think this will help me expand my freedom and flow. You guys are great encouragement. We all need more of that when the bumps come. Thanks All.

Happy Painting :painting:

thegrindre:
I think you'll find more freedom in oils, Smokie. The drying time is much longer and you can sit with a paintbrush between your teeth while thinking things through and not have to worry about the paint drying up on you.
Shucks, you could even run to the store for supplies and still have a wet canvas when you got back.   ;)

Happy painting...

patindaytona:
You're like me Val on details. I'm currently doing that Archway in Jeruslaem photo. You probably seen it in the forum. This is a good example of how to arrive to the details. I'm going to GENERALIZE the large areas first with darkest darks, and some of those middle tone areas (also large), then blend them together. Then within them, get less and less vague about things, but keeping it on the same level of the vagueness till your ready for the more detailed level. Not all images are quite so easy to decipher like that, but you have to look at the SHAPES of large areas first. They might not have any hard boundaries at all..might just blend into other places, but look for these SEPERATE ares of values. You'll have to decide where they separate sometimes, then just smoothly blend them together and work into them..getting smaller and smaller into detail. You probably know all this already, but just a reminder.

Liz:
How's your painting coming, Smokie?  Even though we may use smaller panels or canvases, and in the process save money on paint, the effort and results are like we have worked on a major project and can be quite satisfying!  Since I started painting again a few months ago, I found it nice to work with smaller canvases, while gradually getting myself back into art work.  And on this forum there's so much to learn to help me do better paintings! :gl: :painting:

patindaytona:
Churchill's quote: ...."success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm"....and Degas who said, "painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do!"

"When the "context" of the painting has been more blocked-in,   judgement can be finer now and more specific"

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