going from extreme dread to extreme hope around here. i will post some amazing flickr photos with a link next. for now, here is day three of my class. we had the most amazing strange wicked weather (thanks to the fires). an all day sunset glow, makes for great paintings, difficult breathing and dread in the heart.
todays view, orange light on green waves
my instructor michael situ, in progress
and finished:
for anyone who wonders what a painting workshop is like, a plein air painting workshop at least, basically you watch a master painter each morning do a demo and then you paint your own in the afternoon. for me, i try to clear my head at lunch after watching michael paint a masterpiece effortlessly, calm myself. try to remember a few things he said... orange with blue, red with green, purple with???YELLOW! ok, then just try to get through each stage of composition sketch, paint sketch, darks in, focal point and then adding warm and cool tones moving away from the focal point. thats it! lets go...
and done
(don't compare mine to his, ha ha!!!) but i did use much more color and went way out of my comfort zone today. hoping for miracles tomorrow.
can you believe the light looked like this for hours and hours all afternoon? too bad it comes at such a great cost.
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