Sunday, May 20, 2012

Out back--Painting # 2

This is an 8x8 oil and I am actually ok with this one because I went outside and took some pictures and tried to figure out the best layout to crop the picture so I could paint it. This is with a palette knife and I am still very new to the palette knife so it's probably too schmooshie but I am working on not schmooshing so much. It's like icing a cake so I don't think we would want our cakes all schmooshie like this. With every painting I get a little better with handling the knife.  I won't always use a knife but I will sometimes use a brush. Anyway I am pretty happy with this one since it was from a photo I had taken and turned it into a painting! Ok 2 down, 198 to go. I won't post them all because you will surely get extremely bored---and remember, if you read the blog post from yesterdays blog it said 120 bad paintings.
I don't let bad paintings stick around so I will probably wipe them off but at least I will have clocked in my brush/knife time. And for this one, if you stand back from it, it looks a whole lot better.


7 comments:

Janie Husband said...

that is the nice thing about oils, you can wipe them clean if you want.....i myself love seeing your work so post away....love the color in this one, martha... ;-)

Unknown said...

beautiful colors and strokes of color

Altax said...

Lovely painting!!!

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Debo Boddiford said...

Looks really GREAT from Georgia! ;-)

Nancy Eaton said...

I love the knife work! Makes me want to try - but maybe with acrylics. Please keep posting - I love looking at your work.

PiaRom said...

Love that I can see and feel the sun, when I look at your painting!

Christophergfwp said...

Looks really GREAT from Georgia! ;-)

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