Paint ON!

This is the painting i did

This is my painting, and me.


Here is Jenny and her painting, its funny because olivia fell asleep and then we started painting, and it was great, and then livy woke up and i brought her out to watch us paint, and she kept trying to tell jenny her nose was covered in paint. it was funny, livy just stood there forever staring at it and saying "nose" "nose". anyways one of these pictures i put because the flash was on, and you could really see how wet the paint is!
(This is the wet one)
This one is of how we were set up for the painting.
And this one is jennys painting.

So yesterday, me and jenny attempted to paint Impressionistic style (not really painting in normal stages with beginning, or underpainting to secure objects and that sort of thing. with impressionistic, we jsut start by doing small spots of color and sort of work across (or in our case down) the canvas. it was very difficult, because its hard to keep the colors clean. which is exactly what richard schmid said would be the most difficult. hes ALWAYS right. so if any of you readers out there want to learn a thing or two about painting, read Alla Prima by him. its a great investment if you want to learn about painting. ) anyways. that was a longer breath than i had planned... so lets go on. i think we did a terrific job! especially being the first attempt at this style of painting... and jennys FIRST time ever painting! im very proud of her, she did a great job. so i have posted here some of the pictures of us painting. I will note this, i am not sure i would do another painting so simple, being there were SO many flowers. the field was HUGE! and it got boring, or rather, we let ourselves wander a big after a while. we needed something with maybe a more interesting foreground.. but that said, i think they turned out pretty cool. jenny might do something to her mountains today, but if she does, i will post it. and i think we may paint today. so check back later if you'd like. (knock on wood..) i would really like to paint again since i have no work today!