Today was not necessarily hard, but it still manages to fry my brain (when I got home I passed out and napped for 3 hours). However, I will endure this to become better at seeing things and be able to do great things without the use of a grid.
My blue paintings are giving me the blues. Turns out my paint sucks way more than I thought. I couldn't even push the colors to gray. Everything came out muddy. Bummer.
The reading was very interesting to me mainly because I failed to realize how artist react to each other out of rivalry and envy. The idea of Da Vinci and Michelangelo making fun and insulting each other kind of makes me laugh. I honestly never heard of Fresco before so that is cool (FRESCO the paint for REAL MEN). I see how using Fresco would be more convenient than oil paints. Not only did they have to worry about color but how thick the paint was, I already have problems with color, another factor might drive me crazy. Coloring is always my least favorite part of doing something. I always manage to mess it up and ruin the whole thing causing aggravation. The whole painting with two hands, were they just as skilled using both hands or was it harder for one hand than the other? I think last year I remember using two hands for painting, not to speed things up, but to go crazy with what I was doing.
I am both excited and afraid for these next two weeks to come.
It will be a fun two weeks! You will improve muchly.
ReplyDeleteKeep at it with the color mixing. Suddenly, you can just do it and the colors look good. I'm not sure how else to describe it, but that is what happens.
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