Spring Break Inspirations
March 13, 2013
Well it’s hump day of our spring break here.
Since my Easy-L tripod is in the shop for repairs I am limited to painting at home this week. So I started looking for fun painting inspiration here at home. A good day for peanut butter sandwiches and painting!
Still life for lunch.
Course lunch time can not be missed, and must be served on the favorite blue plate with rectangle sandwiches. ~for fear of the tummy monster might unexpectedly visit.
Thus today, I found inspiration in my son’s lunch. 🙂
After scraping my palettes, I laid out fresh clean paint. 2 yellows, 2 blues, 2 reds. Specifically: cad red light and cad red medium and white. I laid out my under painting with a wash mixture of cad red light and violet (alizarin & ultramarine). Then borrowing a few notes from a recent workshop with Carol Marine I set to painting islands and oceans of clean grays.
Easy-L palette at work.
Turns out it made a great complimentary study. Yes, Blue and Orange or opposites on the color wheel.
I think I had just as much fun painting the bread and crusts of the sandwich as I did defining the orange. It was a good painting hump-day indeed.
