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!
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.
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.