Hi!
Sometimes I just feel like painting without having to think about the process or about what I 'should' paint. Like anyone, I can get tired of paying attention to the how, and just want to play with paint.
While there's some merit in open play, it rarely yields anything noteworthy for me, and certainly nothing that I could hope to present to a gallery (my big goal for this year). Perhaps one day I'll show you the mess I made this last week when I took a break from the work of painting and just played.
But today is about the work side of things.
After a whole month of painting miniatures and little else, it was a bit daunting to start in on something bigger. Last week I showed you the underpainting for the tall iron cobbler's shoe form. I discovered that it was too big a jump and that I'll have to work my way back into the larger stuff a little more gradually.
So I backed up a little and painted a couple of small works; "Brown Feather Falling," which I showed you last week, and this one.
I had already decided to explore the teacups more. As I looked back over all the images and interactions about teacups during the challenge, I noticed that the colors within the aqua teacups varied...quite a lot actually.
So before I rush headlong to paint a larger version of that cup, it's time to study the colors and values a little.
