Thursday, 22 January 2015

DAY 22 - Daily Lessons

I learn something new everyday as I continue following the copy books for Oriental style painting. The illustration for this painting was in black & grey so I used one of my flower books to get a sense of the true color of the flower. Then I followed the instructions for applying color from that book instead of using the Oriental style I am supposed to be learning. Lesson? - one book at a time!

Chrysanthemums
The double and triple loading of the brush is coming much easier as is the amount of water to use when mixing the paints. I am learning to control my hand for those fine stokes and for the touch, press and swirl technique that is used to make the leaves. "Chrysanthemums" is a 7 x 7 watercolor on rice paper.

Yesterday, a friend told me that she talked to someone at the library who is following my progress on Facebook and he commented along the lines that he could see the improvement in my Oriental paintings. It was nice to hear but I wish he would comment where I could see it!

I have been enjoying checking out the art by the other artists in this challenge and I hope you are too. Here is the link again - http://lesliesaeta.blogspot.ca/. And, although only a fraction of the artists are entering their paintings in the voting contest, that is fun too. I hope you will go and vote (for my paintings too please) at -http://paintamasterpiece.blogspot.ca/.


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6 comments:

  1. Sheila22 January 2015 at 16:47

    This is wonderful Val. Your colors are so juicy, even those greens sing! Beautiful composition! Glad to hear some of the lessons are getting easier for you :)

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    1. Mellowood Gallery22 January 2015 at 17:35

      Thank you so much Sheila - your comments are always so inspiring!

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  2. Sea Dean - Paint a Masterpiece22 January 2015 at 23:02

    Ah the ART PARTY is a well kept secret Val. Of course anyone can post paintings and vote for another 8 days if they visit my blog. Remember also you can go back to day one and vote for the paintings you like by clicking on the links at the bottom
    And this one is lovely Val. Good Luck in the voting.

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    1. Mellowood Gallery23 January 2015 at 07:47

      Hi Sea - I am up-to-date with my voting and managed to post one picture to the Art Party on Pinterest but I still have to figure out how to link the photo to a website or blog or somewhere - this challenge has given me a number of new challenges - lol

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  3. Nelvia23 January 2015 at 07:08

    Morning Val, not all the way through you blog yet, but wanted to let you know I am looking, up,to start of challenge and I am awed by all you have/can do. I love Oriental so will enjoy your works in that area. Thanks for stopping by my blog and glad to meet and hope to get to know you and your work better. Best

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    1. Mellowood Gallery23 January 2015 at 07:42

      Hi Nelvia, thank you for the lovely comment. This challenge has been good in so many ways, one of which is finding more artists to follow and enjoy. I hope that I added my email to your blog but if not I will take care of that today as I enjoyed you work too.

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