My brain started rebelling against all of the repeating pattern assignments and so I just threw this down. I love looking at it.
Violet:
Daniel Smith ultramarine blue
M. Graham alizarin crimson
M. Graham ultramarine violet
Yellow:
Daniel Smith hansa yellow light
The Paint Yourself Happy team gave us the assignment of choosing a pattern or shape and repeating it over and over again. I’m really glad I finished it, just so that I didn’t have to do it anymore. I never want to see another square again.
As part of the Paint Yourself Happy assignment of creating tiny landscapes, I grabbed two random colors from the box:
M Graham quinacridone red
Daniel Smith iridescent gold
I had no idea what to do with them. I don’t particularly like painting landscapes at this point. And red and gold don’t exactly lend themselves to traditional landscapes. So I just painted a swipe of color on, and then another, and then just…kept going. It wasn’t until I was about 70% done with it that I knew what it was going to be.
This was a lot of fun. Might do it again sometime.
Day 2 of the PYH2021 challenge on Insta. This whole week, we were focused on “tiny landscapes,” with the prompt being “just put down some paint and see where it takes you.”
This one was interesting for me to work on because it was the first time I’d ever sat with a piece, looked at it, and then added a layer because it felt like it was missing something. Can you imagine what the foreground would look like without the front tip of a boat protruding into it?
It’s also the first time I deliberately added a “bloom” (or “cauliflower,” as some call them) to add texture. AND it’s the first time I turned a mistake into a purposeful thing.
The tree below started out as a major bleed of a rather wet puddle of red into the “sky.” I let it dry down 90% of the way and then went back with a water-only brush and started dabbing in foliage. That was a delightful moment when I “saved” the painting. I felt like Bob Ross. No mistakes, only happy accidents.
Joined an Instagram challenge called Paint Yourself Happy. Week 1’s prompt: tiny landscapes.
Have no idea what colors these are, I just cleaned out an old tray.
