No picture today

Much to my dismay, the pictures of my first attempt at oil painting have too much glare to post, so I have to figure a way around that before I try again. Anymore photos tonight will have glare from the flash, so I get to try something different.

Last night's class was pretty depressing when I couldn't match the first few colors during the color mixing exercise, but that is because I had odd ball colors, nothing like sage or goldenrod, but something like golden meadow and shadows of a misty dawn and such pretentiously named colors, reminiscent of a thing, not actually representative of it.

As it turned out, my mixing never got up to snuff, so the colors in last night's hastily painted painting are hardly what I would refer to as accurate...except maybe the bottle. Sometime I will get that painting here, and actually next week, we start a multi-day painting, which should be fun and festive, and will hopefully look better than the collection of stuff I am posting right now.

That's it for now...off to some tator tots & beer.

wow...almost two months

Well, my first 8 week figure drawing is done, and the above is a detail from the last drawing. The rest of the drawing didn't turn out as well, since I ran out of time before finishing it.

I don't know why I decided to start posting again, but I have, so now I need to figure out what to ramble about. I have started a second 8 week figure drawing class (actually, the same class, same instructor, and some of the same students), as well as an 8 week oil painting fundamentals class. Anything from that class will have some delay before I post it, since I have to give the oils time to dry.

Spring has sprung, sort of a leak, but this is Seattle, so I shouldn't grouse too much about rain, since it was a given when I decided to move here, but it is no fun to have the heat on only for reasons of dispelling the damp chill, though I guess I could by a dehumidifier, but then I have to find someplace to keep it.

That is about it for now, as my egg rolls are getting cold.