I suppose the last blog could be related to this one, but today was painting workshop day...three I think?
Today's workshop was a little shorter since it took a while to get the commercial done.
Today I learned how you can measure the reference you're trying to paint. I hadn't really done anything like that before (I mostly eyeball) but it is a handy trick to use!
I think I'm still in the "picture perfect" way of painting, but I like the idea of giving yourself a time limit to do a painting...that way you have to focus on getting the impression down first before concentrating on the details.
-I wonder how a painter could take years to finish a painting...? Is it because they wanted it "picture perfect"?
Often it takes years because they are painting in layers, and they're waiting for it to dry before they can continue. You're using a water based oil. Regular oil paint stays wet for weeks. Certain colors stay we for months. Some oil paintings take 50 or more YEARS to dry. The outside looks dry, but the paint down under, which isn't in contact with air, can be wet for a long long time. Paintings can also undergo a lot of changes. You work on it, take a break, come back to it and add something, then take a break, then come back, decide you hate what you added, then change it again, etc. As an example, here is Picasso's Guernica in different stages across two months in 1937, when he was working on it. Now, this is quick, but you get the basic idea of how much the work changed.
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