tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60813238317504909622024-03-13T03:04:22.187-04:00Susan Bertke, ArtistWhether I'm working in watercolor, acrylic, pastel, or some other medium, I invite you to look over my shoulder as I force myself into my studio and battle the gremlin of self criticism.Susan Bertkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09834767515824503982noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081323831750490962.post-53439823571271228002017-12-08T22:03:00.000-05:002017-12-08T22:03:17.015-05:00The original pourFor anyone who's interested, I've taken the snowy forest painting and laid it next to the unused portion of my original "pour." So, in theory, I can one day do another painting from the remainder. <br />
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<br />Susan Bertkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09834767515824503982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081323831750490962.post-52657919392643627962017-12-07T21:54:00.000-05:002017-12-07T21:54:29.996-05:00Acrylic + Watercolor on Yupo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is the second painting I did in Sandy Maudlin's workshop. It's still a work in process, and I found this technique much more comfortable. Essentially, I poured acrylic paint on Yupo and let it run and bleed. That "pour" becomes as the middle values for the painting. The next step is to use rubbing alcohol to remove the paint to get light values. Finally, the darks and details are added with watercolor.<br />
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At this stage of the painting, there are very few darks. I'm living with this version for a while, and pondering just how much I want to add.Susan Bertkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09834767515824503982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081323831750490962.post-18056204144351474712017-11-11T18:16:00.000-05:002017-11-11T18:16:52.610-05:00UpdateIt has been soooo long since I last posted, and soooo long since I produced anything substantial in my studio! I'm not even going to <i>try </i>to make excuses. When artist's block strikes, the solution is to either teach a class or take a class. So, I signed up for a five-day workshop taught by <a href="http://sandymaudlin.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sandy Maudlin</a> and hosted by the <a href="http://fairbornart.org/" target="_blank">Fairborn Art Association</a>. Yesterday was the final day, and I'm reporting in to you, my patient followers.<br />
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We were working on Yupo (a plastic-like "paper") with watercolor and liquid acrylics. There's a heavy learning curve, and the process was incredibly frustrating. You should have heard us whine and groan! Here's the beginning of my first painting:<br />
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All the dark blue is painter's tape that masks the parts of the painting that should be white. The paint bleeds under the edges, which is part of the process, and you have to plan for that. After the whites are taped, the entire surface (including taped areas) is covered with the first layer of color. There is no controlling the paint as it puddles, bleeds, and streaks.<br />
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When this layer is completely dry, apply another layer of masking tape to protect the areas that should be light in color. Then, apply another layer of paint. Then another layer of tape to protect the mid-tones, followed by another layer of paint. Repeat as many times as you can stand.<br />
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The frustration comes from tearing all those itty-bitty pieces of tape and the fact that more and more of the painting is covered by layers of blue tape. After a couple of layers, it's impossible to tell what should be covered or painted next. Unfortunately, I didn't photograph the stage after the tape came off. What you end up with does indeed look like a batik print, with paint that has bled through the "cracks" created by the tape.<br />
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If you did a good job with your planning and taping and layering, the painting will be close to completed when the tape comes off. Me, I ended up painting maybe 80%. At the end of the all the hours and hours of work, this is what I was left with:<br />
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Sandy was honest with her students. This technique is tedious, frustrating, scary, and extremely time-consuming. But the end product has a texture you can't get any other way.<br />
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Will I ever paint another painting using this technique? I seriously doubt it! I'm not <i>that</i> much of a masochist. For <i>good</i> examples of what can be achieved using masking tape batik, see <a href="http://sandymaudlin.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sandy's blog</a>.<br />
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Tomorrow, I will show you my second painting, which uses an entirely different technique.<br />
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I'm in the process of setting up my gallery at Daily Paintworks (DPW). This may take a little time (a day or two), but it will enable me to actually sell my paintings online!<br />
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Like most artists, I have a terrible time pricing my work. Several artists have told me I'm pricing way too low. (If so, why aren't my paintings flying off the wall like hotcakes?) DPW offers an online auction as well as straight purchase, so in the beginning I may put some things up for auction to see what my "market will bear." <br />
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Also, any painting I post here on Blogger will automatically be picked up by DPW. So if you see something here, you can buy it there! That includes my "Starling Flight" shown above. <br />
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Wish me luck!Susan Bertkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09834767515824503982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081323831750490962.post-61010015841577221632015-01-19T13:36:00.000-05:002015-01-19T13:36:37.787-05:00Melchior<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been working on this commissioned piece for a while, and it's finally finished and delivered.<br />
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I know next to nothing about sailing ships, so that was a challenge. The transition from storm to dawn was a major part of the concept, and I found <i>no</i> reference as to what that might look like--so I studied lots of photos and just made it up. As you can imagine, this gave Inner Critic lots of material to torture me with; but then, she is <i>never</i> satisfied and can just shut up, thank you very much! The <i>client</i> is thrilled with it, so I consider it a success.<br />
<i>Melchior</i>, acrylic on canvas, 36"x24". Susan Bertkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09834767515824503982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081323831750490962.post-69060615826298775312014-09-04T07:00:00.000-04:002015-02-18T13:17:02.250-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Susan Bertkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09834767515824503982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081323831750490962.post-18095291455002822972014-07-11T11:45:00.000-04:002015-02-18T13:17:43.661-05:00Meetup at Carriage Hill MetroPark July 12I don't think I've specifically mentioned that I started a Meetup group called <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Draw-Pardners/" target="_blank">Draw, Pardners!</a> for artists or wannabe artists in the Dayton area.We meet on the second Saturday of the month to draw, sketch, and/or paint at various locations. The painting of Cemex Reserve was done during a Draw, Pardners! Meetup. (See earlier post.)<br />
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This Saturday we're meeting at Carriage Hill MetroPark in Huber Heights, OH. If you are reading this post and want to join us, feel free. See the meetup site for information.<br />
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<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/misukartist/" target="_blank">Misuk Goltz</a> recently asked me to do a demo for her Thursday Paint-In at the <a href="http://www.fairbornart.org/" target="_blank">Fairborn Art Assn</a>. "Twenty to twenty-five minutes," she said. And this is what I came up with.<br />
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The subject has been one of my favorites since my first watercolor class. I love the way the paint flows down the page to create the illusion of rain and wind. And I've loved painting small trees since that first instructor showed me the wonders of liner/rigger brushes and how the small branches grow out of the big branches wherever there is a convex curve.<br />
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The ivy growing up the left tree trunk was the result of an accident. My paper wasn't quite dry, and the paint bled when I painted the trunk. I couldn't clean it up without it being obvious, so I overpainted with some Terre Verte (a fairly opaque green), et voila! -- ivy.Susan Bertkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09834767515824503982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081323831750490962.post-14304678499095858522014-07-07T15:54:00.000-04:002014-07-07T15:54:00.223-04:00Third Place in the En Plein Air Exhibition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My little watercolor took Third Place in the 2014 En Plein Air Juried Art Exhibition sponsored by the <a href="http://www.bwgreenway.org/" target="_blank">B-W Greenway Community Land Trust</a> and <a href="http://www.fairbornart.org/" target="_blank">Fairborn Art Association</a>. The challenge this year was to paint on location at the <a href="http://www.gcparkstrails.com/parks-Cemex.html" target="_blank">Cemex Reserve</a> in Fairborn. This is a restored wetlands, and I was continually serenaded by the many birds who have made a home there. Susan Bertkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09834767515824503982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081323831750490962.post-64997645617046303722014-05-17T21:05:00.000-04:002014-05-17T21:05:36.286-04:00"Merced Creek" won a ribbon!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Susan Bertkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09834767515824503982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081323831750490962.post-72923390960782944292014-03-06T12:38:00.000-05:002014-03-06T12:38:11.447-05:00How my show went...<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">February 2014 was the third coldest and snowiest February on record. I'm blaming this for the fact that only a few people braved the weather to come see my show the first three weeks. Mother Nature was kinder the last week, and I had a pretty good turnout on the 23rd. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I want to thank everyone who came to admire and (YES!) buy my work. I am particularly grateful to my friend Bev, who kept me company, learned a little about painting in watercolor, and <i>helped me take down the show </i>at the end. Now that's a true friend!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you wanted to come and missed it, the good news is that I will be back at the FAA Gallery in October. So you'll have four more opportunities to see the show. At that time I plan to have prints and note cards of my most popular paintings available, in addition to the original works.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">See you in October!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"></span>Susan Bertkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09834767515824503982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081323831750490962.post-41859692815515572762014-02-18T17:26:00.000-05:002014-02-18T17:26:43.380-05:00Come see my show at the Fairborn Art Association gallery!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.fairbornart.org/" target="_blank">Fairborn Art Association</a> Gallery </b></span> </span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Watercolors, Acrylics, Pastels, and Drawings representing thirty years of art-making.</span></h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Iris #2 (c) Susan Bertke</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">My watercolor painting "Iris #2" won an Honorable Mention in the <a href="http://www.fairbornart.org/">Fairborn Art Association</a>'s Members' Choice contest at the May meeting. Given the quality of the paintings that were submitted by the members, this was a real ego boost for me.</span>Susan Bertkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09834767515824503982noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081323831750490962.post-80448110544818120912013-06-06T11:27:00.001-04:002013-06-06T11:27:22.965-04:00Exploring Acrylics, Class #3<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rose of Sharon #1 (c) Susan Bertke 2013</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Tuesday was #3 in my Exploring Acrylics class at <a href="http://www.fairbornart.org/">Fairborn Art Association</a>. We explored the use of acrylics as transparent watercolor. Most of my students had only minimal previous exposure to watercolors. The idea of dropping color into a wet background and letting it flow was definitely a new technique for them. They also got a taste of negative painting in the leafy area. </span> Susan Bertkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09834767515824503982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081323831750490962.post-55892579251543975102013-05-16T21:23:00.000-04:002013-05-16T21:23:07.137-04:00<span style="font-size: x-large;">The past couple of months have been really busy for me, art-wise<span style="font-size: x-large;">!</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the paintings I did in <br />Joe Fettingis' workshop</td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-size: x-large;">I joined the <a href="http://www.fairbornart.org/">Fairborn Art Association</a> last year, and the members have been very helpful and encouraging. Through the FAA I signed up to do an acrylic demo on April 10 in Xenia, Ohio, at the <a href="http://www.gccoa.org/">Greene County Council On Aging</a> Senior Creativity Expo. It was a great experience, and I hope to support them in future expos. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;">Last week, I attended a 3-day workshop with <a href="http://www.jfettingis.com/">Joe Fettingis</a>, NWS, at the FAA gallery in Fairborn, Ohio. If you have an opportunity to go to one of his workshops, I heartily recommend it.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;">I submitted three paintings to the FAA<span style="font-size: x-large;">'s annual members sho<span style="font-size: x-large;">w. (Sadly, I didn't win any awards.)</span></span> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;">Starting next week I'll be teaching an 8-week class called "Exploring Acrylics" at the FAA gallery on Tuesday afternoons (May 21 thru July 9). So I've been preparing for that. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;">AND I've been working on a large commissioned painting for a friend.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">So if I haven't been keeping <span style="font-size: x-large;">up with my blog, I hope you'll understand!</span></span><br />
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Susan Bertkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09834767515824503982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081323831750490962.post-76731232646590308342013-02-05T00:30:00.000-05:002013-04-17T00:12:50.282-04:00A Face Only a Wife Could Love<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Horny B*stard" (c) Susan Bertke<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Shortly after we were married, I told my husband a joke. He returned from his next business trip with this little guy. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> The joke: There was an kindergarten teacher who was doing a lesson for her inner city kids about animals. She'd hold up a picture of an animal, and the kids would shout out the name of the animal. They identified cats, dogs, mice, pigeons, even horses. Then the teacher held up a picture of a white-tailed deer with a magnificent rack of antlers. That stumped them.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> "I'll give you a hint," she said. "Imagine your dad comes home from work, and he greets your mom with a big kiss. What does she call him?"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Puzzled, one little boy looked at his friend and whispered, "Do you supposed that's a horny b*stard?"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> So now I have my very own blue-furred horny b*stard. Ugly or not, I love him.</span></span>Susan Bertkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09834767515824503982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081323831750490962.post-64494487932158510502013-02-03T19:51:00.003-05:002013-02-03T20:37:29.897-05:00Landscape Doodle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;"> This year I've spent a lot of time cooling my heels in doctors' waiting rooms, so I decided to make productive use of the time and took along a sketch book. Generally, I'm not confident drawing without a subject in front of me, so I started doodling landscape elements: rocks, grass, trees...and this is what I ended up with.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> This was done with a Pilot Precise V5 pen and a green Pilot Razor Point. </span>Susan Bertkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09834767515824503982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081323831750490962.post-13777383210237907622012-10-11T14:46:00.000-04:002012-10-11T14:46:40.853-04:00Home Repairs<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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All those drunken windows and the tilting foundation and tower were just more than I could stand. So I got out my tool box and went to work. Neither would get me a job in an architectural firm, but I hope you agree that version #2 is an improvement.<br />
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P.S. The different color balance is from different lighting conditions. Neither is an exact match to the original.<br />
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Yesterday, one of my students was working on a painting for this year's Christmas card. I had that in mind today when I dug through my "morgue" and found a house I'd photographed years ago. (Sorry, I don't remember where it's located.) Anyway, I changed the season to winter, hung some bows and a wreath on windows and door, et voila! It was fun, and I got it done in an afternoon.<br />
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I'm reasonably happy with it. Or at least I thought I was. Now, as I stare at it on my screen, I see a blue million little flaws. Maybe I can claim the builder was a little bit drunk on this job?<br />
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"Christmas Card House", about 10x10 inches, watercolor on 140# Lanaquarelle.Susan Bertkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09834767515824503982noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081323831750490962.post-47866862300500724642012-10-09T10:50:00.000-04:002012-10-09T10:53:16.059-04:00Paint the Forest, Not the Trees<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is an exercise in "negative painting." I started by painting the entire surface with yellow ochre. Then I painted around the foreground trees with Pthalo blue. Then I painted around the next layer of trees with more blue. Repeat. The idea is that you never actually paint the trees themselves--only the spaces around them. Yeah, I know. Clear as mud!<br />
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Actually, the trick is to avoid mud. The more different pigments used, the muddier the color becomes. (See my previous comments about the petals of flowers.) So I stuck to Pthalo blue until the very last, darkest layer, where I used Daniel Smith Blue Apatite Genuine.<br />
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The other challenge in this exercise is compositional: there is a tendency to have "cookie cutter trees" that are uniformly spaced, sized and/or slanted, which is not good. So each time I paint around a tree, I have to make sure that it is different from the trees on either side of it. Each tree is an individual, not a clone. Not as easy as it sounds, believe me.<br />
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I'll use this as a demo painting for this afternoon's class.Susan Bertkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09834767515824503982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081323831750490962.post-56524993561989056162012-09-29T14:05:00.000-04:002012-09-29T14:05:30.263-04:00When you don't have fresh flowers, use silk!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I needed a quick "model" for a demo in my Tuesday watercolor class in Kettering, so I grabbed my digital camera and shot a dozen macro pictures of silk flowers I had on hand. I liked this shot the best. I didn't take a lot of pains with the drawing (obviously) because my students were primarily interested in figuring out how to make petals look 3D and how to not get "lost" in all those petals. Still, I think the resulting painting came out pretty well...</div>
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For any students out there, this was a limited palette painting. I used quinacridone red and permanent alizarin crimson (both pigment PV19) for the petals. The background is a mixture of quinacridone red and pthalo green just slopped on very loosely. Background petals were "desaturated" with just a TINY bit of pthalo green. There is a little bit of negative painting here and there at the bottom. The yellow center was added with Naples yellow and American Journey Sour Lemon.<br />
If you have trouble keeping the color of your flower petals bright and clean, try to avoid mixing two or more different pigments together. It's very easy to unintentionally include a neutralizer in the mix. For example, if I'd mixed a red-orange with alizarin crimson, the slight blue cast in the alizarin would have dulled the red-orange a bit, and vice versa (blue and orange are opposites on the color wheel and neutralize each other).<br />
Now, if I really wanted to make this daisy a bit more orange, the way to do it would be to paint an underpainting of yellow, dry it completely, and then paint red over it. The yellow glows through the red, and the result is gorgeous. (Yes, this means you have to think ahead. LOL)Susan Bertkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09834767515824503982noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081323831750490962.post-61839263088725255212012-02-09T18:17:00.000-05:002012-02-09T18:17:09.689-05:00CascadeHere is the finished version of "Cascade." As you can see, it's come a long way since the underpainting was done.<br />
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