Paint Nite 10.5 and 11

[aome]

(I really wish DW would fix whatever problem is causing the cross-posting failures with LJ. Or that LJ would fix it. Or whatever

Comments

[spiffikins]

You picked an intimidating painting to do on your own! Very impressive - your buildings turned out amazing and your bridge is very cool! I actually have not ever been on, or really ever seen, the new Bay Bridge :D

[aome]

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who can't manage to get a decent orange from the obvious concoction of red + yellow. Might try to buy a small amount of proper orange. Still trying to get a proper green - Michael's has been sold out. As for my blue - it LOOKS like cobalt blue, but it definitely doesn't get me the muted sky blues when you add white. Just more of a smoky lighter colour. I've been very thankful to have my teal/turquoise color, and to have small bottles of both a light tan and a regular brown (the tan and brown are thinner paints, but they'll do). I did try adding yellow to the teal to get green, but it wasn't a deep enough shade of blue on its own; I ended up doing cobalt + teal + yellow in various combinations until I got something sort of mossy, and added a smidgen of white for better opacity, lol.

But I've done three paintings at this point, of that scene, so I need to stopYeah, I've seen other paintings of similar water compositions - either tropical or lake - to things I've done and then I think maybe I

[spiffikins]

I mixed up my blues - I have cobalt and pthalo blues - the pthalo is dark. The one the teacher said was more grey/purple was the ultramarine blue.

I don't understand how blues that look the same in the bottle, act so differently on the canvas!

On the one hand - doing similar paintings, is practice, so they should come out better each time? But on the other hand, how many paintings of the same scene do I really need?

[hamsterwoman]

Ooh, I lie the way your Bay Bridge came out! I'm impressed you were able to do that all on your own!

[aome]

Thank you!