Sunday, March 20, 2011

Some painting exercises ..


I have found too many things to occupy my time lately and have not been doing as much oil painting as I had hoped to.   Here are some of the exercises I have completed since I last worked from the book "Oil Painting Develop Your Natural Ability" by Charles Sovek,.  The next assignment will be working on exercise 16.  I had just glanced at this exercise and for the last week or so assumed it needed me to observe a subject out of doors. Thinking I needed a lot of sun, I have not progressed further.  Having read a little today I see I can work without bright sun. Good. I won't need to wait for three or more months until we see summer.  Lesson learned, 'don't assume' anything. 

5 comments:

  1. Great exercises! They always teach us so much. And, your green color chart is wonderful. How helpful that will be!

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  2. Thank you Pam. I am enjoying the exercises. For a change I'm following every exercise in a book instead of just looking at the pictures and reading. I'm trying to absorb some of what I am reading and doing.

    About the green chart ... thanks, I never realized how much I love green until this last year. All the wonderful shades and colors of green ... Yum.

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  3. Nancy, I wondered where you've been! This looks like it was a fun exercise. I'm looking forward to your next one . . . "exercise 16"?

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  4. Thanks Linda. I think #16 will be fun. We are having pretty nice spring like weather right now and I'm envisioning myself doing some plein air painting soon.

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  5. I remember these Sovek exercises. I think I may have told you that I once wrote to Sovek to ask him something (that I was confused about) and he wrote back! What a great artist and person he was. Looks like you understood exactly. Keep up the good work!

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