Posts Tagged ‘art’
Missile Mill is now its own blog about painting ‘n stuff! This is for you, Sarah. I know, right. I had an idea. I’d like to invite people over for a day of painting. Just spend a day painting, talking, drinking lattes or whatever and snacking on Chevy’s salsa and chips. Listening to music the [...]
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Torpedo Factory #6: Finale
America, because I’m such a genius I forgot to bring a canvas to painting class tonight. I could have sworn I had six. Don’t know what the heck happened to it. But I ended up painting over last week’s. Ah. Water. Glass. This one was easier for some reason than last week. I’m going to [...]
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When painting there’s usually a moment when it clicks. When it comes together. For a while it can be scary. It doesn’t look right and it doesn’t feel right. And then at some point you take a step back and click! You see what to do and how. During class #5 it never clicked for [...]
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Snow Day: Painting Dragonflies
This is from a photo I took a few months ago. My colors aren’t true but the values are good. Unless “values” is the wrong word. 16″ x 20″ My favorite ex-bass student and one of my favorite people once gave me a hemp dragonfly necklace that I really liked. And ultimately broke/lost. Dragonflies symbolize [...]
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Oof. Look at those colors. I was supposed to make the highlights warmer and the shadows cooler. I was instructed to mix colors on the palette before putting any paint on the canvas. It made a big difference. I’ve been thinking about color mixing all week. Bought the Pantone app for the iPhone. Very cool. [...]
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Torpedo Factory #3: Colors
I should have known that this was going to be harder than I thought it would be. The lightest value is the red thing with the warm spotlight on it. You’ll notice in my painting — I was in a hurry and obsessed with the darn cloth — that the ceramic bowl is the lightest [...]
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Torpedo Factory 2: Black & White
More color value work today. White hexagon thing with paper against black or charcoal gray cloth. My cloth doesn’t seem black. Hmm. Here’s a quote from a handout: “Under ordinary conditions pure white paint is about fifty times brighter than black paint, but light-colored objects in sunshine are often several hundred times brighter than deep [...]
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Torpedo Factory
Shimay, take me away. Ladies and gentlemen, I got my butt handed to me today in the first class of the “Color: Achieve What You Envision” class at the Torpedo Factory. I haven’t painted since, like, I don’t know when. Last time I tried was with alkyds and that was a mess. I wish they [...]
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