This is my third crabapple painting and to change it up I used a darker background which gave the crabapple a totally different look. It really influenced the crabapple color, using white to lighten the color made the crabapples fall flat. Discouragement set in so I put the painting away writing it off as a bad paint day. Finally yesterday and in a better mood, I tried working the crabapples again, why not, what did I have to loose. Repainting some with a light cadmium red a thought crossed my mind, what about using a bright orange highlight? Bingo, the crabapples finally popped. I have so much to learn!
Think of how bored we would all be if we didn't have anything else to learn or challenge us. Maybe I just need to think of these little paintings as experiments so discouragement doesn't set in when one fails. We learn from failures, probably more than when something goes right.
My acrylic paintings are protected by an acrylic satin varnish and I use professional acrylic paints: Winsor Newton, Liquitex and Utrecht. The Ampersand gessobord's are a museum series panel which are acid free, archival. All my paintings are signed, dated with the paintings information on the back.
Stay safe everyone, Covid has not been tamed yet.
Deborah Ann Kirkeeide copyright
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