Another great class again on Monday... but like my online class on Saturday night I was pushed out of my comfort zone again, where we just started painting directly onto the canvas or in my case my art journal....
Jen Hall is another artist whose work I really admire and I have enjoyed doing serveral of her classes now...
Today we were painting flowers..
Flowers for Mother''s Day...
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| This was the teaser for our class this week.... |
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Jen usually give you a list of tools or paints that you will need to complete the class the day before hand...
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| What we needed to do this class.. |
Jen talked about recycling some of her old canvases by just painting them with Gesso and using them again, which is what she did with the canvas for this class...
Then that out of your comfort moment where she just took paint and applied it onto the canvas....
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| She started with putting three blobs of apricot paint on the canvas |
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| Next it was painting in three random flowers.... |
Next she added some more green circles and then some nice bright red flowers, the red flowers just help the canvas to pop..
I hadn't planned to do this painting until after I watched the tutorial but in the end I kind of worked along with Jen until I had to let the paint dry before I could do any of the pen work....
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| Getting my paints out and ready... |
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| Adding to my paint stash.... |
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| Working on my masterpiece.... |
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| My background has been done but I need to wait for it to dry now before finishing..... |
Once Jen had got it to this point, she used her heat gun to dry it off a little so she could show us how she does all the pen work and add the silver leaf....
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| Starting to do the pen work now on the painting... |
This is another area that takes me out of my comfort zone as I am a little afraid that I might ruin my work... I did do some pen work on mine but not as much as Jen did on hers. Who knows one day I might get really confident and really go for it...
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| Adding more pen work to her art... |
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| Finishing off the pen work.. |
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Then we got to see her finished work of art..
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| Jen's finished art work.. |
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I ended up finishing my painting that night and I must admit, it turned out better than I imagined...
May be I will learn to start being comfortable with this free hand sort of art with now sketching before hand....
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| My finished artwork.. |
I have been adding to my stash.. I went out and got myself some new paint brushes, especially now that I know the difference before brushes used when painting with acrylic paints and also some paintbrushes for using with watercolours...
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| My new acrylic paintbrushes... |
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| My new watercolour brushes... |
I am hoping to do a lot more sketching and painting... It is a hobby I think that I could travel with without having to take too much gear with us.....
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