I don't know if this was too ambitious of me, but I thought I'd try painting glass today. I grabbed my husband's Bicardi bottle and a glass and set them up outside and started painting.
I don't know quite what to think about this. I really didn't have enough time to finish it. I think the Bicardi bottle is ok. It was hard for me to judge how much detail to put in. I'm trying to work loosely and I think I put a little too much detail in it. I was happy with the colors I mixed for the bottle. The shapes are a bit distorted but the idea was to try to paint glass. I think that's why I put it on a white tablecloth. My husband said I shouldn't have used white for that. Speaking of the tablecloth, I didn't have time to put in any detail on it either. I feel like it needs more work to be finished.
Just a couple of notes of things I learned. For one, the mosquitoes were killing me, so I am going to have to start working earlier in the day. The other thing was I got the canvases on sale at Michaels and I don't think they were gessoed. Is that how you spell it? Anyway, the paint just didn't seem to go on the canvas very well, and the cloth showed through too much. I bought a lot of the canvases on sale so tomorrow I'll gesso all of them to get them better prepared.
