It's been 31 years since I've put a drop of paint on a paintbrush for anything more demanding than painting a wall. Now that my midlife crisis is in full swing and it's all "downhill" from here, I thought I'd pick it up again .... painting that is.
I've decided to do a painting a day for 30 days. Why 30 days? Well, to me that's long enough to see if I want to stick with it. I tend to have a short attention span so I might not even make that, but I plan to try! I am inspired by all these people who do a painting a day for a year. Now that's a commitment!
I started on Sunday and here's the pitiful result! The only thing I like about this is the highlights on the tomatoes. The rest is crap. The stem colors are all wrong, the background is too yellow without any depth, and my pencil smudged into the oils creating a muddy mess!
I never was much of a "painter" in my youth. I dabbled in it, but could never get the colors and textures to suit me. I always preferred pencil drawings and my favorite subject was portraits. This is out of my comfort range, and that's good. I'm going to try using lots of color.
The first thing I learned was - pencil smudges can mess up the whole painting! Next time I will try using some hair spray to see if that keeps the pencil from bleeding into the paint.
This one just took an hour to paint, and I guess that shows. It doesn't really look "finished" to me.
