Well, I keep falling further and further behind. I guess I'm going to have to settle for doing a painting every day I can until I hit 30 paintings. Tonight's subject was an old pickup I saw rotting in a yard.
I am semi happy with it. I used palette knifes for the leaves. The colors in the truck were very hard to match - especially working from a picture and working at night. I did this on a 6x8 canvas board. I ordered a whole bunch of them from dickblick.com for really cheap. They were something like .57 cents a canvas. I also got some more oils from the website and they were really reasonable. I can't wait to try them out. I got cobalt blue, permanent blue and naples yellow!
The green I mixed for the truck tonight was (surprise) viridian. It's more of an emerald green, but by mixing I was able to achieve kind of an army green on the truck and I used the same base color to mix the grass.
Where is the front of the truck you might ask? Well that's a good question! It was gone, so I didn't even try to paint it in. I love the way the truck is kind of being reclaimed by nature.
There are two pictures because I realized after looking at the truck last night that I forgot to paint in the mirror, so I did that this morning and tried to take a better picture of it.
