A Painting A Day

Changed the angle and the background on the roses
Also painted this one during the day so had strong side light coming through the window
This is an 11 x 14

Ah, the illusive brown egg shell! I tried the color recipe suggested to me by http://yeshuaschildart.wordpress.com/ and that was the correct base color. As I looked at the egg shell more, I used a pinkish mauve tone of that color in the mid range and more yellow in the light range. I think the egg shell has been eluding me because I think it has multiple colors in it. Perhaps that's because of the light from within? But overall I am much happier with the way this color turned out. ;)

It was surprisingly challenging to do this painting. The shape of the plate was particularly difficult and the color of the eggshells still eludes me. I wish some of these daily painters would post their color recipe for brown egg shells! If I get it right, I will post it.

Today is also a milestone in my painting a day journey, today marks the 20th day in a row that I've done a painting. Yay! I'm very proud of myself for sticking to it.