A Painting A Day

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.

Yay! Got a painting done today. The picture is really dark - I couldn't take a good picture of it. I keep meaning to look up how to take better pictures. These are what I believe are mirasol peppers. They are HOT! Put some in gumbo yesterday. I used surprisingly few brush strokes on this and didn't try to do detail at all.