April 14, 2008 - 8"x10", acrylic on canvas board
After years watching me collect art and listening to me wonder aloud if I might have any talent, Kim (my wife) gave me a set of acrylic paints, brushes and a 5 hour workshop at University Art’s Marconi store with David Lobenberg. for my birthday.
June 14, 2008, The day of the workshop. The class seems to be a mish-mash of the experienced and inexperienced. We’re given a computer print-out of an apple and a lime, with an outline tracing of them. We use transfer paper to trace the outline onto the canvas board.
We begin filling in color. Red, then yellow on the apple and it’s starting to actually look like something. I blend color to darken the red on one side. I think I can do this. Next is the lime and I’m not so happy with this, and the apple’s stem is terrible, but that’s okay. The background doesn’t come out the color I’m shooting for either, but it looks good, and the shadows look really good. I added some red and green respectively to the shadows underneath the apple and lime.
June 14, 2008, The day of the workshop. The class seems to be a mish-mash of the experienced and inexperienced. We’re given a computer print-out of an apple and a lime, with an outline tracing of them. We use transfer paper to trace the outline onto the canvas board.
We begin filling in color. Red, then yellow on the apple and it’s starting to actually look like something. I blend color to darken the red on one side. I think I can do this. Next is the lime and I’m not so happy with this, and the apple’s stem is terrible, but that’s okay. The background doesn’t come out the color I’m shooting for either, but it looks good, and the shadows look really good. I added some red and green respectively to the shadows underneath the apple and lime.
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