I certainly stirred up a lot of questions.
I wanted to practice the idea of limited strokes and decided we should paint something with just 15 strokes. The idea of this is to make you think ahead. You need to plan each stroke, mix enough color, load your brush and make that color last for the length of your stroke. Peggi Kroll Roberts has a video on this specific challenge and my friend V....Vaughan frequently practices this (both with much better results.)
I did a couple this week when I went to paint with some friends at a local farm/market. You will see my scene more fleshed out very soon.
Gardening
12x6 (roughly) oil on canvas
©2011 Robin Cheers
7-stroke to Place
9x13 oil on canvas
7 Stroke Apple
4x 4.5 oil on canvas
©2011 Diana Moses Botkin
Spring
6X4 oil on canvas
©2011 Ruth Andre
One Duck in 15 Strokes
10x10 oil on canvas
©2011 Suzanne Berry
3 comments:
Hi Robin, thanks for sharing this with us! The paintings all turned out so well, and I would definitely like to try this myself. Thanks again! :)
Thank you for "making us" do this exercise, Robin! I dreaded it so much but learned a lot and hope to get some more of these warm-ups painted soon.
it was a wonderful challenge robin. ignore the brat, she always wants to show off is all. thank you, it was fun....i think! and, as always, i love what you did!
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