Daily Painting – Christmas Run, Two Paintings & Leftover Paint

Hi guys, so we are nearly at the Christmas run.

I’m still getting some short painting sessions in. My hand is not really up to much more, but I am still painting, so that is good.

These two were completed yesterday at the same time.

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Painting Two Canvases at Once

I know I’ve talked before about the idea of painting an abstract piece at the same time as a more formed piece.

Quite simply, I paint the leftover paint onto another canvas at the same time — sort of like wiping off brushes.

Sometimes I go in and add more paint.
Sometimes not.

Sometimes they match the main canvas and sometimes they are the opposite — often they end up being the colours I did not use, or the more primary, unmixed options.

This one has a lot of the blue and green that I used in the painting, just well mixed.

Because I’m not really thinking about it, they come out quite different to anything forced. Sometimes I can keep that looseness in the actual painting… sometimes not. It’s just something I do.

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The Painting

This is a repaint of a tiny little daily painting I did a couple of years ago.
Here you can see the paintings and the original inspiration.

I really like the sky in this one.

I’m not 100% happy with the powerlines — I feel the painting needs some left-sided balance (like the town sign in the old version). That said, I do think the new version is the better painting overall… at least in my mind.

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Colours Used

Sky:
Cadmium red light, cadmium yellow, a touch of cadmium light, a little yellow ochre, and white to desaturate slightly.

Greens:
Ultramarine and yellow ochre.

Road:
A mix of optical greys and blacks pulled from the palette.

There honestly isn’t much else in this one.

Anyway — what do you think?

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Christmas Update

We went shopping this morning and were only out for about two hours before Miss 11 decided she was “too weary to carry on.”

We hadn’t even got her anything yet — her shops were next — so naturally I was worried when she sat down on the floor saying she felt dreadful.

So… home we came.

In the car she asked for a banana, which I gave her.
I THEN discovered that despite me buying her toasted banana bread to eat earlier, she had not in fact eaten the $7 piece of banana bread, and was likely just starving.

rolls eyes

So we left the shops for likely no reason at all.
It was our last easy-access shopping trip before Christmas.

FFS.

Not super impressed.

Ah well.

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New Paints

I’ve just realised I have no photos of the new paints.

I ordered a new brand — pretty much my whole palette in Matisse Structure rather than Atelier Interactive.

Apparently the ultramarine is way nicer and more pigmented, and I can absolutely see why. I’m actually quite excited to use them.

I watched a lovely video on green mixing today and am itching to play with the new colours.

Anyway — that’s where we are.

Talk tomorrow.