[Susan Abston Wiley, Artist] Bad Day at Black Rock

[Susan Abston Wiley]

Mid-week at Carol Marine's workshop:  Had about 15 minutes to do each apple, and Carol promised that we would get better and better as we progressed.  I went backwards.  Struggled with color mixing, values, and time.  For the second background color, I mixed with thalo blue instead of ultramarine blue, and was pretty pleased with the lovely resulting deep teal color... until Carol came along and made me wipe it off because thalo bleeds into everything.  Running out of time now, I decided to use the wiped-down thalo color, then hated everything against it.  Carol's right when she says your instincts will help in choosing colors.  Finally scrubbed neutral over the hateful thalo background in the last apple, then wrote the word 'Apple' in frustration and gave up.  I need remedial workshop in values and color mixing.  Maybe in drawing, too.

Sorry, Carol, I did try.  I plan to cover up these apples and do something fabulous instead!

Oil, 8x8 each

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Posted By Susan Abston Wiley to Susan Abston Wiley, Artist at 4/03/2012 08:02:00 PM