Yeay! Finally have some pieces completed! This first was taken from a book I mentioned earlier (100 Creative Drawing Ideas). Take an object and focus on a single point that does not represent the object as a whole. Since I'm surrounded by toys, I decided to use what's around. Can you tell what it is? I intend to transfer this into an acrylic painting on a larger canvas.
Which brings me to my next piece. I finally did it. I bought paints (Golden brand) and some new brushes. I watched a YouTube video of an artist. Her segments are called Karrie on Canvas. She's really fun to watch. One of her videos was an abstracted flower piece. Now, I didn't follow her 100% but I used it as a source of inspiration. The whole point of the exercise was to loosen up and just paint. So that's what I did!
It took some additional time since I am quite rusty with my color theory. For example, the background was a much brighter red at one point, the table was purple, and the vase was yellow. I think the end product is more than acceptable. Especially since it's the first acrylic painting I've done in over 10 years.
Speaking of color theory, I
REALLY need to brush up on it. I have an exercise I found in "Acrylic Painting for Dummies". You paint the same scene, but the first one is in one color only. The colors are to range from pure white to black with the color gradation in between. The second piece uses 2 complimentary colors, and third with either 3 colors for the full color wheel. I think I'm going to paint a really large color wheel that can double not only as a reference piece but also as an art piece I can hang in my living room/dining room and it wont look out of place (our house is full of bright colors). Since I don't have a work space, I work at the dining room table so it would be nice to have it
right there.
In conclusion, Yeay! I finished two pieces!! Feel darn right proud of myself. I hope you enjoy them too.
PS. If you haven't go to the Google Art Project yet, you must go, go now! :)
Colors 1: Prisma Colored Pencils, Strathmore 80#
Colors 2: Golden Acrylics, canvas board
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How I wish I had taken or could take a class in it!! There's an exercise in "Acrylics for Dummies" that does a one color, two color, and three color paintings. Essentially you do three paintings of the same scene but with one color, then it's complimentary color, and finally three colors or you can use the whole spectrum. So I started with a single color exercise in Ultramarine Blue. Only white, ultramarine, and black were used. Pretty excited how it came out. I may just use Ultramarine Blue for a number of works so I can really get a feel and understanding of this color. 
