Class Work

I am 1/3 of the way through my watersoluble oils class. We've been using only primary colors plus white and working on mixing. We are using liquin to speed drying and thin the paint a little. I haven't tried using liquin with traditional oils so cannot compare the handling, but I will try it soon. We also did a value study and I chose to keep mine monochromatic. We are using some black and white photocopies of famous paintings as a base to do these exercises. Last night we started working on portraits using warm light and then cool shadows in the face. I didn't finish last night so will post it soon.



On the left, I mixed secondary colors green and violet to get "slate" colors. Then I mixed complimentary colors red and green to get some rusty browns. The liquin allows the white ground to show through the paint.