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Saturday 6th June 2009Painting Class ~ Lessons 2 & 3During our last two lessons we have been working on our paintings. We started out using a thin brush and ochre coloured acrylic paint to draw an outline of our work onto the canvas. I still wasn't 100% sure how I wanted it to look when I started but I knew I wanted it to include foxgloves. You can just about see the outline of the foxgloves in the picture above. We then applied a wash of background colours. Once that was dry we added background colour to the foxgloves themselves in various shades of light and dark to add depth to ...
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Friday 29th May 2009Painting Class ~ Lesson 1I have recently started taking painting lessons. I have a lot of painting equipment at home and have made a few dire attempts at it but I wasn't getting the results I wanted. I decided I really needed some expert guidance on painting techniques so I asked around the community here and someone very kindly introduced me to an artist who was willing to give lessons. It turns out that there are a few other ladies interested in improving their brush strokes as well and so we started lessons. Our teacher is a very lovely Russian artist called Lena. She has been ...