In my attempt to improve my painting skills, I discovered that I was washing quite a bit of paint down the drain after a session of making a mess on a piece of canvas. I decided to start using the left-over paint on canvas swatches—4x4—and I've discovered I usually like the scrap bits better than the original piece I set out to create to begin with.
After painting something that left me with pinks, white, and oranges, this is what the throw-away paint gave me:
After a pathetic attempt to paint the head of a tabby cat on a bright green background, here is what I was able to make before washing out the brushes and wiping the pallet clean:
and after a simple landscape, one I actually liked in the end, here is what the left-over paint gave me:
Here's to not wasting paint, which isn't cheap, by the way. And here's to learning to paint something other than cypress trees.
After painting something that left me with pinks, white, and oranges, this is what the throw-away paint gave me:
After a pathetic attempt to paint the head of a tabby cat on a bright green background, here is what I was able to make before washing out the brushes and wiping the pallet clean:
and after a simple landscape, one I actually liked in the end, here is what the left-over paint gave me:
Here's to not wasting paint, which isn't cheap, by the way. And here's to learning to paint something other than cypress trees.
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Very appropriate effort during Earth week!
Caleb just puts waxed paper over his palette and puts it in the freezer. Paint seems to keep indefinitely.
Colorado Susan
I love the splash of orange on the first pink one.
Both the middle ones are fabulous; I especially like the way you have captured the fading colours in the distance on the left hand one.
The bottom ones look like English oaks, which I find a real pig to paint. I like the earthy ground colour on the second one.
Excellent stuff! You are really creating your own style very quickly.