Monday, November 30, 2015

Popcorn

6x6
acrylic on panel


This is my submission for this week's DailyPaintworks challenge. I can't decide if its more difficult to paint rose petals!

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16 comments:

  1. Wow! Beautiful!! You were up to the challenge.

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  2. Great painting. It is your magical way of painting shapes in the light and shapes in the shadow that makes everything you do, really awesome.

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  3. This is great! A small subject on a small canvas and you did a wonderful job.

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  4. Well done Kaethe! Can't even imagine it! Julie was spot on. You've got it going on!!

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  5. How beautifully you've made a visual delight out of these complex shapes. It's a delicious puzzle that leads your eye around all the warm buttery planes. Gosh, you're good with color, Kaethe!

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  6. Thank you all! It was a fun one to do!

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  7. Love this painting....it was gone when I went to purchase!!!:( Happy for your sale though! I love your work...you have mastered the shade end of paint....I always wonder how you do that. Do you darken with a mixed black or with the compliment? I can never seem to get it right.

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    1. I was surprised at the response this little painting got. And what a compliment to have a talented artist as yourself, want my painting! I very rarely use black. I guess you could say I use compliments. Mostly what I think I do is label the color and desaturate it. Does that make sense? I got that from Stanley Goldstein.

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    2. What does that mean to label the color and desaturate it?

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    3. All of the colors in this painting are not straight out of the tube. The background, I labeled blue but mixed with oranges and reds and white. The kernel that has a shade piece...that's yellow mixed with ultramarine and other colors. Does that make sense?

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    4. Yes,, thank you....Lori Putnam does something similar which she calls bending the color......Thank you.....cheers!

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  8. I love your popcorn Kaethe! The background colour is so sumptuous!
    I hope the new year is treating you well!

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    1. Thank you Wendy for stopping by! I hope to be back to painting soon!

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