There is probably more "wrong" with this painting, than what's correct about it. I'm posting it to show how colors can be blended using "cross hatch" brush strokes. I was teaching this week and one of my students, "P", has a very bad habit of using mainly horizontal brush strokes... the basic house painting method. When you do this, it's very difficult to blend colors or soften lines. This is a 20 minute demo I did, using alizarin, french ultramarine blue, cad yellow pale and white paints on a 9"x12" canvas pad. The whole point of this demo was to show:
1. how to quickly blend the colors using cross hatching strokes
2 you really can make almost any color out of the 3 primary colors and white
3 the use of a few selective bold strokes can give a painting a "finished" look
Maybe I should go back and make corrections in the glaringly wrong areas. What do you think??
Connie Hartsfield
It's an inspiration to us all -- what can be done in 20 minutes. Very Nice.
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