Monday, February 14, 2011

TOMATOES



I painted this in my moleskin as the first painting before I send it on to Kay Wyne. She will then paint whatever she would like to in our moleskin exchange. I am so happy that our first painting was in our own sketchbook. I gessoed the paper and then approached the painting as I would when painting on a canvas or board. When applying the ground I made a horrible mess! Then my moleskin fell off the easel and that was an additional mess. I managed to clean everything and continue, but if it had been someone else's I would still be totally stressed!

5 comments:

  1. I finally found us and yay for us!
    Oh how I laughed at the gessoing mess, so sorry, but surely that has to be part of the fun in it...right?

    Love your dramatic shadows and lovely neutral background.

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  2. Love your neutral background! it really makes the tomatoes and fabulous shadows pop!

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  3. Kay Wyne can't wait to get your moleskin!!! And I need to get on the stick to try to keep up with everyone.....Love this painting, and looking forward to participating.

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  4. Thanks again for setting up this blog, Linda. You are off to a good start with these beautiful red tomatoes...mess and all. Know how you feel, I was all thumbs when I made that first mark in my brand new moleskin. Think I'm finally over the terror of it all!

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  5. Beautiful intuitive placement of the forms, as usual, Linda!

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