It was a windy night. Two lone painters gathered at a home nestled in the deep woods of Jacksonville North Carolina. Each on a quest to bring life to an all white canvas. One succeeded very well, the other..... Oh well, I will show it to you anyway! This was by far the most difficult of all the subjects I have tackled so far. That's right, it is harder than fruit! I never really got the color I was seeing and the spoon that was in it was too ambitious for me. I enjoyed trying to get it to take form. It was interesting how many times Bernie and I wiped our canvases and started over. The most challenging part of this was the lighting in the room. If we turned on a light so we could see what we were doing it threw off the light on the subject so we had a directional light pointing up and that kept causing our shadows to fall on our palettes. Now you can understand why getting color was so difficult. This was also painted with new brushes my wife got me along with my own easel she bought too! BTW she also got me real paints that go on like butter instead of tar! I really did have fun though and am looking forward to getting better. Please feel free to leave comments.
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Dean... your hard work paid off... this may be one of your best works to date. You are consistently GROWING! Those real brushes and paints do make a difference don't they? We did struggle through this sitting... I worked on mine about another half hour after you left... just a little detail on the spoon handle left and I'm finished. I think one of the most important things about painting is not being scared to wipe the canvas clean and start over instead of picking at something that isn't working. Good job on this one... what did Patty think?
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