My painting weekend

yellow house

pelletier house

the flag and water front

civil war tent by the road

red barn

My painting weekend started at 9am saturday with a workshop with artist Mike Rooney hosted by the onslow county council of the arts. I have to say I was very frustrated at the end of it.  Mike was trying to get us to paint in shapes and tonal value. It was an exercise to get us to loosen up.  The part that bugged me was I was trying to get more tight and he was teaching loose! Ha! Anyway he made a challenge to try 100 paintings in 3 - 6 months (he started at 3 and then lengthened it).  He wanted us to squint down and just paint the shapes we see in the tonal value and color. Then paint the shapes we see in the shapes. The "yellow house" was what I painted that afternoon. Well, I did not bite for the challenge that day. 

The next day was an OOPS paint out at the Pelletier House in downtown Jacksonville. I tried to apply what I had learned the day before and came up with the "Pelletier House" in about 45 minutes.  It is a 6x8. I then tried to paint the side of the house with the waterfront. The flag was my center of interest.  This was a 9x 12 and I worked on it for probably 3 hours! Ugh!  At this point I was very frustrated and decided I had time to try one more and I was only going to use a pallet knife.  I then did the tent by the side of the road.  Now that was fun. Just slapping the paints on in the shapes I saw. It was a full day of sunshine, fellowship and painting.

Then came monday and I had to go to Raleigh for photography training. After I got home it was time to catch up on chores.  Once that was done I grabbed the pallet knife again and did the "red barn". It took about 30 minutes and was very relaxing. I am really looking forward to the upcoming journey to 100. Yes, I am taking him up on the challenge. Bear with me as I go. I am sure I will be doing a lot of it with the pallet knife.  As always, feel free to comment and remember to double click to enlarge the image.  Dean