30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 8

haunted-pumpkin

I have to admit that today was the hardest so far for the 30 Paintings in 30 Days challenge.  My original painting did not turn out the way I wanted and I decided to not post it.  And I had no plans to start a new piece today after a long day at work.  But, I thought I should try and give it a shot.  The drawing of this piece was really fighting me.  I didn’t know what type of paint I wanted to use on it after the questionable results I have been getting on previous paintings.

One thing I have been trying to pay attention to on social media is the number of followers some artists are getting on Instagram.  I’ve found some representational oil painters who have over a hundred thousand followers and I was shocked.  That is the highest I’ve been seeing for artists.  I have also noticed that all the highest, I’ve seen, are oil painters and water color painters are not even close in followers.  This is starting to make me think I need to focus on oil painting and stop using these other types of paints.

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 5

Hood

While I stayed with my same color palette so far, this time I decided to use water color paint for this day’s painting.  But, I did run into a problem that made this painting a bit challenging.  I used a spray fixative to seal the drawing and that made the water color paint bead up and made for a very streaky result.

Oh well, I guess there is always tomorrow.

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