Day #17 Red Shoes

The 30/30 Challenge has passed the halfway point. It's always an interesting event and a fun time to experiment with different subjects and color palettes. 

It's impossible for me to paint all thirty paintings in the 30 day time period. My painting style requires a minimum of three sessions. The first session is laying in the composition and the base colors. The next day's session is to repaint everything. Oil paint is not as substantial as you might think. Some color pigments seem to sink in or fade. All colors benefit from a second application. This is also the time for refining and working on subtle value and color shifts. This session takes the longest.

The third day's session is tweaking the painting, enhancing the highlights and dark accents and adding the "pizzazz", those bits of color and excitement.

Now this is if all goes well. If it doesn't, the whole painting may have to be wiped off and then it's back to the beginning and maybe a new subject.

So that is my explanation. Add to that the activities of daily living and life in general.....  

But it's been a fun time and tomorrow I start another painting.

Red Shoes, 5x7, oil   SOLD

This painting was available in my Ebay Store - Small Paintings.

Thanks for visiting,
Celene

Leslie Saeta's 30/30 Challenge for February 2018.

www.CeleneFarris.com