Maybe we should add a little bit of purple, too... [ with a new, smaller brush, he'll dip into a deep mauve and paint a wide triangle on the canvas. ] What do you think?
Nothing wrong with that! You should have seen the mess me and the rest of Summer made while I was stuck on this one assignment. The colors were all over the place, and none of it made sense at all!
But I think it's good to do abstracts sometimes. It helps get you out of your head and away from trying to be totally perfect.
Well, if that's all you're worried about, think of it this way: we're putting down a base layer of color, like an underpainting. Later, once this is all over, we can always come back and make a full, more detailed painting of it. These colors would be great for a waterscape, you know? It could be something like a beach, or a dock! Oh, or even a view from on board a ship!
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Hm... Yes, mayhap that is what I need. What would you like to paint?
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[ he's pulling out a fresh canvas now! ]
Here. A new canvas so we don't have to worry about messing anything else up. I think I'm going to start with a nice green - what are you thinking?
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No harm in starting with what typically works well together—how about some blues, then?
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[ meanwhile, he'll squeeze out some green onto a palette and take out a wide brush and just... sweep a few strokes over the canvas. ]
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Here.
[ he takes a fan brush, dips it into slate blue, and lightly dabs the brush over the green ]
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Maybe we should add a little bit of purple, too... [ with a new, smaller brush, he'll dip into a deep mauve and paint a wide triangle on the canvas. ] What do you think?
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[ but he chuckles ]
I feel not unlike a child dipping into their very first paints.
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But I think it's good to do abstracts sometimes. It helps get you out of your head and away from trying to be totally perfect.
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