Workshop Farm House with Chickens

Another farm house done on grey pressed cardboard. Oils using brush and palette knife. I am really enjoying this media and am learning to cope with the pros and cons.  One can't use the baby wipes to take off paint as one can on canvas because of the paper structure of the cardboard... but if it is still wet can be very lightly taken off with a palette knife and when dry painted over.  Not too happy with the way the chickens came out.

35 x 45 

Day 22 30 in 30 Challenge

Leslie's 30 in 30 Challenge

 20 x 20

Oils on cloth covered corrugated cardboard

Another view of Bella...  This did not come out as I wanted.... scraped it down and started again..but it still needs work... too wet to work on and tomorrow off to class.  So this will be in the pile for tweaking!!!

Oils on cloth covered corrugated cardboard using a palette knife...A little about the cloth... this is a type of cloth used  by dressmakers to test out patterns... Its a loose weave and not bleached..   I had made curtains for my daughter and had left overs.... Glued it to the cardboard and then pasted around the back.  I coated them with 1-2 coats of gesso....

The color palette... I am using a limited color palette usually consisting of the 3 basic colors  : red blue and yellow.  I usually mix my own chromatic black using ultramarine blue and raw umber.  In this painting and yesterday's ... and the next one I tried using Indigo blue instead... not so sure I like it... The red I used here is Venetian red and made some interesting oranges and pinks... the yellows I used were lemon yellow, cadmium yellow light, yellow ochre, the blues were Ultramarine blue, Prussian blue and Indigo .  The format was toned with Naples yellow.

Comments and critique most welcome!!!

Day 21 30 in 30 Challenge

Leslie's 30 in 30 Challenge

 20 x 20

Oils on cloth covered corrugated cardboard

Please meet Bella!!! She is much prettier than my painting.... she adopted us jumping over the wall from my neighbors yard.   She gets along OK with Lily our new dog we adopted from a shelter and Gingy a yard cat that also adopted us... sometimes we even get a visit from my neighbor's Peacock but haven't been able to get a good reference photo of him.....

Oils on cloth covered corrugated cardboard 20 x 20 cm..using a palette knife. I had made these formats quite a while ago and will not make any more... they are very difficult for the knife work

 I am learning quite a bit with this challenge... what subjects,size, formats that are compatible with the tools I use mainly palette knife..