2nd Day of Painting, where the wild things are.
Do you think devoting at least 2 and 1/2 hours of painting could let me finished a Pointillism artwork in weeks? If i had these goal i think i had to double up my working speed. Indeed, today i already started rendering color to those lines and sketches. The color i started with? Black. I don't know if its right to start that way, i'm just a novice artist with guts and art books as teacher. But somehow i feel like starting with the darkest color makes more easier to over lap the light tones (it needs more time since we need to wait for the first color to dry before applying the overlap colors.) or maybe because i was using acrylic paint (overlapping dark colors don't work on water colors, crayons, felt pens and colored pencils.)
So there i go... dotting the paper with black and a point 0 round brush (my favorite tip size). while doing the dotting thing it makes my mind fly as if i was dotting to nothing in particular, somehow it relaxes my mind of freeing it from anything. Then after it, you will realized the dotting didn't go to good. Careful watch should be at hand avoiding the tip of the brush to build up some pigments and the heavy dripping water after you wash and soaked it to the water jar.
lastly, don't put too much acrylic paints on the palette when in a sudden you cannot used them all. When you left them unused they dry up and hardens. Eventually they go to waste, so always remember to put only the right amount that you can only use on the particular painting session, Its where the wild things are. Knowing you're limitation, you're weakness and you're down side. Because if you had so much of everything that you can't attain just like the acrylic, it dries when left unused.
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