8x10
Thursday was the final night of my oil painting challenge class. One of
the students had requested that we practice painting glass, so I set up
a few jars for the students to paint from.
This is the painting I did along with the class. It was an interesting
study in how the background color changes as it is viewed through the
lightly tinted jar. It was also good practice in reserving white -
resisting that urge to add too much - to make the highlights glisten.
This has been a fun class to teach. Every week we did a "challenge" and
each challenge was designed to teach the students about value, color,
light, etc. I think it was good for everyone to work on a fresh small
painting each week rather than spending several weeks on one large
intimidating canvas. It got them painting - and painting a lot -- from
life -- which is the only way to really learn. I enjoyed being able to
paint along and think they learned from watching me. I will miss it.
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