Only week 2 and it's amazing what knowledge I gleaned from David Gluck. Last week we did an underpainting with Raw umber and white with mineral spirits and this week we did the plain colours. He showed me methods of checking angles and colours to see if they were the correct shade. I was really amazed at how much I did incorrectly since I'm self taught and did most by trial and error.He also sent me home with some basic drawing exercises to work on finding the main shadows and to eliminate the middle shadows.

It was a great class!

Today was my first day to have an art tutoring class with instructor David Gluck. It was great! He's a young man with an amazing amount of talent and I found I learned a great deal in the short two hours that I was there. So far so good. He set up a still life and we began an underpainting - blocking out the painting and putting in the shadow areas. I found it really helpful. I have a feeling that he'll be a good instructor and I've found someone that I can learn a great deal from.

It was a very good day!

I was never too sure that the bird of paradise flower existed only in the minds of artists as I had never seen one at any flower shops. Yesterday I saw some that were included in bouquets in the store I go by on my way to work. So I bought a bouquet on my way home from work. I tried painting it last night. This flower looks like it should have been in the dinosaur  movie "Jurasic Park". lol

 

This one makes me think of where I work.

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