A Year of Making Art: Day 7
4/26/07 Day 7
Today I made another 6" x 8" drawing, keeping the scale small in order to ease myself into art for the day.
Next I went to work on the backgrounds of the two canvasses I'm hoping will come close to Night at the Improv (see previous post). Unfortunately, on the first one I mixed up two tubes of paint: phthalo blue and purple. There was supposed to be only a tiny bit of purple and much more blue, but now that's reversed. After catching the error, I did it right on the second canvas:
Meanwhile, I did more work on another canvas I had started earlier this week. Something very weird happened with it. I'm not sure what to make of it, but here it is:
After that, I was done for the day, avoiding tackling this one:
(Note: There is a gap between the dates I'm writing and posting because I had to give myself time to get ahead in case we travel and I'm not able to post.)








