After being at Hereford hospital on Tuesday I was glad that I had a quiet class on Saturday.Jenny was with me for the first time and Sara for the 7th.
We were using acrylic and everyone opted to use the blues tones rather than the purples and greys to paint this picture.
Once we had the first coat on and dried it became easier!
The paint was still drying quickly so I got the special medium out which prolongs the working time of the paint.
When it came time to paint in the moon there was a bit of alteration going on for a while as the moons got bigger-Jenny had a great eye and managed to get a perfect circle right away! We used a special holographic paint on the moon which is quite subtle, but catches the light and has lots of multi coloured twinkles in it.,
when it came to doing the foliage it was hard to decide which colour to use as highlight it. I used all the colours-green, gold, bronze and violet to show them the results.
Jenny decided to use the green and bronze and Sara used the violet.
The results were stunning--and both students went home with some acrylic varnish to coat their painting with after 24 hours.
The varnish will make a big big difference to the paintings as well as protecting them .
You need to leave the pictures for 24 hours to make sure the paint is completly dry otherwise you will find the painting starting to crack after a time-and that is not good!
As usual when teaching at home the parrots were a a bit of a distraction-especialy Jake who was constantly chatting away.
Bill put both of them outside as the weather was warm and sunny, and Sara was able to give Paddy a lovely shower with the spray bottle which he adores!
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