this weekend i worked on two of my paintings both 5×6″. the 5th painting is near finished a 5″ x 6″ microscopic view of staph infection. I other painting this week was a close up in the underside of a mushroom also a 5″ x 6″. I only have the under painting done on this one so far, because I don’t have a brown I like for it yet.
The staph infection i under painted with a Quinacridone Violet and then went square by square until I had it the way I wanted it. I like the depth I created in the muscle by using different values of the quinacridone violet and the thalo blue. I enjoyed the repetitive limited color palette and the dept this painting took but haven’t yet gotten lost unless you count 4 hours spent painting it. It really felt like no time at all.
I look forward to trying again but with a different technique of painting on the mushroom piece.
Plan for this week is to paint and sketch out more paintings and work on my creative paper.