A friend from work got me into this oil painting class. She's an interesting person. She does boxing, paints, knits, writes and lived in the Yukon for two years and her car has flames on the side. Yep she's cool. Maybe she's Ernest Hemingway reborn. Oh and her paintings are really good.
The class was small which was nice because even though I've painted with acrylics a lot, I needed a lot of hands on advice to get started. What I learned this evening was how to transfer my image to the canvas by making a yellow ochre grid, the colour wheel, colour theory and how to thin my paints. I'm painting a jellyfish from a photo I took at the aquarium in Boston. What was I thinking. have you seen how many tentacles those things have?
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