Learning How to Paint Digitally - A Light Bulb

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I’m learning to paint digitally. This light bulb is my first effort. Learning new skills is tiring. After an hour of painting — attempting to paint — I was overcome with exhaustion. I fought off the desire to take a nap and ate some grapes and baked sweet potatoes. Tomorrow I’ll paint Buddy Butterfly under this light bulb as he explains his brilliant idea for getting over the monstrous border wall.

And, I’ve been putting off coming up with a new schedule…a schedule with realistic deadlines. I’ll sleep on it.

Tomato, anyone?

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I spent a few hours watching acrylic painting for beginners courses today. Afterwards I decided to paint a tomato in acrylic gouache. It’s called gouache but it’s not really gouache. The difference is that acrylic gouache is acrylic paint thinned down with water. When it dries, it cures and becomes a plastic film that’s waterproof and impossible to reactivate. Gouache, on the other hand, is water-soluble and can be re-activated.

I used three colors for this painting and mixed the greens and reddish-oranges using yellow ochre, cobalt blue, permanent red, and threw in some black and white just to see what would happen. Color mixing is a whole new experience for me.

Tomato or apple? The leaves tell me it’s a tomato.