Day 5

Gargoyle

(6x8", Oil) Price: $120.00 Framed!!  SOLD

Here is the Gargoyle! I'm so pleased with how this turned out. Although, it looks dark here, the original looks quite luminous.

6x8" seems to be my size de rigueur lately. It's such a comfortable shape to use when painting small still lifes. Not too big and not too small. Not too wide and not too thin. Well, I limited my palette to only a few colours this time: Burnt Sienna, Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Yellow Light, Transparent Gold Ochre and Titanium White. The background base was formed using the 'Sienna, Ultramarine, and T. white, and allowed to dry first. You know - all those backgrounds I create using left over paint on the palette? Well, I was starting to run out of them, so I've been happily making more in a variety of sizes after I finish painting each day. I've noticed that a dry oil base allows for less drag on the brushes when laying paint. A smoother tooth, so to speak. I tried using an acrylic tinted canvas as a base for the Pumpkin/Skull painting a few days ago, but I didn't like the feel of the surface beneath the brush. I really like my oil backgrounds!

Oh, and by the by: I only used one brush for this entire painting - a 1/2" Flat (Synthetic).

Hope you like today's result as much as I do.

See you tomorrow
Marianne