Let's have a pARTy!

Not long ago, I went to a painting party with some friends. We sat in a room, much like a classroom, drinking wine and painting. We had an instructor showing us the way. After all was said and done, we learned how to paint a city skyline. I've since bought myself some professional artist paint and went to town with my own paintings. I really like abstract pieces like this. The vibrant colors are highly attractive to me. I also found a place that sells art supplies online so I don't have to leave the house to continue my new-found passion. Keep your passions alive and no matter how messy painting is, you can never create bad art and it is the most free form of expression!

The Pursuit of Color

I've decided to give this blog another chance. Instead of talking about my own art, I'd like to discuss artists and selected works. I want to know about processes, mediums, utensils, equipment, and inspiration. I've found myself more intrigued on other artists processes and wanting to believe the art that is made. I'm going to start with how we create color and the mediums in which we produce color.

Watercolors. They create an opaque appearance. Almost transparent. It creates natural texture. A wet, yet, grainy feel to the parchment it has been laid on. More water creates more transparency. Less water creates oily textures. It is one of the mediums artist paint with that is difficult to control, yet can create some of the most beautiful colors imaginable.

Watercolors have been around since painting began. It started with mixing water with other pigment sources to spread color on a base. German printmaker Albrecht Durer was an early Renaissance found the medium ideal for small, detailed studies. He creates very realistic images with such a seemingly transparent medium.

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I'm not sure where I want to go with this blog, I haven't found time in my life recently to create anything of my own. So I think in the meantime I will post a link to my tumblr account that I have been reblogging paintings I like myself.

When time allows I will start creating and will then post on here.
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