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| 'First Snow Retreating' 5x7 pastel ©Karen Margulis sold |
I have an idea for a daily painting exercise that gives me fuel for many paintings. I'd like to share it with you and perhaps you can give it a try. Create some Mystery Underpaintings this weekend!
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| A mystery Underpainting |
I often do several wet underpaintings at the same time. It saves on time and clean-up. I take several pieces of paper and just play with shapes and colors and brushstrokes. It can be any type of wet underpainting from watercolor and oil to wet pastel. Anything goes! I set these underpaintings aside for a day like today when I just didn't know what to paint or how to get started.
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| Midway through the painting. See the underpainting peeking through? |
Today's Mystery Underpainting suggested trees and grasses to me. So I found a photo that spoke to me that I felt would work with the underpainting. Since it is a mystery and done months ago I'm afraid I don't know what I used to create it. It doesn't really matter though. It provided a colorful and interesting start to my early winter landscape. (scroll up to see the underpainting)
I liked the results. I probably wouldn't have thought to put that bright blue under the trees but I like how it peeks out under the dull colors of winter!
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| close up. click to enlarge |
How about creating some mystery underpaintings this weekend!
2 comments:
Plan to paint this weekend even if it's as small as a tube of lipstick😀
I love that bright blue under the trees and see how you got it from your mystery underpainting. This sounds like a lot of fun! I don't know if I can do it this weekend (lack of space is a consideration) but I'm definitely going to try it eventually. Especially with wet pastel for the underpainting, since I now have lots of Colourfix paper to play with.
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