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Daily Painting, Acrylic Painting Today's News

by cooper on 1/9/2009 4:44:04 PMComment on this

Greetings,

Welcome to my daily painting place, where today's daily paint polished off the latest canvas in the reader's series. Truely, in fact, it is signed. I would offer up a great photo image of said canvas, but it's snowing in Spencer, Iowa. Big, fat, fluffy white snowflakes, and the wind is blowing them around pretty seriously, too.

Now, what on earth does "it's snowing" have to do with photos? A couple of years ago I had an a-ha moment, or maybe someone else shared their secret with me, or maybe it was plain old dumb luck discovey. But. Have you ever wondered how much easier it is to use natural lighting, than to dig through the closet for the indoor lighting setup, that probably has at least one bulb burnt out anyway? I'm here to tell you: LOTS. And even here in northwest Iowa, (ha) you can usually find a moment or two outdoors that's suitable for photography. Without further ado, here's that not yet perfected photo:

And did I tell you? It grew a title: Today's News. It's acrylic paint, as usual, and on a "discipline-sized" (!) canvas. That means a petite 12 x 12 inches. I suppose I'd better share with you my "discipline-sized" definition. With a smaller canvas, I've found these things to be mandatory:

1. Go for the mid-size brush instead of that monster-sized one.
2. Resist the urge to complicate the scene. Did somebody say less is more?
3. Look for the "it's done" signals to come a little quicker, and then STOP.

And yes, it's a smaller canvas than I normally work on, but I contend that it's still perfectly fine to sign it in red :)

Later, Cooper

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