Number 74

I wasn't happy with the way the mug came out on yesterday's painting so I decided to paint it again today. Eh, it's getting there.


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Number 72

It's been a while that me and my paintbox hung out. (Ignore the shadow on the top of the painting I took this picture at night and I only had the shitty light on the fan to use.) I am still trying to push through this lack of drive to paint. Well see what happens.


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Number 63

Mug...


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Number 47

Mug.


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Number 46

A mug to start the week off.


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Number 36

More mugs.


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Number 35

Here we are painting number 35. A little later than usual but done.


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Number 31

Here is today's painting another mug.


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Number 30

Wow thirty paintings. I believe I just doubled the amount of painting that I have done in my entire art "career". I've been drawing since I was little but I didn't get really serious about art until about five years ago, up until then I was coasting. My stuff was as good or better than the people around me so why push myself to get better (big fish in a little pond). While sitting at a horrible job at a dollar store I realized that I drew worth shit and needed to practice if I was going to get any better. It had been a long time that I just drew for fun. I think what helped too was reading a book called "Art & Fear". It basically said that the only person that is gonna care about your work is you so work for the enjoyment of making work (or something like that). So now it's work for work's sake. OK I'm rambling. Have a great weekend.



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Number 25

To end the week I did a value study of the mug on my desk. I wasn't going for the true colors, I was just trying to convincingly paint the form of the mug. This week I've been using a painting medium for pretty much the first time ever. I don't know whats in it it just says "oil painting medium", oh by the way I use Windsor & Newton Artisan oil paints and the medium is the same brand. The paints are the water mixable oil. I use them rather than regular oils because the room I work in is on the small side and regular oils have a strong smell and it would make the Apt. smell. Plus cleaning up regular oils are a giant pain in the ass. What did I learn this week? Painting with some sort of painting medium is awesome, I should have been using this all along. I need to work on doing some more portraits. Last but not least, I need to do more exercises where I count the number of brush strokes I takes to make a painting, in order to focus on making everyone of them count. I have officially done more paintings in these five weeks than I have done in probably the last three or four years, so that's something. Hope everyone has a good weekend.



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Number 23

In today's painting I tried to use the least amount of brush strokes to convincingly model the coffee mug. Total number of brush strokes for toady was 242. It's a lot looser than the other paintings I've done recently. I will definitely do this exercise again.


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