This past week’s focus has been on following a FREE(!) 4-step ‘taster’ painting course from Louise Fletcher Art called ‘Find Your Joy’.
I do not consider myself an abstract artist, but these four exercises gave me an idea of the more fun side of painting. And they are exercises you can apply to a daily painting practice.
I have yet to finish the fourth assignment, but the first one involved a limited palette of three colors plus black and white, and a time limit of 30 minutes. I taped off a large piece of Bristol board (what I had available) into twelve sections and went at it. My final results were not exactly overwhelming, but I discovered three things.
- The artist tape I removed after the painting had dried will make excellent ‘washi tape’, and I harvested it onto a piece of parchment paper. (I want to do this exercise again, just because of the tape!)
2. One section in particular spoke to me, and I made a color copy and doodled and added more paint from the same limited color palette and ended up with a character I call Bun-Bun, after my 2-year old niece’s favorite stuffed animal.
3. I really DID enjoy it!
I’m looking forward to doing the fourth exercise, which also has some assigned limits.
I can’t wait to get to it!
-Armanda