Painting the Palace
Here's another show-and-tell from my latest art class. I was excited because this week we actually got to paint! I know that sounds odd, since it is, after all, a painting class, but our teacher is much more into understanding what we've been thinking about, what we're interested in, and how we're approaching the architecture, and sometimes we barely get time to pull out our supplies. Call me impatient, but with only eight hours total in the course, I was eager to stop talking and pick up a paintbrush!
The class and the process of putting aside a few hours every week to concentrate on process has already paying off though. This week, I focused on the concept of redrawing an object over and over and over again until it becomes so familiar that it gets more proportionate each time - without having to do so much tweaking. This is particularly important for architecture. I was doing that with the two Taj Mahals above (the right one was the later version) as well as experimenting with color.