A couple of new paintings

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Last edited Sun Nov 29, 2020, 12:53 PM - Edit history (1)

I've been quiet here lately--work's been demanding--but I've been painting on the weekends and watching instructional videos in the weekday evenings. I think all the studying is paying off, although the self-portrait looked better before I put my glasses on. (I can't read without glasses.) These two are both from the last few weeks. I used a very limited palette for the self-portrait: just a mix of titanium and zinc whites, yellow ochre, cadmium red medium and ivory black. If you're a painter, look up the Zorn palette and see what Anders Zorn painted with it.

True story: when I was getting my final critique at art school more than thirty-five years ago, the department head/favorite teacher gently told me that not everyone is cut out to be an artist and maybe I should focus on my writing instead. I was crushed, and I didn't paint much at all for decades. But all these years later, when I don't care about painting anything impressive but just want to learn, painting is much more fulfilling for me, and that instructor would probably like the end results better, too.

These are both little paintings: the self-portrait is 10"x10" and the landscape is 6"x9".

Edited because I first accidentally posted a less-finished version of the self-portrait.

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Thanks for looking!