I paint every morning. I divide the image (on the computer) and also on the canvas into a grid, with each square being 2 inches. On my computer I zoom in to the square I am going to paint that day, so that is all I see on the screen.
The left side of the photo above shows the square on my computer that I was going to paint today The straight white lines are guide lines that I also draw on the square on the canvas. They help me put all the colors in the right place on the 2 inch canvas square I am going to paint.
On the right side of the photo above, you see the square I actually painted on the canvas today.
I have been having problems with this image, because I don’t really have the right greens to match the colors I see on the screen. As a result I have to do a lot of mixing with the colors I do have. The two-inch square I painted today took me an hour to paint, because of all of the mixing of colors I had to do to try to come up suitable greens.
The colors are not exactly the same, but they also have to match the squares I have already painted on the canvas. Hopefully the whole painting will still turn out alright.
In the photo below, you can see all of the paints I used today just to paint the two-inch square. At the very bottom you can see what my painting looks like so far. It is an image of some hosta leaves.
You can see my other paintings at: davidmarchant2.ca
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