Art chat: Painting roses live, developing a more intuitive practice - Live Oil Painting Session

What we'll be doing ------------------------------- Painting roses! I'm beginning a flower painting today, and you're welcome to paint along with me. The reference photo I'm using is linked at the bottom of the email. Today is going to be a little different. While I paint, as I usually do,I'm going to be attempting to explain what I'm doing with some level of coherence - as much as I can manage :) But I've got something more in mind today. I'm also going to be talking about, and showing, some work that I've been doing lately that I haven't shared yet. It's exploratory work, intended to help me move beyond what I habitually do and find new avenues. I'm hoping that by showing it to you as I paint, it might help to inspire you to do the same. To develop a more expressive kind of work that relies less on accuracy to the subject and more on feeling and intuition. Being guided by things that happen in the paint as I move along. A really big part of this, I'm finding, is giving yourself permission. It's not as easy as it sounds. I'm probably feeling more nervous about this than I have about a stream for a long time. But this is close to my heart. That's probably why it feels vulnerable. But I hope it might also be helpful. Materials --------------- Surface: I'll be painting on a 12 x 9 ampersand gessobord panel Brushes: I'll be using mostly flats and hogs, but also you kow the spatulas will make an appearance, and perhaps some other paint-manipulating implements. Colours: Lead white - Rublev #1 (titanium will do fine) Cad yellow Bright yellow lake Pyroll magenta Green gold Transparent red oxide Transparent red oxide Phthalo green (I'll be using Winsor green) Raw Umber Ivory black Reference photo -------------------------- https://www.learning-to-see.co.uk/wp-... -----------------------------USEFUL LINKS----------------------------- If you're interested in learning with me, you can see the online art school I run here: https://courses.learning-to-see.co.uk... Your first month is only $1 if you use the coupon code school1. After that first month, it reverts to the normal monthly price of $33. The online art school give you access to a bunch of courses, membership in my wonderful (and private) artist's community, live critique calls and a bunch of other stuff. There's no minimum period and you can cancel at any time. The app I use when I'm teaching to investigate the colour is called ChromaMagic. It's a fantastic learning tool. You can find it on the Apple and Google Play stores, and there is also a Windows version. It's very inexpensive and extremely useful! If you struggle at all with judging values and colours, or with mixing, this is a great tool to help you calibrate your eye. You can get the Munsell value scale - which allows you to translate values from the app directly to your painting - from Paul Centore on Ebay here, also very inexpensive: https://www.ebay.com/itm/223003792036 Subscribe to my email list to get notifications of future live streams and other helpful info about painting in oils: https://www.learning-to-see.co.uk/sub...