I Signed Up For An Online Art Course

In order to get my groove back in the world of painting and being creative, I didn't know where to start, so when I came across an online painting course called Get Your Paint On quite by accident I immediately signed up.  I thought that by having some structure through assignments it would get me organized to start somewhere....anywhere.

Week #1 -  Get Your Paint On
It's been a full week since I started and I created four paintings, three paintings that I posted to the GYPO painting group on Flicker. Our assignment was to paint using a grid format from the inspiration of the Alabama Gee Quilters.  So here's what I came up with.

Painting #1 - 30"x 40" - Acrylic on roofing paper 

Painting #2 - 14"x 14" - Acrylic on roofing paper

Painting #3 - 11"x 14" - Acrylic on roofing paper

So anyway, my three paintings are all painted on one of my new favourite surfaces, roofing felt paper. That's right, the stuff that's used in between the sheathing and the shingles on your roof.  It's got a great surface texture, it's thick and heavy and lovely and black, which for me is the most wonderful and inviting way to start a painting. A black background is just begging for colour to be added. The surface is perfect for dry brush techniques but will also accept opaque paint application quite nicely. I've got two rolls of it here and I'm going to use them.