For the month of March, I challenged myself to paint 30 6×8 landscapes using only a limited palette of Utrecht paints. I further limited myself to painting local landscapes from my own references. Going into this, I knew I would be challenged by my inability to paint convincing rocks and the very real struggle to…
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Utrecht Color Theory Challenge – Week 4
Day 22. When I was first starting to paint, I would look up tutorials on how to paint clouds, rocks, flowers, etc. I would watch these highly specific tutorials and do my best to follow them and struggle anyway. Eventually I figured out that learning to paint and learning to paint a flower are one…
Utrecht Color Theory Challenge – Week 3
Day 15. I’ve officially half way through this challenge. Only 15 paintings left. I’ve unfortunately hit a bit of a wall though. The last two paintings weren’t quite as good as I wanted them to be. They aren’t necessarily bad, but I can do better. With this painting specifically, I finished it but really wasn’t…
Utrecht Color Theory Challenge – Week 2
Day 8. Painting these large rock faces has been interesting. I think I may even be starting to get the hang of it. If I think of it as more of an abstract and am really messy about mixing my colors with my brush I can get a large variety of color and textures. The…
Utrecht Color Theory Challenge – Week 1
Day 1 and I’m already struggling. The yellow has been pretty difficult to mix so far. The green created by mixing the yellow and blue was really gross. You can see it only in a tiny part of this painting behind the trees on the right on the distant mountainside. My main way of getting…
Utrecht Color Theory Landscape Challenge
This March I will be painting 30 landscapes in 30 days with a limited palette of Utrecht paints. It has been a few years since I’ve painted landscapes and I’m really excited to get back into it. This challenge also fits nicely into my goal this year of completing several 30-day challenges. I will be…
2019 Strada 31-Day Challenge Complete
This challenge went better than I had anticipated. And I finished it. Woo! Compared to the first time I did a 30-day challenge, this time was a cake walk. I’m not totally sure why though. It could be that my subjects were easier, I was more practiced in daily painting, the fact that I didn’t…
2019 Strada Easel Challenge Days 25-31
Finished! This was a really hard week, but I was glad to have the distraction. Next week I’m going to do a final post displaying all of these paintings together and let you know which ones are my favorites. Day 25. I was surprised to find these mandarin oranges with stems at my local supermarket….
2019 Strada Easel Challenge Days 18-24
Only seven days left! I’m so proud of myself for making it this far into the challenge. I can’t wait to see what I come up with for the final week. Day 18 went pretty smoothly once I figured out the composition. It turns out it isn’t the easiest thing in the world to make…
2019 Strada Easel Challenge Days 11-17
I’m halfway done!!! Actually, more than halfway. Only 14 days remaining in this 31-day challenge. I’m having a dilemma. While I like the painterly look of some of these newer paintings and I can get them done relatively quickly, I’m on the fence about them. I think I liked the more refined paintings I was…
2019 Strada Easel Challenge Days 4-10
So far I’m really happy with how this challenge is shaping up. Aside from a couple of paintings, I’m thrilled with how the paintings are turning out. Today I’m a third of the way through the challenge and it has really flown by. The challenge I did last year really drug on, but I was…
2019 Strada Easel Challenge Days 1-3
I know it isn’t a very big reveal this week, but here are the first three paintings of the challenge. Out of the three, I’m happiest with the beets. I put a couple hours into that one and really pushed it to a more polished finish. Or it could just be that I love the…