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The 6x8 Painting That Almost Cost Me $250+
by Marian Fortunati on 1/28/2010 6:51:35 PM
 "Time Worn"
8"x6" Oil on RayMar Canvas
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The last two days have been absolutely GORGEOUS! After last week's unusual deluge and a follow up weak rainy front this week, we spoiled SoCal inhabitants were accepting of the needed rain but longed for our normal sunshiny weather. Well, it's back!!
After dropping Tyler off at school, I went for my bi-weekly almost four-mile-walk down to Gelson's and back. When I got home I still had about three hours before I needed to be in Tyler's class to volunteer. It was an almost physical need that pulled me outside to paint. Have YOU ever felt like that??? I debated whether to do the bills or work on club business, but it was so beautiful outside, I talked to myself and decided that I could squeeze in a little time in the nearby Caballero Canyon to paint something small. What joy!
I walked down into the canyon and had decided to paint something which included the very interesting rounded, water-weather rocks that are near the path where I have painted frequently before. It wasn't a long hike and I settled in quickly. In my mind, I had also planned NOT to hide out as I frequently do when painting outside in public... I set up right by the path that hikers, joggers and bikers pass by and told myself that I needed to get over my reluctance to talk to people. I steeled myself for the thoughtless questions that I've heard in the past like, "Are you any good?" and "What is it that you're painting?" I told myself I need to practice how to handle these questions and use them to grow with.
I started with a small 6x8 canvas orange-toned canvas board and sketched in the scene then quickly decided on the value pattern and began to lay in the paint. I tried not to be stingy with the paint as I so often am. I had SUCH a good time! The first people to come over to see my work didn't say anything unkind and the lady even commented on how pretty the "salmon" color was. "Well," I said to myself, "hmmmmm..." (The salmon color was actually the toned canvas that I hadn't painted yet.) But this reminded me that one of the things I was trying to achieve was to include interesting and "pretty" color in the scene as well as interesting brush-work. So I started mixing up some salmony paint and off I went.
When I had finished the painting and was starting to clean up, another couple walked by and asked to "look". They had originally asked if I was painting "something in particular or the whole scene ... this said as they waived off into the distance"... When they came over to look, I told them that I was focusing on the rocks that had been rounded and worn down by water and left in the canyon. As they got behind me and the easel, they commented that the painting was prettier than the scene. I laughed because I THINK it was meant as a compliment. ;oD
I cleaned up and was back home in time to eat lunch before heading off to help in Tyler's computer class. THEN I realized I couldn't find my camera!! PANIC!!!..... I stuffed down my lunch and headed back into the canyon.... NO CAMERA...... What had been a terrific morning had become a disaster!!... I even had paint all over my clean shirt!!
When I got home from my volunteer duties, I dumped everything out from my purse, then my trunk then I scanned the floorboards of my car and I FINALLY found the camera UNDER my Easy-L palette at the bottom of my backpack.... Thank goodness... All in all a near perfect day!
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