Painting With Glass

Are You Kidding?

Painting With Glass?

You read that right, but maybe not in the way you thought.

I have a good online friend/mentor I've never met.

She is an artist I follow online and we communicate, but we've never met face to face.

It's that way with most of my art friends.

Her name is Julie Ford Oliver and she is an incredible artist I learn something from with every blog post she writes.

Click HERE to go to her blog.

I love her work, because it's loose and bright 

and always interesting.

Several years ago on her blog she said when she has an area on a painting that she is struggling with, she paints what she thinks she wants on a piece of glass over top of her painting.

That way she can see if she really does like it, if the perspective is right, etc.

I know!

Genius!!!

I've been working on a 3 painting piece for my living room and I am getting near the end.

I wanted to add a dock in the foreground of the center piece, but I didn't want to screw up the whole thing.

Fortunately for me, I remembered Julie's lesson so I pulled out a small piece of glass to work on.  It was almost too small but I wasn't walking back to the house to get another one, so I made do.  

I did it three times before I got what I liked.

Oh Yeah!

This definitely wasn't it.

You can see the outline of the small piece of glass I used.

It's acrylic paint so I sprayed with water and wiped off with a paper towel.  Easy peezy!

This was better, but the angle at the top wasn't right.

Rinse and repeat!

Much better!

Then I used soft vine charcoal to draw the dock where I wanted using my glass as a guide.

I'me very happy with it.

This is the middle of the three pieces.

Maybe a few tweaks and it will be finished.

Thanks Julie.

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Print it out and keep it where ever you paint.

Beginning Drawing Concepts - 3 FREE Videos

You Have To Start Somewhere!

Learning to draw takes some time

and some knowledge

and some practice.

I created these three videos for you

to help you learn and understand 

some basic drawing concepts.

In this video you will learn how to draw an ellipse, how to create a shadow, how to seat the vase on the table and how to see all the aspects you see while looking at the vase.

I hadn't really planned on making a series out of this, but once I had the first one done, it made perfect sense.

In this video I'll show you how to put a table cloth on the table, how to create the front of the table shadow and why it's important.  Putting the stripes on the table at a diagonal gives the drawing a much more dynamic feel and adds movement. It helps with the perspective of the table also.  I also show you how you could add a very simple wall paper on the wall behind the vase.

Hope you enjoyed this short series.  

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Thanks a lot for stopping by today 

and let's paint together real soon.

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Another FREE Video - How To Paint Red Flower

Let's Paint a Red Flower Tutorial

Yep!

You read that right.

I recently released a FREE painting tutorial for this flower
on my YouTube channel
Sharon Durbin Graves
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Here's what's on my easel in the studio right now.

This is a three piece painting I'm doing for myself.

I'll keep you posted as I work on it.

Every artist needs to understand how color works.  I've created a printable with 7 Tips for Mixing Color.  
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Thanks for stopping by today and please feel free to friend or family member who you know would love to learn to paint.