Seeing Red Has Value

I’m having a poor mental health day today. I know exactly why that is, and I know that it will pass, it’s just a thing that happens the day before a Thing happens. It’s not hormonal, it’s another Thing.

When this happens, everything else is magnified, and it doesn’t take much to set of a series of revolutions lower and lower. Today I’m sort of observing this, rather than just falling down the hole completely.

Still, I painted. I painted and I finally put something down in the new sketchbook I purchased when I finished the last one. I made a fine mess with a Charcoal XL, and First Page Syndrome is overcome 🙂

I spent a bit of time with my clown painting. When I went back to look this morning there were a lot of things that jumped out at me with proportions and whatnot, and also the values were all wrong.

So we are now going through an ugly stage, which is fine, it’s acrylic paint and I love layers, ha. My challenge for this one, aside from the large brush, is getting the values right.

There’s also the challenge of looking at a person in clown make-up and your brain wanting everything to be white, or light, and that’s not actually what’s there. Yesterday I had given some shadow areas some colour, but the colour was not actually creating shadow, because it was still a mid-tone.

So now I’m on this dance to find the colour that matches the value, and although I’m having a shitty day in my head, and the painting is doing an ugly stage, I’m really enjoying the process.

My sparkly new phone, which I have now fallen in love with, can handle taking a photo through my red perspex value tool, so here’s the current view of the values. I have been mostly working around her mouth and chin, and I am starting to get there. Now I’m looking at this here on the blog, I am seeing more of what I need to do, so tomorrow morning will be interesting.

I may not get much painting done this weekend as I will be keeping a four-legged lodger company. Good thing I got that sketchbook broken in.

Til the morn,

Suzanne

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