My sister and I are taking an art class together. Today was the first lesson. It's an oil painting class and I haven't oil painted since I was taking an art class in grade 7.. maybe once or twice since.
The instructor brought some pictures that we could paint and I chose a blue mountain scene. It took the whole class for me to lay down the colours on the page. I'll add more details next week and probably bring another canvas.
I learned that I can basically start anywhere but the instructor likes to paint the shadows first. She recommended starting with the background too. So I basically started at the top and worked down. The hardest part was starting, honestly. I added terpentine to the paint to thin it out a bit.
Another thing I learned is that French ultramarine and raw umber make black. Which is a trick I ended up using a lot because I had some dark blues to paint.
Here's my painting (bottom) plus the original print (top):
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