Day 2 Of Sailboats in the Sunset Painting

I meant to get this out earlier, but I was out with that nasty flu bug that has gripped a lot of people here.

Here I worked on a few of the base colors for the sail boats and water and touched up the sky a bit. Next week I start on the cloud formations. I love sunsets and I wanted a dramatic background for the evening sunset. See you next week. Stay healthy!

Deciding To Try Something New

Finding time to be alone to paint with family coming and going, I reminded myself it's Ok to play a little, so I decided to join an art class and try something new. I had streched a canvas several years ago that I wanted to try water-based oils on. I had bought the oils and everything I needed for it and finally I get to use them!

Each week I'll show what I have done with the painting. I've never painted in this medium before nor have I painted this type of theme. So I hope you enjoy the ride with me and maybe learn some tips from this as well.

This is the day 2 of my painting. Day 1 I sketched and transferred it onto the canvas. I am working from 3 different photographs of sailboats and sunsets. I'll tell you again I am used to painting in watercolor for the most part, so the texture was interesting and I loved how long the paint stayed wet! So for some things I will have to wait till next week to go over a few things without mixing the colors into one another. Well, I hope to see you next week with day 3 of my painting. Goodbye for now.