Amy Crehore paintblogging

The wonderful Amy Crehore is showing us how she creates a painting, day-by-day.

Here is my first attempt at color for my "Honeybee" painting. I usually try to block in the background first. The green grass and tent. Then, I move on to the figures, keeping in mind that I want to set up a pattern of harmonious color moving throughout the whole painting to connect all of the components. Here, I have chosen a limited palette of sap green mixed with indian yellow, plus some olive green, raw umber, white and cobalt blue. I painted the shadow areas of the girl with a mixture of cadmium red light and sap green. I used white paint (Permalba) mixed with indian yellow for her skin highlights and then blended it to produce the color that you see here. I am painting "wet on wet".

Steps 1 and 2 | Step 3

[#1 posted by tehmoth , October 20, 2007 6:00 PM]

so great, why can't the fans of amy crehore just use the rss feed from her blog instead of boing boing?

[#2 posted by insomma , October 21, 2007 1:29 AM]

@TEHMOTH: They can. And now, thanks to this post, Amy Crehore will hopefully have new fans commenting directly to her that were previously unfamiliar with her work. That's the beauty of a directory. Sheesh.

Keep 'em coming Boing Boing, your art posts are some of my favorites on the site.