hello,

I thank you for your teaching and dedication !

I spent part of my week with sunsets, and I am far from finished.

I made all the warm-up, and my main "discoveries" are :

- as a beginner, I was eager to try all sorts of papers, and as a result, after a few years, I still struggle a lot because I don't really know what to expect depending of the ratio water/pigment, weather, dumpness of paper ;-)

I still can't settle on just one paper, and I can't stop my explorations. so I went with this project to know them a little better, that's why I still have to experiment sunset with the rough paper I have (Fabriano artsitico)

- I have gained a lot of freedom with photos ; it's probably the most important point. Selecting only parts of the photo one after the other was a revelation !

- I realized that it is very difficult for me to be fully aware of each brushstroke, I was not always even able to count to 6, I still have a lot of progress to make !

so, here are my trials :

sunset addict - image 1 - student project

I have tried a lot of paints at the first exercice, and I found that I was going to work only with these 7 :

sennelier : cobalt violet light and deep

daniel smith : hanso yellow light and quinacridone coral (love it)

windsor and newton : french ultra marine, opera rose, permanent rose (I did not use the rose dore)

plus at the end, I add a few perylene green (windsor and newton)

sunset addict - image 2 - student project

I took a quill from Princeton, it is huge and very soft. I was fighting against precision :-)

this is the "ha ha" moment, selecting only parts of the photo

sunset addict - image 3 - student project

100% bamboo paper - clairefontaine

the last one is a good start for an abstract painting, seen upside down :

sunset addict - image 4 - student project

- trying 6 strokes (wet on wet on a homemade sketchbook paper Arches 90 lb cotton) : it was to dull

sunset addict - image 5 - student project

6 strockes on a very old paper cotton paper, not sized (made in Austria, decades ago ! ) it was quite fun :

sunset addict - image 6 - student project

then I picked a photo and tried the next warm-up :

sunset addict - image 7 - student project

top : Arches 90 lb cotton

bottom : canson montval (cellulose)

then, for the last exercice, I took another photo and I intend to test all my papers !

here is the Fabriano Artistico cold press

sunset addict - image 8 - student project

and the Fontaine Hot Press, from Clairefontaine (100% cotton)

which is cool because every stroke is to be seen :

sunset addict - image 9 - student project

but it is not the end ...

thank you for your patience !

Véronique, Paris

Lili Veronique

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