Hi Jane,

As I watched the materials video I mapped the colors that I have. I currently own two sets - one is a Winsor&Newton Cotman Studio set and another is a Daniel Smith personalized palette set which I am still building.

I mapped the colors shown in the materials section to the alternative colors that I own and I created this color swatch..I loved making this swatch.

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I decided to work with the DS palatte as it is a newly built palette and I want to see/learn its versatility and completeness.

I did the Day 1 practice exercises. I don't own the Prussian green but I own an undersea green and decide to continue the practice and exercise with the colors that I own..the mixes aren't as great as in your exercise set but it still created a brownish green which can work as leaves.

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Day 1 Project

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I love the Quin Rose from DS - and I love how vibrant this painting has turned out. The part I struggled with is the same area I struggled with in the Day 2 Project too - the splatters. I tried splatter with animal hair brush, then switched with smaller sized syntheric hair brush and then switched to larger sized synthetic hair brush -> but I feel like I still haven't gotten the hang of getting the splatters to look like yours in the Day 1 and Day 2 Projects.

Day 2 Practice

I decided to make the orange mix as well as the purple mix. I mixed the purple as was mentioned in the materials video -> I mixed my Quin Rose with French Ultramarine to get the purple. I liked the color ranges used in this project - vibrant and complimentary colors. As mentioned earlier - the splatters I couldn't get it like yours.

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Day 2 Project. Since I was using 4 colors. I thought I would create multiple icecream cones with the various combinations of the 4 colors. The fine table salt showed some effect in this painting while in the practice work the salt didn't show as much results as in the project page.

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Day 3 Practice

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Day 3 Project - loved working on the toucan - its so colorful.. I put more efforts into the splatter as per your comments and it is much better than my previous splatters..

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Day 4 Practice

The DS's Alizarin Crimson order has not yet reached me, so I did this day 4 practice with my winsor newton cotman set. The sphere came out good, the pear not so much.

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Day 4 Project

I wanted to do paint the second pear in yellow-green shade range as I haven't seen many red colored pears. The shading hasn't come out so good.. will attempt this exercise again after completing the 7 day challenge

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Second attempt with the DS Palette - still feel like it needs more work.. will attempt it again after doing the rest of the projects

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At the end of the challenges I felt more ready to do a third take on the pears. Did this with the DS Palette and I also gave some highlights with white gouache. This project's results have become much better.

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The Pear exercise pages look like this in my sketchbook now. Lots of learning.

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I haven't tried painting flowers much - I once did a sunflower painting on a canvas in acrylic as a beginner and I felt that it was very tedious.. so I have avoided flowers.. I tried the Day 5 project with the mindset of let's follow the instructions and see where it takes me. I was pleasantly surprised to see the results.. Loved working on the exercise and the project. The Rose looks so good, I am so happy with the results.. Jane, you are a wonderful teacher!!

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Day 6 Practice

I mixed the various blues and yellows to see the kind of greens that I could create with them. I wanted to mix my own version of the prussian green.

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Day 6 Project

I enjoyed working on the mushrooms - I worked from the reference photo and followed the instructions given

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Day 7 Practice

The videos were long and I decided to work on it little by little as I am a working mother and I get only 30 mins per day to do the artworks.

This is the pencil sketch

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This is one of the parrots painted

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I enjoyed the practice work - Listening to Jane's process is so interesting.

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Day 7 Project was very interesting - I enjoyed the process a lot

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Thank you Jane for the wonderful 7 day challenge classes. I enjoyed every project and discovered my own interests.

I have started the day 8 project and don't own a premixed bright orange so I made a mix of new gamboge with Quin Rose, Pyrrol Scarlet and Alizarin Crimson - I thought the Pyroll Scarlet with new gamboge made the mix I need. Doing the abstract background is fun!

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