The course was a lot of fun!

I particularly liked the many tips for giving the picture "liveliness", such as setting highlights, painting shadows, leaving white areas etc.

Thank you dear Jane-Beata, you explained everything very well and clearly with your calm and friendly voice. Very nicely selected motifs that I was looking forward to at my next painting time (which was not 7 days in a row ;-)

And I have learned that 100% cotton is the best paper for creating beautiful color gradients.  :-)

 

Day 1 - Peonies

I didn't have magenta and Prussian green, so I mixed other colors together.

 

Day 2 - Ice cream

I started painting with this picture. It was fascinating to see how the salt gave the colors effects and in the end I rubbed away just a little bit so that the crystals on the picture still glittered. I used it to make a birthday card for my sister. She was very pleased with the ice cream card. :-)

 

Day 3 - Toucan

The toucan was pure joy - I loved painting the beak and the blobs with the bright colors. The tips with the white highlights were really great here!

 

Day 4 - Pears

I've never seen such red pears in real life ;-) I like how I was able to practice making the pears look three-dimensional by using dark color for the shadows.

 

Day 5 - Rose

At first I thought - oh dear, that looks complicated. But with the help of the great explanations, a rose was created step by step.

 

Day 6 - Red mushrooms

A great picture for using masking fluid. I really like the contrast between the red mushroom caps and the background.

 

Day 7 - Red parrot

As I liked the macaw parrots from the exercises so much, I painted them separately.

 

 

I could have painted more days together :-)