egg struggles continue

Egg. Fabric. Fail.

I made a friend bring me a white shelled egg. Maybe my problem was the brown egg.
I did six more 3x3 thumbnails (so now I've done 12 thumbnails of an egg). I like the thumbnail process. That was something I learned from my pre-Art Camp homework. Then, I had to make 24 thumbnails of the SAME THING and then 12 finals using different mediums. I was so sick of that one squash at the end. What I learned from that process is that the endless thumbnails are useful to look at the object and if I do them in 5 minutes/thumbnail I loosen up.

Tonight I did 6 more thumbnails using the ArtGraf, the big crayon (Lyra graphit-kreide), and some water-soluble pencils.

Then I get done and think about doing my homework/assignment/practice and sort of dread using the acrylics. I am not looking forward to mixing the colors to get the grey that turns out to be army green and then having an army green egg painting. I'm not looking forward to scraping off the wrong colors and re-mixing and when I get a grey/gray then I have too much and it lacks luminosity and looks dead. Then having to re-gesso the boards. Maybe I need to get the bigger palette so I have more space to mix.

So far, for this week's assignment I am at a FAIL of following the instructions.

Mondays are my only day when I have daylight to paint. The rest of the week I have to do this at home in the dark, in a little cold room, with a tiny little light, but maybe that is a plus in my case or I have to make it a plus. For example, did painters in the past have electricity all night long?

Maybe I'm using the wrong medium for me? Or the wrong brush? Or the wrong size panel? I sort of want to use a 2" brush. Maybe the struggle is the purpose.