when bored, paint an apple. lately i've been painting a small 6x6 every night in the book I made with padded paper where the grain is going the wrong direction for the book and the book won't close. oddly, i only seem to want to paint/draw in the mistake books and not in the books that aren't full of mistakes or blood. i've been painting whatever is close and usually an apple or some other rotting fruit or vegetable in my house. starting this monday i have a class at Wet Paint with Shannon Burnette or Brunette on experimental drawing and we are supposed to bring all of our easy to carry medias. in the back of my head i'm thinking i'll bring the little book and "fix" my daily mostly rotting fruit or vegetable paintings. i've been using different media -- watercolor, acrylic, gouache, those square things, and color pencils. and regular pencils. sometimes i like what i've done and sometimes i think they are horrible but could be fixed with a layer of something over the top of it and maybe even a a layer of paper or gesso on the top of it and start all over or in the case of watercolor or gouache a good dunk in the water to wash off the paint.
this bowl of apples in the kitchen caught my eye and I did a quick gouache 10 minute painting and thinking about what other layers i could add to it later when I learn something in class on Monday.
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