Paint And Draw Together: Shirley Bond

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Sunday, July 20, 2014

Shirley Bond

Artist: Shirley Bond
Size: 16"x20"
Medium & Support: Acrylic on canvas
Artist Blog: not701.blogspot.com
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Painting Technique : Acrylic mixed with glazing medium. I found the paint was drying too quickly to blend as I wanted it to. This helped. I still think it needed to be darker on the right hand side to give it more a dramatic appeal.

4 comments:

Beach Cat ! said...: I really like this … you caught the feel of the sky beautifully. I was going to try this in watercolor but now you have me thinking acrylics is a great choice!; July 21, 2014 at 5:51 AM
Shirley Bond said...: Beach cat,
I have been doing a lot of watercolors recently and found a problem switching back to acrylics because I couldn't blend the colors well on the canvas so I guess I used a combined approach using a medium. Thanks for your comment.
Shirley; July 21, 2014 at 5:00 PM
Helen said...: Lovely! Love the orange highlights on the "sun"side of the dark clouds!
H; July 23, 2014 at 8:36 PM
Shirley said...: Thanks Helen. I like painting sunsets and clouds in general. It always helps to have a subject that you like to paint I think.; August 5, 2014 at 6:56 PM