You know these little exercises you do over and over and over and yes OVER again. Either to keep your life running smoothly (grocery shopping anyone?) or to help master a skill (throwing a football, practicing piano scales, writing those cursive letters)
This is the repetitive exercise I have been doing…
I am trying to render that pesky rounded egg form convincingly in oil.
Obviously easier said than done.
I am taking notes, trying to come up with the right “recipe” of paint to oil. Also I am trying to figure out how much to mass (or block in darks to lights) and most importantly when to leave it alone.
I blocked off this gessoed watercolor paper into sixteen sections and plan to do a little something different in each one, hoping to hit that jackpot of rounded rendering success,,,
Wish me luck!
What do you do with your work, life or passion that is boring yet essential? What do you do to keep plugging through all the repetitions?
