March 2024 Demonstration

Lou introduced Michele.

Michele started out describing some techniques that she uses.

For example, she holds the paper vertically when starting the sky.
That causes the paint to run across the paper horizontally instead of down.

Here is the result that she obtains using the technique.

We had a good turnout this time. It is always good when we
have an engaged audience in attendance.

The first subject Michele addressed was painting trees.
She does not attempt to copy the tree she is looking at.
Instead she looks for shapes to get the basic look of the tree.
She started with yellow.

Then, she added some green.

Adding more green as well as some darker green.

Here is the basic tree.

After the sheen is gone from the paint, Michele scratches
highlights into the still wet paint with her fingernail.

Next, she demonstrated her dry brush technique.
She drags the paint across the paper, leaving holes in the paint.

Here is the result of her dry brush demonstration.
She uses this to put some sparkle on paintings of water.

For the painting demonstration, Michele used this painting as source material.

She mounted the paper vertically and started the sky using yellow.

She added some blues and pinks.

This is the resulting sky.

Using a hair dryer to set the paint.

The painting is mounted on the easel horizontally for the rest of the demo.

She blocked in the warm parts using yellow.

Adding the water.

Progress so far.

Here, Michele is adding rocks. The rocks are darker near the water where they get wet.

It is looking more like the a painting.

In this photo, Michele is continuing to add rocks.

To gain a feeling of scale, she adds a figure walking on the beach.

Putting in a sail boat and some birds.

The final painting.