Yesterday was day #9 (for me, anyway) in the Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days challenge. The "rules" don't say, specifically, that you have to paint 30 paintings in JANUARY, just 30 paintings in 30 days. So...I've fallen behind the group's schedule, but I'm not alone in that, and I think the idea is to paint daily--or frequently, if you can. So that's pretty much what I'm doing. Yesterday's painting was a real challenge for me. I've had a wooden panel laying around in the studio for several months and I decided to paint on that. Eeks! I've never painted on wood before, but I figured, in keeping with my word-of-the-year "explore" I would give it a go. I gessoed the wood first, then when it was dry began painting. I quickly realized that even with 2 coats of gesso, the wood was soaking up the acrylics. They were drying too fast. The acrylic medium helped--but I still found it difficult to blend and smooth edges--so this painting has a more painterly, maybe even plein-air look to it--which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I think the colors ended up more dull than I'd hoped. Since I don't know much about painting on wood, maybe that is typical.
Overall, it was --well, not so much
fun as
informative and I doubt I'll paint on wood panels again. But hey, if I hadn't, then I wouldn't know, right?
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