Dreama Tolle Perry Workshop

Dreama's Workshop


I really loved this workshop.  Dreama's painting have such vivid color and beautiful brushwork. 

I took the workshop last April, but never included much from my notes.  Here are the highlights of what I learned:

Paint the under painting in transparent oils using a medium (the one I use is 1 part damar varnish, 2 parts stand oil or linseed oil, 3 parts gamsol)

 

You probably have most of the ones she recommended they include:  indian yellow, transparent red, alizarin, magenta, ultramarine blue, Caribbean blue

 

Then the next layer, paint with only opaque's like the cad colors, and  white mixed into transparent. (Dreama used Shiva Ice Blue, too,)   Don’t use medium in this layer, just fresh paint.  When you paint over the transparent let the darks peek through.  If you use a light touch the paints mix into the underpainting, but if you really load up your brush with lots of paint the brush strokes sit on top.

 

Use big brushes and think of you brushstrokes as putting down confetti pieces of color. 

 

It’s really a fun way of doing a painting.  Sometimes I use all of her techniques, other times just parts of it. 

 

 

This one was done from one of the photo's from class.

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Painting from yesterday

 

 

I did make a few changes, but very tiny ones.  The main change was the dark green area,  top right in the flowers.  The darkness of it made it look like a hole.   Then I put a little pink in the green of the  background.  I could hear Dreama's voice telling me to do that (from the workshop I took with

 Dreama Tolle Perry).  Doing the underpainting in transparent colors really makes the final layer so much brighter.  Thank you to Dreama for helping me with that. 

 

Our assignment for Day 17 of the marketing challenge was to think about the concept "call to action", another new one on me.  For example, asking friends on facebook to SHARE so that your paintings reach more people.  I tried it, but what if nobody clicks on share.  So far I have followed every one of the challenges and I didn't want to skip a challenge.  If anyone knows of a more diplomatic way to ask people to share your work with their friends, please let me know.