Attempt at acrylics

I'm glad I didn't follow my impulse to buy more acrylic paint, the ones I have aren't the colors that Betty Edwards recommends in her Color book. However, following the exercises was really hard for me and I kind of got disgusted. There's a self portrait (natuarlly),  the four seasons, not representational but more in terms of colors the season evokes in me (just so you don't have to guess: spring, summer, fall, winter),"colors I like and colors I don't like" from the palette,. Some of the examples in her book were cheats, because the instructions specifically said not to be representational (for the seasons) but the artists didn't follow the instructions, I tried to.   I made do with the three primaries that I have plus black and white. I tried to make a color wheel with orange and blue mixtures and I could see that a prefab orange would have been useful because too much of the yellow from the home made orange made the blue turn green. I think that wouldn't have happened with an orange tube of paint, the colors would have have been blended much more thoroughly.  One of these days I'll get more colors, but it didn't seem worth the trip.  I'm at home for "spring break" and I don't feel like going anywhere. I have everything I need here. Except for the potting soil for my spider plant. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow.  There was a major brush fire on Staten Island today, probably still raging.  That's scary. The smoke must travel over to Brooklyn.

So I tried some of the exercises anyway from Betty Edwards' book.  They look kind of cute.  I also used one of the Pesach dinner plates as a palette, that was one of her recommendations.  All my plastic containers are put away in the chometz, but I had the bright idea of using the tin can from the peppers that I so foresightedly bought.  And now I have a little applesauce container as well. Not to mention the metal dish I bought that was sitting around with my acrylic paints that I haven't gotten around to using before today. Tomorrow, I'll try the watercolor portrait colors. Maybe. I'm afraid that I won't be any good, but as usual, I end up loving my work.