Finished this oil painting today. Still trying to learn oil painting. Might take a few decades 🤣

[LiberalLoner]

66. That's true, they say if you get the values exactly right, you can use any colors you want....

I do still struggle with getting the values right. I use a value finder. One of those things with shades from black to white, ten shades.

I think it would help me if I printed out large photos, like 8x10, to paint from instead of trying to paint from my iPad. I see instructors using laminated photos all the time to check the accuracy of their color mixtures and it looks like a very helpful thing, but…printing out photos is an extra expense, and I am trying to be frugal these days.

That’s cool that they taught you the tricks of measuring, I always remember being taught that the eyes are one third of the way from the top of the head…took a couple of art courses….now I just watch YouTube videos, but I find them enormously helpful and wish I had had access to those even in my teens…technology is amazing.

I pay for YouTube premium, it’s worth it to me because I watch YouTube honestly more than I watch regular tv. I watch at least a couple hours of art instruction a day on YouTube, so you can see where I’d find it worth the twenty dollars a month to be able to watch ad free.

Maybe I should stop being so cheap and pay fifty dollars a month or so to have big photos printed out. My art would improve a great deal if I did…

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