Akiko’s dead blog - 1618-v1

painted this as a farewell gift for a friend leaving LA.

4×6 gouache

Here’s a mass up-load of my “100 starts” painting pledge. In the past I’ve attempted similar pledges, but have failed and quit after a week or so by missing a day. This time, although I have in a way failed because I haven’t been painting every day as planned, I decided to keep going.

just in case people are wondering, these are excercises in painting objects of same color - everything in the set up is green. Enough with the greens.

white object studies - challanging, but not the greatest idea..

continuing with the “blue” theme. The idea of this challenge is also to paint everyday. We’ll see how long I last.

inspired by Kevin MacPherson’s book, I am attempting a pledge to do 100 starts - simple flat shape studies. I probably went in to more details and took longer than it should. But here is the first.

Hot day at the park - like a sauna..

It was a struggle today. Had some help from my teacher. Quote from Joseph :”Some days you should just stay in bed.” But you still have to keep trying

capturing white objects in shadow was a challenge. The color combo of the blue vase againt a pink pillow is refreshing to me. It is border line garish - but not quit.

I really liked this Model’s attitude and profile view.