The first class project of the winter session was a lake at sunset with snow all around. I don't know where Ron got the photo or where it was taken, but it was a pretty scene, and I enjoyed painting it. In his demonstration, Ron masked out the snow, but I didn't, and found it fairly easy to paint around it. He likes to use a lot of masking, and I think it is partly because it makes things a bit easier for less experienced students. I find that I am not very good at masking, and I would rather not use it. When I started this painting with the sky and its reflection, I thought I had made a complete mess of it, but when I had done the rest, it looked pretty good. One thing I did different from Ron and the rest of the class was to add a blue cast to the snow, making my painting look colder than theirs. I like it that way. I feel that this scene should look kind of cold.
Next, we did a still life of apples from a photo by Ron. Once again, he used masking for the apples, but I didn't feel that they needed it. I just used it for a few white spots to make the apples look shiny. I think I did a pretty good job with this one.
Then we did a lion. I did use masking on this one to make it easier to paint the background as a formless wet wash. But then I didn't like my formless wash. I wanted it darker and with a bit more form to it, so I added a bunch more vegetation. I still didn't like it very much, but several people around me commented on how they liked it, so I continued on with the lion, and it turned out better than I expected.
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