Last week I was a little frustrated with my painting and a friend of mine suggested I look at things a bit differently and use different colors or different paints to paint my pictures. Well, I've got some old paints that were made in West Germany. I don't know what West Germans knew about paint or anything. I do know that the colors in this set are kind of different and mostly opaque. When I say they are kind of different, what I mean is that 7 different blues, none of which match with my existing french ultramarine, pthalo blue, cerulean blue deep or cerulean blue. It's the same thing with the 6 greens, 7 reds and 5 yellows.
I had used this set for about a week when I first started painting but couldn't get used to the colors. They are just weird. But for this painting I mixed and mixed and came out with colors that I think are pretty good. In fact, I made a deal with myself. If Im gonna paint with a wide swath of colors, I can't mix a big pool of one color and keep dipping it in. I have to make a small pool of it, and add too it or change it each time I dip into it. You can see in the body of the bird there are reds oranges and yellows all throughout. And the blue of the bird is at least 4 different shades throughout.
The log the bird is sitting on started as a really pale grey, like it was really bleached out. then it got a bit darker grey, blue, yellow, green and finally it is what it is. I don't think I'm done with this one, you might see hime make a return on this sit in a finalized form, but for now, I'm back and having fun with some new paints. Trying to mix any kind of a normal color with these crazy paints is fun in itself. Thanks for the nudge
Kelly Murphy.
I haven't forgotten about all you avid Dabfly Arts readers. I have been busy. In the past week, I've worked overtime, held a garage sale, been across town about 14, flown to the moon and visited the rings of Saturn. Let's just say I've been a bit busy. Well, no matter, I'm back and putting up the pictures I should have been putting up all along. 
