What seems like a couple decades ago (but is probably only about three years) I started this painting. I was still using a film camera -- okay, maybe five or six years ago -- and I remember doing a pastel sketch as a preliminary. Then I took an old canvas that had a rough undercoat in blue and gold of a image of a fish, and used black oil paint to block in the palm trees.
And then I forgot it.
Lately I've been itching for oil paints, so today I bit the bullet and dragged out all the stuff -- the brushes, the canvases, the tubes of pigment.
I'm not really sure of where I'm going with it, but at least it's not palm tree silhouettes against a fish outline any more.
Not particularly interested in realism with this one; it's just an exercise.
Lessons learned: You must use it or you will lose it, and have to start back at Square One.
And student-grade cadmium orange doesn't cover underpaint worth a shit.
And Payne's gray + cadmium orange ends up looking like a dirty moldy green.
But it did cover the erstwhile fish.
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