Painting Exercise - Palette Knives

My friend, Barbara, paints with palette knives and I like what she does with them, so I ordered a set - they were inexpensive.  In the class I am taking we were given the instruction to paint with colors we don't normally use and to use tools we don't normally use.  Since I have rarely used palette knives and they had just come in, I thought that was perfect.    I decided to do a nice serene landscape, with a little barn in a field.  Ha!  The best laid plans.......

I chose some colors and started on a 5" by 7" canvas that I already had. My first shock was that I could not seem to get the paint to behave with the knives. (This is a skill that I may need to learn.) The colors didn't seem to play that well together either.  I chose three primaries. Red -red oxide.  Blue - Fluorescent Blue. Yellow - Yellow Ochre.  I added a Bright Aqua Green to the mix along with Black, White and Titan Buff (a light tan.)  I painted on and scrapped off.  I felt some frustration and I really really wanted to just use my brushes.  But, I was following the directions - because I do want to find new joy in painting. 
I reached a point where I was ready to walk away and let it dry.  But a little niggling voice in the back of my head kept saying "You could collage a little bit on that horizon line."    When I was straightening up the area to start painting I had moved some things and saw some painted papers that I had created at some time in the past for collage.  The fact is, I almost never collage in my work. That played right into the lesson, so I did it.   When I started putting down the collage pieces, I got excited.  I went a while longer and this is the result for now.  I see a couple of minor corrections I want to make, but I like it.

Until Next Time,  

Stay Creative 

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