Good afternoon all, Just stopping in to tell everyone to have a great day!!!!!

#bigartquest 4 complete, on to quest 5

Cinnamon's blog is here

https://theartsherpa.com/blog

Just wanted to share 😊

Hello Cinnamon, John, and Everyone!

Cinnamon, you have been asking for requests on subjects and techniques to address.  I have one for you that has been giving me fits.

Sunflower_6729-20x16-Color.pdf

Google Docs

That is a link to an image I photographed myself of a sunflower that grew rogue in my backyard a few years ago.  I love the image and have attempted to paint it several times in acrylics, but I just can't make the paint do what I want.

(I'm primarily a colored pencil or oil pastel artist who has a love/hate relationship with all the 'wet' media, but feel this image would be gorgeous in acrylics if only I could do it.)

I give permission for anyone and everyone to use this image to make any kind of art for any purposes.  

My extreme problems with painting this image (and similar ones of yellow flowers) is capturing the blends of the muted orange to warm yellow, but more frustrating is putting in the shadows, even after knowing the exact colors of the browns and green-gold for them using the eyedropper tool in photoshop to make patches off to the side.  I either muddy the yellow too much and/or the streaks of shadows in the those creases are too bold with stark lines rather than blended edges.

I look forward to seeing other renditions and I hope you'll do this image or something similar in a tutorial.

Thanks,

Mary.

ps - if link doesn't work, let me know.

@letha - your gallery is beautiful! 

My name is Alice and I'm from southwest Mo. I love several different mediums, and enjoy the process of getting there. When the site was reset, I lost all my fiends, so I'm starting over again. I have Fibro, so I'm not on too often, but I enjoy seeing what others are doing, and learning new things. I may not comment in  the live chats, but I watch most all of Cinnamon's videos. I love all things Nature, simple country life, and animals. I have several that "Own" me. I like doing crafts, and am a practicing Brush-a-holic, I've never met a brush I didn't want. I do my very best at anything I do, but life is too short to take everything too seriously. Sometimes you just have to let it go, or just stomp the thunder out of it, and start over...LOL

So glad you guys are in the Quest and having fun. We are doing a great Quest this Thursday on Color that will give you an edge of knowing whats in your art box!!! How to use it and how to know if its warm or cool!!!

Happy Sunday Everyone! Food and Football are today's plan

QUESTION: Is the BLOG tab on our home pages inside this site meant for us to be able to write a blog? I can't access a window from there that will let me type text and include photos. Is this part of the site not working yet?