Art & football...

Here's my first painting for my Painting I class:

"Break Between Work and School"

This is the second time in my life I've painted with oils. The first was high school. I've always been more of a drawer than a painter, mostly due to the expense of paint and canvas. But from this I now know I like oils better than acrylic paints... seen in person the oil creates beautiful colors. Acrylic is literally PLASTIC paint, and therefore always has a plastic look to it. Oil on the other hand is deep, rich colors, with somewhat of a transparency of light. Again this is a crappy cellphone camera photo, so all you can really see is flat shapes and shadows, but no color variations compared to the real deal. The shoe for example has nice shades of light greens and browns that you can't even see here, in this murky photo it all just looks like mustard yellow. :(

And no, I didn't attempt to put the "Coca-Cola" name on the label... first, because I had to finish this painting today so I didn't have time, and secondly because I didn't want to take the chance of screwing it up! Trying to paint cursive letters ain't easy!


And on football...

I like having this Palmer guy for QB, my team won again 154-107. A good old-fashioned ass kickin! But I have to play the league owner's team this next week... it may be tougher.