Day 4 of painting (01/24/12)

Today's painting session was much more encouraging. Margee continued to demonstrate shading and highlighting techniques, always starting from dark to light. We worked primarily on the teapot today, but I was also able to get caught up in other areas as well. Margee suggested squinting our eyes so that we don't focus too much on everything we see in a particular part of the painting. She also demonstrated how to hold the paintbrush in different ways to accurately shade or highlight an area. For someone who is not in the class and therefore has no idea about the steps shading and highlighting requires, the current status of my painting may look confusing. However, I left today's class feeling much more accomplished and confident about the future of my painting.

At the beginning of class, my painting looked like this:

After doing a bit more shading, highlighting and filling in of color, I left the painting like this: