Making a weekly plan
Today, I need to make a plan for the week So I am scoping out making a weekly plan. I need to sit down with my printed plan and expand tasks and assign days and time for them. In the past, I sort of just moved with the flow. Not putting a lot of effort into planning. Well that is changing now. Flying by the seat of my pants has not worked well for me of late.
Looking back at last week
I got these tasks done:
- Cleaned in the garage a bit
- made meals and shopped
- Mowed and put cow poo in the vineyard area
- keep up watering plants
- worked on my other websites
- did an art skill exercise
- potted some seedlings (need more done)
Proud of last weeks art skills practice
This is what I did in art skills development. Used a method Scott Waddell suggested of working from light to dark to create a 3-D effect. I was taught in all my classes to work from dark to light! I liked the better effect of working from light to dark. There are several reasons.
- The colors mix a bit faster
- The colors don’t get muddy as fast (in the past – my colors get dark and muddy)
- I can develop a scale better (Scott uses this to lay out his shapes
By the third one, I felt I was getting it. Afterwards – I wrote this.
Yesterday did the circles in skin tones – but looking at the pictures I need to work on the following.
- Need to have more light pink skin tones instead of orange based ones
- Need more pink and yellow on my skin tone circles with lighter shadows maybe a bit of blue/green tones
Looking at Leedel‘s pictures, my memories of John Fulwiler’s skin tones and Jim Richardson’s pictures, I need more yellow with blue under tones for them. Jim has more pink – red as does Leedel. Thus, my next, exercise will be to use lighter colors. Note to me – Not using black helped keep the exercises not muddy.
Take away of the exercises, I need to revisit Daniel Greene’s colors vs Scott’s palette colors. That works for mid range McPherson skin tones 8-12 but not so well for lighter skin tones McPherson 2-7. So I need to practice with these to capture the skin tones better and create the 3-D effects I want. As you gentile readers can see, I have six more circles to use.
Next Week’s plan
So I have modified my 12 week year plan. I don’t have it my plan on this website as it is personal now. But this is how the art plan outline looks:
Art
- Oil Paint skill improvement – Practice portraits and 3-D
- Jim Richardson’s portrait and frame
- practice till I can’t get in wrong
- do daily exercises on skin tones and blending
- practice drawing and coloring gem and jewelry designs till they look real
- design Mardi Gras earrings
Well now to go write up my check lists and weekly plan. Hope this helps gentile readers. Make plans to have a great week!