Acrylic Class

Had my first class with Fred Bell last night. We did a still life. First he demonstrated then we worked on our pieces. He's going to teach us different approaches. Last night he started with a pencil sketch first then painted on top of it. One point I learned last night is that ellipses are usually fatter on the "vertical" sides than on the "horizontal" edges. He used the following colors in big tubes from Utrecht: titanium white, black, medium yellow, ultramarine blue, yellow ochre, burnt sienna, raw sienna, alizarin. He uses foam plates for his palette, canvas boards and a princeton 6300R #6 or #8 brush. I like the brush. It works really well. It's kind of stiff. Here's my first attempt. I'm going to keep working on it at home.