March DPP Challenge by Daily Painter of Pennsylvania Mary Beth Brath

I absolutely love this challenge blog.  Thank you Claire for pulling this site together for the group.

At 9am this morning I started the challenge painting. Right in my kitchen. I used a large brush and quickly covered the acrylic paper with mid tone grays and started a very rough abstract painting of the values. Then I picked up a smaller brush and went at the process of breaking down the large value masses.  At 10:15am, I finished and signed my name.

I used a sample set of black and white Chroma Interactive Acrylic Paints that were given to me last summer at the Gettysburg Festival plein air events. Thank You Chroma!!

MARCH 2012 "The Black and White Challenge

THE 'BLACK AND WHITE' CHALLENGE

Welcome to the Daily Painters of Pennsylvania Challenge Blog!

One of the best ways to learn about value is to paint

with black and white. By taking color out of the equation, the

ability to see shifts in value in an object (or objects) can

become easier.

The subject matter of your painting is totally up to you, or

you can use the photograph that is shown above.

 Create your piece using any medium you want to use, but

 you can only use black and white.  You can use a premixed

black, or you can create your own chromatic black.  

My favorite mixture for chromatic black is ultramarine 

blue deep, cadmium red deep and a smidge of viridian green.  

(to check that your on the right path when you're

mixing this up, just mix a little bit of white into a little bit

of your mixture)

Good luck, and Happy Painting!

Rules of the Challenge:

1. This monthly Challenge is for DPP members only,

but anyone is welcome and encouraged to make comments on the posts.

2. Submit your Challenge entry just as you would a regular post - with

a picture of your entry and anything you would like to write about

your experience with this particular challenge. You are welcome to

submit more than one entry.

3. All entries must be posted no later than midnight March 31, 2012.

4. To get a larger, high-resolution version of the monthly Challenge photo, just click on

the photo in this post.

5. Please put only your name in the label section of your post - thanks!

(Your name should appear exactly as it does on the DPP blog)

6.  Please follow the spirit of this challenge - all submissions must be created

after the Challenge has been posted.

7. Have fun!

MARCH 2012 "The Black and White Challenge

THE 'BLACK AND WHITE' CHALLENGE

Welcome to the Daily Painters of Pennsylvania Challenge Blog!

One of the best ways to learn about value is to paint

with black and white. By taking color out of the equation, the

ability to see shifts in value in an object (or objects) can

become easier.

The subject matter of your painting is totally up to you, or

you can use this photograph of an egg.

 Create your piece using any medium you want to use, but

 you can only use black and white.  You can use a premixed

black, or you can create your own chromatic black.  

My favorite mixture for chromatic black is ultramarine 

blue deep, cadmium red deep and a smidge of viridian green.  

(to check that your on the right path when you're

mixing this up, just mix a little bit of white into a little bit

of your mixture)

Good luck, and Happy Painting!

Rules of the Challenge:

1. This monthly Challenge is for DPP members only,

but anyone is welcome and encouraged to make comments on the posts.

2. Submit your Challenge entry just as you would a regular post - with

a picture of your entry and anything you would like to write about

your experience with this particular challenge. You are welcome to

submit more than one entry.

3. All entries must be posted no later than midnight March 31, 2012.

4. To get a larger, high-resolution version of the monthly Challenge photo, just click on

the photo in this post.

5. Please put only your name in the label section of your post - thanks!

(Your name should appear exactly as it does on the DPP blog)

6.  Please follow the spirit of this challenge - all submissions must be created

after the Challenge has been posted.

7. Have fun!