First brush strokes on my newest painting. 😊💕💖💙 I rarely do direct painting (as opposed to making a grisaille to glaze over with colors). Sometimes though, this can be a very liberating exercise. As long as the process is beautiful, at least for myself, this is important, and one of the resons why I prefer to build my paintings with a grisaille first. In my eyes, the entire process is beautiful. A sketch is beautiful, and soft layers of gray are beautiful, and then the colors are added carefully and blissfully. It never looks like a mess. No sharp color blobs. I know a lot of artists like a mess, I like it too sometimes - as long as the colors are in harmony all along. Maybe I feel this way because the process is just as important as the finished result, and these are my personal preferences. 😊
