This painting is actually the third rendition of this teacup. The first one - a 25 minute exercise was too saturated. Yesterday I experimented mixing colors. I changed my paints around and abandoned temporarily the limited primary palette. Using a variety of Williamsburg paints in a variety of earth colors, I did a quick brush sketch of just the cup against a dark background.
Today I went for the full painting which took about 50 minutes. So far, I'm pleased with how things are going. I'm still keeping the spirit of the quick paintings - not sitting down more than 25 minutes at a time and not doing more than 2 sessions for each painting. This may mean some days I don't have a post-worthy painting but when I do get one, it makes it all worthwhile.
