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10/15/2026

Purdy Stage 5
I can honestly say that I am starting to wonder if I'll ever paint any other colors than the grey scale on Purdy. He's looking so good, what's the point of using other colors?
Only thing keeping me on this track is my curiosity of how the other colors will react over all this grey.
Ready or not, colors are next! 🤓

10/13/2026

Purdy Stage 4
Looks as if this painting is taking on Autumn vibes with these yellows and browns. I love how much warmer the painting has become.
I'll add colors to Purdy next 💪🏽💗🤓

10/09/2026

Purdy Stage 3
Tonight I fell into painting more details. I love Purdy's face. He's definitely starting to look like he's strutting for his ladies. 🤭😁❤️
I'll start adding a color to the glaze layers to warm up the grey tones and to help build direction of light.
One step at a time. I sure am glad I'm using acrylic paint because using oils would stretch out the amount of drying time between the layers significantly.

10/05/2026

Purdy Stage 2

I wonder how many stages it'll take me to finish this painting.

I'm applying the Grisaille method, to the best of my understanding of the method, and I think I'm starting to understand why someone may use this method. I think my curiosity will be satisfied once I start applying color layers on top of all these gray layers.

I'll add another layer or two of the gray scale and glazing medium and then turn on the colors 🤓🤭❤️

10/01/2026

Canvas Paper Roses
I had the best time this evening just playing around on the canvas paper. I'm in love with the filbert brush these days, as I am sure you will recognize by the brush strokes.
I enjoy working through all the steps of painting a rose that David has shared in his videos. If I forget something this time, I might just remember it next time, but for the most part I think my memory was good tonight 😁🤭

09/24/2026

Purdy Stage 1
This evening I couldn't resist the urge to paint something other than roses. David has said time and time again that artists need to paint many other subjects, not just the same subject every time, otherwise you don't grow.
So tonight I started painting a portrait of my favorite rooster, Purdy. So named because he is so pretty, and I tell him every time I see him. He is a handsome, polite, and gentle rooster. I only hope to come close to representing his beauty in my portrait.
Here's the first phase. More to come!

09/17/2026

Red Watercolor Roses
Red! What a difficult color to paint roses in. During recent business travel I found time in the mornings to paint these two red watercolor roses.
I didn't get to try this out in acrylic first because I didn't have brown madder, a color that David explained is essential in painting a red rose. So when I sat down to paint the first red rose, I was only going from memory of having watched David's red rose video from his 30 Days of Roses series some 6 months before.
The second rose was different in that I tried to remove color for highlights. I don't know which rose I like best because they both have something that I like about them. 🌹
Have you tried painting a red rose?

08/30/2026

The Flower Brush

I've heard and read about the filbert brush being called the flower brush.

I have even painted flowers with the filbert brush. And every time I do, I walk away feeling as if I just found out for the first time how wonderful this brush is when applied to flowers.

David is always saying that we have to push ourselves by doing things we don't like or want to do because that's how we grow and learn.

Indeed! I have been using the flat brush for so many paintings that using the filbert today was a learning experience but also a pleasure.

08/29/2026

Mixed Bouquet

Tonight I finally sat down to paint. I had no design idea in mind and I had to start the rose over but eventually I started to like what I was accomplishing on canvas.

As I step away from the canvas I see that I have painted a mixed bouqet. Looks like I put two bouquets together in this one. Very interesting 🤔

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