2875. Summer Sky painting (preview)

Canvas painting has been intriguing me for a while, especially since I started doing more analog work last year. But I hated the idea of buying even more art supplies not knowing I'd enjoy it or not. Acrylic gouache or oil paint look scary for me for a while until one day, my brain just decided that I want to paint in canvas. I think that would be fun.

And my brain was right. Canvas painting is so much fun!

I kept chanting: "trust the process..." during painting process. It was clear that alcohol markers aren't designed for canvas painting, but it's all I have at home that's the most compatible with cotton canvas.

Surprisingly, as I was also pretty new with alcohol markers myself – there's no golden-period for colour blending. I can leave the painting halfway for many hours, return to it, and the marker can blend previous colours on the canvas just alright. It feels slippery, mixing feels a bit awkward at first, but when I look the painting from further distance, it looks really nice.

I didn't like how the sky turned out, but it was limitation of the alcohol markers. It was when I thought: perhaps I want to buy a set of acrylic paints. I don't know. It's too early to decide, and it doesn't sound very wise in this economy when I have my beloved 8-year-old pocket watercolour set and the tube watercolour set from last year.

But, as I got myself several of this cotton canvas for really great price, it would be wasted if I don't paint them. I'm the only artist in the house, so these canvases would only come to life only with my hands and creative juice.

By the way: I recorded the painting process of this painting! 🙌 The video is really large, so I need some time to render them to be shorter and lighter to upload here. It should be up in the next post!