Learning Daily Paintings

Learning Daily Paintings

Hello there. I'm Alexander Skobeleff. I'm going to be practising painting, small painting, what they call, "Daily Paintings" every day. This, the book says, helps artists to break out of the painting doldrums some would finds themselves in.

I have been having trouble trying to paint, due to small space, confidence, and the like. So I thought, since I found this Daily Painting idea, I'll try it, and see how it goes. For now, I'm sort of working stuff out, little bit at a time.

I've created sheets which I painted white gesso on, from several sizes, waiting for them to dry, then ironing them flat as much as I could without burning them. They're perfect to practice on without spending too much. I have other sizes too, but that won't be for a long time.

• 25 A5 white gesso sheets.
• 1 A5 orange painted sheet.
• 4 A5 black painted sheets.
• 6 A3 white gesso sheets
• 4 A3 white gesso on black sheets.
• 29 A2 white gesso sheets.

 Paper 148 x 210 mm A5 sheets

Paper 297 x 420 mm A3 sheets

Paper 420 x 594 mm A2 sheets

I'll be focused on small daily paintings, to get myself into the mindset of painting, exploring the paints, the brushes, etc. Creating whatever that comes out of my hands.

If, one day, my paintings becomes better and better over time, then perhaps I may be able to sell them, if you really like one or more of my paintings, that would be greatly appreciated if you let me know, thanks.

But one thing for sure, I'll be using whatever materials I can use, adapted for painting on. I'll not be using "ready made" canvases, boards, panels, and the like. Instead, I'll make my own. Like the gessoed sheetes I created listed above, I'll uses recycled materials to make my own canvases, and the like.

MDF boards 453 x 600 mm

Stretched Denim Canvases 110 x 170 mm to 230 x 417 mm

I already made several canvases out of thin pieces of wood as canvas frames and washed denims I stapled to the frames, they came out looking great. Then I gessoed them all. I neglected to take photos of them before I gessoed them, sorry, next time I will. I must say these canvases really looks good. I looked at them long and hard and wondered what to paint for months before I came across Carol Marine's Daily Paintings and it seemed like a grand idea to do this.

Frames ready for canvases

Several boards ready to be painted asap

Certainly I would never have come up with this idea until I reads what the book says, and like that, I knew I could do it, and so I took steps to buy certain pieces of wood, some wingnuts, bolts, and washers, and built a $20 easel, and attached it to my... for want of a better word, concrete stand, that I made a few years earlier to hold up my "BOOKS FOR SALE" sign, and it fits perfectly, everything came together just right.

I'll show the $20 easel, the concrete stand, and such like.

 

 

The original $20 Art Easel on youtube, and the website. This bloke is helpful with his design.

 

Instead of attaching my easel to one of my wall, (which I have no walls since every space of my wall is covered with my bookshelves that I made years back) I uses my concrete stand, which is basically a piece of wood about 5 feet long, 2 inches thick, which I covered with long nails and bolts on one end for the concrete to hold on, which I inserts into the bucket of concrete and let it set for a week, and it worked very well.

By attaching the $20 Art Easel to it, it stood up straight and true, and hardly moves much, although seeing how I can move the easel I realises I should have made the bucket upside down, so the base would be wider, instead of at the top, so it wouldn't wobble a bit. Might make a new one one of these days, though. For now, it suits my purposes, though.

Mostly everything I have I adapted to whatever I can use them for. I got lots of thin pine wood, so I'll re-purposed them as frames to make canvases on, and I'll uses whatever material such as denim, from old jeans, or shirts, or whatever, to make canvases with. I'll be recycling and then when its' all gone, I hopes I'd be very good at painting by then, enough to make money and find better canvases, perhaps those panels Carol Marine talked about in her book, that'll be nice, a luxury, I guess.

I'll also make posts about some affiliate referrals I might make here, maybe, maybe not. Haven't earnt a thing from them in years, but who knows, this is virgin territory here for me, and I might as well try, and if you likes one or more of these products I refers to, perhaps I might get a commission from the companies that I represented, if you choose to buy a product from them, much obliged if you do.

Anyway, thanks very much for looking at my work.