Orange is blue and green is red and somehow yellow is purple. My head is spinning.

This week we started a painting that is to be finished over two weeks. This week we painted the underpainting using complementary colours. This, in theory, make sense. This, in practice was challenging. It was surprisingly difficult to look at a green guitar and know to paint it in red. The same applies with painting a yellow background in purple.

Time flew. I love that for that moment, while I am in class, my biggest decision is whether a certain shade of purple is the exact opposite of a particular shade of yellow. Awesome.

My actual painting of the still life – a green guitar – wasn’t awesome. Maybe next week when we go back and paint over the painting with the true colours I might be able to salvage my painting …

This is the still life we were working from …