Day III Painting

I love the smell of mineral spirits.
Today we learned how to check our proportions on our still life. First we got a thin paintbrush. A fat one will be misleading.Then we measured at arms length how big the model's head is. From the tip of his chin to the top of is head. Our wooden model doesn't have a name. I think it should be Winston.Using that as a guide we coounted down the length of the body and then did the same with our painting. The two measurements should match if not then the proportions could very well be off.
Then happy day we got to block in adn firm up the lines on some of our objects. The wooden model, canister ect. I accidentally blocked with large strokes instead of drawing the model. Whoops.
Finally a little color. using ultramarine and orange we made a odd grey blue color. This we used to block in our cup. Then we applied the same to the background. The drapery got a coat of  the blue with the addition of alizarin crimson. Saitsfyingly rich. There is a box in the still life and that got an application of ochre, organge and touch of blue. The man also got a little white. It is starting to look like a painting. Our glorious leader says if we dont like it we are doing it right. Then mine is a masterpiece in the tradition of finger painter everywhere.
The colors we squeezed onto our palettes were alizarin crimson, cerulean blue, ultramarine blue, red, yellow, yellow ochre, cadmium orange, and white. The siena we had there already.
I also started a another painting to fill in the odd corners of time. I think he will be a Green Man. Then again maybe he won't.