Loretta Armstrong demonstration at October ACAA meeting included attention to detail

Loretta Armstrong demonstrated her unique style for the October 14 meeting of the Amador County Artists Association by painting a fall scene.  Loretta likes to paint big so she had completed the first steps prior to the meeting.  The canvas had been under painted—she doesn’t like working on a white surface—and the scene drawn in vine charcoal. She then fixes the charcoal strokes with an inexpensive hair spray.  When she applies additional layers of paint, some of the lines are allowed to show through.

Loretta works with oil paints and has an unusual way to keep them workable by adding a few drops of clove oil.  Also unusual, is her use of small brushes.  Loretta especially enjoys negative painting and demonstrated by working around the pine trees in the scene, which depicts a barn and outbuildings with a multitude of farm animals.  As she was unable to complete the piece because of the size of the canvas and the time frame for the demonstration, she said she would post it on our Facebook page when finished. www.facebook.com/AmadorArtists

Before she started...

Notice the tiny brush

Blue Barn detail

End of the demo