Painting 1 -- Grisaille: Fabric and Objects

This was my first oil painting. At the end of the first day of class I thought, "I am going to fail this class!" I could not make oil paint do anything I wanted. I did keep working at it and eventually got something that looked like a painting. It was not a good painting, but it was a painting. The composition included very dark red fabric, white fabric, and white, black, gray and orange objects. We could paint in black, white and shades of gray and had to finish in two class sessions. I was glad when it was done.