One cool thing about teaching yourself to paint with acrylics is that you can reuse already painted on canvases. That means each time you try something that doesn’t turn out so good, the canvas is not wasted. Trust me, you will waste a lot of canvases in the beginning. A few weeks back, my talented photographer friend, Son of a Beach posted a photo of a lone gull in the sunset and I just knew I wanted to try to paint it. I had just the thing… one of my very first attempts was full of all the colors I would be using for the new painting so no worries about bleeding through. Here’s the result: