Day 11- work in progress
28x22 oil on stretched canvas
Work in Progress
Day 10- Leaves Of Grass 6x12 Oil on cradled panel.
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Day 10- Leaves Of Grass
Leaves Of Grass 12x6 Oil and cold wax on deep cradled wood panel.
Day 9- One Size Does Not Fit Us All
Day 9- One Size Does Not Fit Us All
12”x12” Mixed Media with Monoprints and patterns on painted cradled wood panel.
I discovered the method of making monoprints with a gelatin plate recently. Each print is unique and a surprise- a huge part of the appeal. I used two of those artworks in this one.
I really like this one.12x12, Mixed Media on painted cradled wood panel.
Days 7 and 8- Hide and Seek, and Lofty Story
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| Hide And Seek 8x10 oil on stretched canvas
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| Lofty Story 11x14 oil on stretched canvas |
Day 6- Twist Of Fate
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| Twist Of Fate 24x36 oil on stretched canvas |
It was fun to work larger today... but how to fill all that space? I started with the dark Payne's Grey line swooshed across the middle from left to right, then started lower left and swooshed another palette knife line to upper right. The rest was just trying to make what I did seem like I had a reason for doing it. Like explaining something you did without thinking. The first half of the time I worked only in turquoise and the dark grey. It was clear I needed more color, so brought in the ochre and the white. I used a brush and a thick foam pad that came as packaging in something I bought. And added a skippy kind of line with the palette knife here and there. You're not supposed to have the focal point in the middle, so maybe I blew it. But although the lines converge there, I'm going to reason that nothing holds your eye there, so let's say there's a moving focus. Yeah, that's it. A moving focus. Yeah.
Day 4 Accidental Landscape
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| Accidental Landscape 8x10 Oil and Cold wax on stretched canvas |
and before I knew it, a landscape of sorts appeared. I have painted few landscapes. Faces are my bailiwick. but I do like how this turned out. Broken color appeals to me. Like a mosaic of tiny bits that read as something from a distance.
Day 2 - 30 Paintings in 30 Days
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| San Antonio And Vicinity 12x17 Mixed Media |
Three of the vertical panels consist of mono prints I made and then pieced into the furrows of the tray. One of the mono prints was made on a map of San Antonio. One panel is acrylic paint marked into with a silicone tip, and the last is a piece of hoarded tissue paper, decoupaged into place. This piece was a pleasurable puzzle. I'm pleased with the result. Now what to do with the remaining hundreds of the microscope trays?
30 Paintings in 30 Days- Day 1
Turquoise Tour
8x10 oil on stretched canvas
I'm way off my beaten track to explore how it feels to paint abstractly. Confidence low, excitement high, Thirty days of this experiment should tell me something... but what?
My 30 Paintings in 30 Days, January 2017
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| January 1-30, 2017 |
Day Thirty- 30 Paintings in 30 Days- John
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| John |
John is our neighbor and a super sweet guy. I really relished getting time to know him a bit better.
Okay. John's portrait is my thirtieth painting this month. Whew. It's been VERY good for me to participate in this challenge.
Thank you for sending positive energy while I painted my way through January! It took a bit of stamina to make myself paint the 2-6 hours each day. Yesterday, it was actually 9 hours, maybe more. But I've come out on the other end a lot stronger and more confident and with a renewed notion that I AM a painter, and that I do love to paint and I want to develop my skills and add to them. I think I was beginning to think all that was in the past for me.
So, I will commit to actively searching out worthy subject matter and making painting a regular part of my life again. I'm grateful to have other painters and friends with whom to share the journey. Thank you!
Day Twenty-Nine -30 Paintings in 30 Days - Sam
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| Sam |
Sam is a neighbor, fine artist, graphic designer, improv troupe member, wonderful conversationalist and who knows what else? I'm just getting to know her, but it was a pleasure to paint her today.
Day Twenty-Eight - 30 Paintings in 30 Days - Mo
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| Mo |
My daughter offered to pose for a photo so my 28th day's painting could be of her. I really enjoyed this one. It was painted in three spurts: Before and after she and I went to see Tom Hanks in Inferno, and after we went to see an Improv show nearby.
Thanks always to the small core of artists who come by to be good company as I paint online!
Day Twenty-Seven -30 Paintings in 30 Days - Good Novel
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| Good Novel |
I love images of people reading, can you tell? Even out in public, if I see someone with a book I'm shameless in trying to figure out what they're reading. If I can't see the title, I often just ask. I wonder what this fellow is lost in? I'm guessing it's a novel. Adventure? Spy? Mystery? Well, it's a mystery to me.
Day Twenty-Six- 30 Paintings in 30 Days - Idalina
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| Idalina |
Ok, the REAL Idalina is ever so much lovelier than my poor painting. But this is what I managed to slap down in about two and a half hours. Heavens! This 30 painting marathon is taking a toll on my painter's pride. It's so hard to let an evening's work suffice for the task at hand. It's accomplishing the overall objective... to oil up my rusty painting muscles and rusty painting brain... but it's wearing on my need to turn out something worthy.
Day Twenty-Five- 30 Paintings in 30 Days- Surveying Her Queendom
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| Surveying Her Queendom |
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| Before... almost. |
The Before was a painting I did in a workshop nine years ago, when I was just new at oil painting. I forgot to take a picture of it until I'd already sketched in a cowgirl hat, so you'll have to mentally remove that to see the Before. I remember the great Judith Carducci looking at my efforts and speculating that I might have cataracts. It really threw me. As it turns out, I've had that confirmed, now these years later. I don't know why I kept the painting. It had been of the model in the workshop and I couldn't see any use for the thing, but kept not tossing it. Today when I was rooting around for a panel to paint on, I came across this "Before," and thought maybe I'd paint over it. But then I thought of her as a Cowgirl... and two hours later she was a rancher out "Surveying Her Queendom." A much better ending for that old start, I think. It's more cleavage than most ranchers might show, I suppose, but maybe she just got up and threw her jacket over her nightgown...? Hey, it could happen!
Day Twenty-Four - 30 Pantings in 30 Days- Profile
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| Profile |
I just used burnt sienna, white and black. Most of the light areas were created by removing paint down to the canvas with mineral spirits.
Tonight I tried just painting by myself. Not online. But I watched/listened to PBS news and then the Rachel Carson biography. After all these years of hearing about Silent Spring, it made me want to read it, and it really made me appreciate what a difference she made in our lives.
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