Friday, January 8, 2010

Lost Blog



Somehow my blog became deleted.  It could be seen but I could not post on it.  Finally after several hours of frustration, I managed to reinstate it and so I am back !   Here is w hat I have done following the holidays.  My husband grew a beard and I decided to paint the character that he is.  Here are also the photos of the beard leaving by degrees.  Hope you enjoy !

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Workshop



I went to a workshop with Jeremy Lipking. It was fun to see his studio and all the beautiful art. His wife, Danielle was a wonderfully nice person.  The time went by fast and I hope that I picked up some new ideas.  I think that the one thing that I came away with that was most important was to take my time with the initial decisions whether I am setting up a figure or a still life.  All in all, it was pretty expensive. 

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Tall Teapot


This is a painting that I painted when I had taken too much cough and migraine medicine.  I had a hard time focusing on all of the information that I have learned through the years.  I think that it helped that I could not focus well.  I thought only about shape and color and absolutely nothing else.  I can really see how Walt Disney, Lewis Carroll and so many others may have been more successful in an altered state.  I am not advocating this though as I really didn't like feeling so out of control.  I'll be reading the dosage information more carefully from here on out.
Hope you enjoy. I would love to know what you think or if you have had any similar experiences.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Rainy days and puddles Final


Here is the finished painting.  The changes are small but important.  Thank you for following along with this demonstration of the development of one of the approaches I use in painting.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Rainy days and puddles step 2 and 3



Here I placed the darks while maintaining the lights.  I used only three main colors and naples yellow and a little white.  It was a challenge to keep the values while working with such a limited palette.  My palette consisted of a cool purple, warm red and a warm green.  The colors were pre mixed.
Hope this gives you ideas to try.
Thank you for following this demonstration.  I will post the final painting soon.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Rainy days and puddles


I am working on this painting and thought that I would post a progression. This first image is the drawing plus a wash so that I will stay in the color palette that I have decided to use for this painting.  Hope you enjoy seeing this develop and I welcome any comments !

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Sunset on the Ohio


Here is a painting I painted a few weeks ago.  It was a challenge because I found it difficult to get the correct values with it being just at sunset. I hope that I did justice to this beautiful scene.
Thank you for your thoughts.