11″ X 14″ oil on canvas
SOLD
It’s been so long since I posted, so I just thought I’d add a recent painting. These were dahlias from my flower garden that I placed in my latte art pitcher, because I wanted to paint a reflection. 🙂
Day 27 ~ Farmer’s Market Flowers
Tried to be loose on this one, but perhaps it ended up being too detailed. I think I’m going to try a deeper turquoise in the background to brighten it up a bit. Not the greatest photo as I took it with my phone.
Days 19 ~ 22 Sunflowers
Yellow Sun
6″ x 6″ oil on panel
Red Sun
6″ x 6″ oil on panel
Ring of Fire
6″ x 6″ oil on panel
Mini Sun
4″ x 4″ oil on mini black canvas
Day 18 ~ The Goldfish
Just joking about the title… 🙂 I’m so tired and brain numb that I asked my daughter what I should call this painting and she said I should paint a goldfish in the bowl…
18″ x 24″ oil on panel
I don’t know why I start such a big project on a daily painting challenge… but I’m not quite finished with this one… No goldfish though… 🙂
Day 15 ~ White Rose
10″ x 10″ oil on canvas
Day 9 ~ Mini Golden Rod and Zinnia Bouquet
I’ve been working on a larger painting using this bouquet in the background, but I knew I couldn’t finish it in time to post it for Day 9, so I worked on a mini today of the same bouquet. Hopefully I’ll finish the larger painting tonight and be caught up.
4″ x 4″ oil on mini canvas
Day 5 ~ The Fig Tree
I was not able to finish this one. It still needs more work…
16″ x 20″ oil on black canvas
This is the third in my series of foliage on black canvas. I will post them all together when this one is finished.
Day 3 ~ A Little Floral
Thought I would do a mini painting once a week for this challenge…
4″ x 4″ oil on mini black canvas
Day 1 ~ White Rose Gray Layer
September is here again and I was not planning on taking on the 30 in 30 Challenge this montb, but some friendly artists on Instagram encouraged me to do it, so here I am. Taking a little break from my posts on Painter’s Block to paint every day for 30 days and experiment a little with different techniques.
My first experiment is with some Flemish painting techniques. I took a photo of this rose from a beautiful bouquet of flowers that my husband bought me for my birthday. I was fascinated with the spiral and wanted to paint a rose with an emphasis on the spiral.
Old fashioned Flemish painting is done with many layers. The first layer was toning the canvas with the lightest color of the rose. The second and third layers are done in umber… I did a fast take on the umber and kind of fast forwarded to the fourth layer which is the gray layer. This took me soooo long and I still don’t have it perfect, but now I’m going to let it dry and then work on it again later on in the challenge.
Major Mess Up
At this point in my artist journey, I really thought that I had come through the painter’s block. I picked a bouquet of lilies from my flower garden and set to work on a new painting.
I really like how this turned out at first, but this is just a small corner of this painting…
Here’s the whole thing when I first started, before I reworked it, added a vase, took away the vase, added a vase again…
Before I decided I would change the background and make it darker…
Before the live flowers began to fade and fall off…
And here it is still sitting cast aside…maybe someday to be resurrected… maybe not… 😦
I really messed up, and I still don’t know how to change this.
One thing I learned here is that I have no step by step process for painting. I just kind of wing it.
That is what I now set out to discover…
But I have to say that I was extremely discouraged at this point. I really thought that perhaps it was time to quit painting. My painter’s block had come to it’s most critical point.
So sad…
