Painting has been a wonderful escape this week. It has given me something to focus on other than overwhelming feelings of anxiety and sadness. The losses suffered this year are not something that can be easily overcome. This events of this year have certainly left a lasting mark. Painting still brings me joy however so…
Category: Portrait
Getting Back to Gouache
At the beginning of this week I wasn’t sure if I would have anything to post. Since completing my last painting I didn’t know what to do with myself. On one hand, I want to get back into oil painting. On the other, I wanted to just continue on with gouache painting. As sometimes happens…
Ginger Portrait Complete – Part 5
So, I’ve been working on this painting for quite a while now. I took a break from it for the Strada Easel Challenge because I was getting frustrated with it. When I did finally come back to it, I hated it. I hated it so much that I made the drastic decision to start over…
2018 Year in Review
This year was definitely interesting as far as my painting habits go. It was both very productive in which I created some of my best paintings yet and very unproductive which led to a real struggle with painting in general. I started the year off with a bang and completed a 30 paintings in 30…
Ginger Portrait Part 4
I feel like I’m finally making some good progress with this painting. Although, I’ll probably paint over all of this a couple more times and say the same thing each time. In the previous version I had definitely used too strong of a purple for the shadows where I should have used a much more…
Ginger Portrait Part 3
It has been a while since I last posted about this portrait. Distractions, preoccupations, excuses… I’m back at it again and I think I’ve made some progress. It’s still relatively far away from completion, but It feels good to have worked on it. I readjusted the mouth again which could use a tad more adjustment…
Ginger Portrait Part 2
This week has been crazy. I have been super swamped with work. And when I say work, I mean deep cleaning a house, planning a little kid birthday party, and cleaning my own house. But that is life. Nothing, nothing, nothing, then bam! Too much all at once. I feel like I just posted…
Ginger Portrait Part 1
A while back I mentioned taking photos for a dog portrait commission. It has taken a while, due to moving, busy summer schedules, and whatnot, but I have finally gotten a solid start on it. The eyes and ears are looking pretty good, but the nose and muzzle are a little off. The muzzle…
Black Nosed Kitty Painting Finished
I finally got this little kitty portrait finished. It was a bit more over worked than I was originally aiming for, but I think it turned out nicely anyway. I can’t for the life of me remember what this cat’s name was, but with those piercing blue eyes I couldn’t stop thinking of the…
Young Buff
This painting began it’s life as a frozen blue landscape that just didn’t quite work. It took me a very long time of fiddling around with this landscape to finally come to the conclusion that the reason it didn’t work was because the aspect ratio of the panel was off. I think this scene…
Kauai Beach Chicken
Way back in 2016, my husband and I took a very belated honeymoon to Kauai, Hawaii. To our continuous amusement, there were seriously chickens everywhere and the roosters were absolutely beautiful. I took a bunch of chicken photos, and had to remind myself that I needed to be taking pictures of the landscape and…
Follow the White Rabbit
This painting was literally just the block in. I had every intension of painting over this when I was painting it, but couldn’t. I did so well with it that I just couldn’t bring myself to “finish” it. I absolutely love how rough it looks and that is was almost entirely done with larger hog…