Happy Thanksgiving! I hope everyone is enjoying a good meal. This is by far my favorite holiday. It’s all friends, family, and food. I worked on this painting throughout the week and even a little today. I’ve been struggling with it, but I’m on track. I really like the water and the lower right portion…
Tag: ocean
Repainting Jewel Beach
This week was difficult. I planned to work on older paintings, but I just couldn’t get myself to start. I ended up not painting until last night despite sitting down to paint multiple times throughout the week. The painting above is the result. I’m not thrilled about it, but it’s actually better than it was….
Framing Art without Brackets
I visited the Halele’a Art Gallery in Kaua’i when my husband and I vacationed there summer 2016, and came across an ingenious way to hold the canvas in the frame. The artist or framer (I don’t know which) used strips of canvas in each corner in the place of brackets to hold the painting…
Acquiring New Source Material
I almost feel bad. Almost. I haven’t really posted anything really new to my blog, or really participated in blogging or painting in a few weeks. I was on vacation in Hawaii though, so I don’t feel that bad about it. Now I’m tasking myself with the challenge of getting back to work. I…
Pasagshack Beach Sunset #2
You may remember this painting from my posts Current Works in Progress and May Update. It has come a long way since then and taken on a different feeling. While it didn’t come out the way I expected, I like it anyway. After a while of living in Kodiak, AK, I began to be a bit disappointed…
More Progress & The Liebster Award
This is first and foremost a painting blog, so here is this week’s painting update. Try as I might, I just couldn’t get this painting finished. Life has been busy lately and I haven’t had very much time to paint this week. It’s so close! I expect to finish this week. Read more about this painting: Part…
Current Works in Progress
The last couple weeks have been very busy. The school year ended, family got together, mini vacations happened, and life went on in between. I’ve been trying to sneak painting in when I can, but haven’t made much progress on anything. The above painting started off with promise, but took a series of wrong…
The Strait of Juan de Fuca
About the Painting I keep thinking, for some reason, that painting will get easier. Sometimes I work on a painting and it’s such a breeze that I think to myself “I finally figured it out! From here on out painting will be effortless and fun and I’ll crank them out at a record pace”. Then…
Painted 46 & 2 Times
I was working on this painting on Sunday and … GASP! I repainted the sky. I didn’t want to do this, it just started happening, and then it kept happening. I was completely absorbed in listening to Tool and my hands got away from me. Before I knew it the entire sky had been repainted and…
Woman’s Bay
When I set out to be a better painter, I thought the hard part would be the actual painting. It has turned out that the hardest part about painting is actually sitting down to do it. I’ve really been struggling this last week to sit down and make myself paint. I only actually succeeded…
Bay Views
I miss Alaska. It’s been 3 years since I left, but I think about it amost daily. When we arrived at our new home, I enjoyed it for a week before wishing I could go home. To my real home. I know most people think about the snow and the cold when they think…
Crashing Waves
This painting is part of the cloud series I began last year. While the clouds in this particular painting are not the dominant feature, my goal is to paint a large variety of clouds and wispy distant clouds are still clouds. The main goal of this series is to improve my previously mediocre ability…