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…
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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…
Studio Redesign
Since moving to a new house back in June, my studio has been a mess. I’ve rearranged it countless times, and I haven’t been able to get it to be a pleasant and easy place to work. This week I decided to spend a bit of time rearranging again to see if I could find…
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…
Canyonlands Painting in Oil – Part 5
I think I’m finally getting somewhere with this painting. Although, it still doesn’t look a whole lot different from the last two posts. I darkened the middle background with lots of purples and a little blue too. It appears to have receded a bit into the distance with that. I also worked on getting…
Canyonlands Painting in Oil – Part 4
I really put some time into this painting this last week, but unfortunately, it doesn’t really look a whole lot different than it did last week. When I was uploading the picture, I briefly confused it with last week’s progress shot. My plan next week is to go in and glaze over a lot…
Canyonlands Painting in Oil – Part 3
Thought I abandoned this one? Nope. I just took a little break from oils for the Inktober challenge. I feel like I’ve finally made some decent progress on this painting. I finally painted in the center part of the scene and then went ahead and repainted everything else while I was at it except…
Inktober 2018 – Part 4
Inktober was a good challenge and I enjoyed drawing and I even seem to have improved a little by the end. I came close, but didn’t finish the challenge. My sweet old dog’s health rapidly declined at the end of October and she passed away. Shanzi was the best dog I could have ever hoped to…
Inktober 2018 – Part 3
This week was a real struggle to sit down and get these little drawings done. I just had zero desire to draw, but I think this might be my best week yet as far as the actual drawings go. I think I’m finally starting to see improvement in how I handle the ink. At…
Inktober 2018 – Part 2
So far in this challenge I’ve enjoyed drawing the skeleton creatures the most. I also think they’ve turned out really well. The bugs were also fun to draw despite cockroaches and spiders making my skin crawl. My husband even commented about how surprised he was that I would draw a spider. He knows me…
Inktober 2018 – Part 1
I’m having a lot of fun with Inktober so far this year. Above is my first 10 days of the challenge. I’ve forgotten to draw on three separate occasions so far, but I have tried to stay caught up by doing two drawings in a day here and there. Remembering to do it every…
Canyonlands Painting in Oil – Part 2
I haven’t made it very far on this painting yet. As usual, life has been busy and I haven’t been the diligent artist that takes makes time for art. I’m relatively happy with the rocks in the foreground so far, but I may move things around a bit still. I think there is maybe…