I know it isn’t a very big reveal this week, but here are the first three paintings of the challenge. Out of the three, I’m happiest with the beets. I put a couple hours into that one and really pushed it to a more polished finish. Or it could just be that I love the…
Category: Oil Painting
2019 Strada Easel 31 Day Challenge
For the month of January I will be participating in the Strada Easel 31 Day Challenge featured on their Facebook page. If you complete all 31 paintings and post them to your Facebook page daily, you will be entered in a drawing to win a Strada Easel. The rules are simple: Enter the contest before…
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…
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…
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…
Canyonlands Painting in Oil – Part 1
I loved last week’s watercolor version of this painting so much that I decided to try it again in oil. This one will be a studio painting instead of plein air though. I don’t have any sort of set up for oil plein air, so I don’t think it would go…
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…