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…
Category: Oil Painting
Little Duckling
My favorite new thing is hog hair brushes. Except they aren’t new and I’ve had a pile of them sitting in my studio unused for years. For a long time I wanted to paint finer details and couldn’t really achieve that with hog hair brushes so I turned to soft synthetic brushes. I…
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…
Grey Bunny Painting
I have continued to experiment with using larger hog hair brushes for painting and I’m still loving the look of it. I did a few coats of paint on the rabbit, but left the background with the original block in since I liked it so much. I honestly thought I would have finished…
The Colonel Rooster Painting
Meet The Colonel. He was a rescue rooster that I had for couple years and one of the nicest and bravest roosters I had over the course of handful of years I kept chickens. He was so nice, I could pick him up and pet him and he never attacked me, the kids, or…
Grey Kitty Painting
This painting is a 7.5×7.5 inch oil on canvas. It is a bit experimental and a total departure from my normal style. I really love it though. This was the look I was after with my previous black canvas paintings that I failed to achieve because I just couldn’t not paint the entire surface….
Whiskey Puppy Portrait
I don’t know why I struggled with this painting so much. It started out with so much promise and I loved it so much, but then I painted a teal background and that was. the end of it. It went in a direction I didn’t like and the more I tried to fix it,…
A Year of Oil Painting without Solvents
It has been a year now since I first began my little experiment to use walnut oil to clean my brushes. My goal was to get away from the tedious task of standing at the sink for ages to clean my brushes. In that, I have definitely succeeded. Using this method has changed how I…
Cat Portrait: Kiki
I love it when paintings practically paint themselves. Unfortunately, this was not one of those paintings. It seems like only one in 5 work out that well and, after a really easy painting I end up really struggling on the next one. Yet I still expected this painting to be easier. I think coming off…
Shanzi: Repainted
This is a painting of my old dog, Shanzi, and probably one of my favorite paintings to date. I absolutely love how it turned out and wouldn’t change a thing. I feel like doing the 30 in 30 challenge has really paid off in this painting. This isn’t entirely an original painting though since…
Peppers in a Bowl
This painting was started way back in November 2017. It sat, mostly finished, for a couple of months while I completed other projects. I couldn’t stand to leave it, so close to being done, so I quickly finished it after the 30 in 30 challenge in January. Finishing it before starting a new project…