Nearly all of my paintings go through an ugly duckling phase, but this one was especially ugly. Thanks to effective damage control, pictures are the only evidence. Sometimes I get in a rush and don’t spend the time I should on sketching. In this case, I rushed through both the sketch and the block…
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An Apple Still Life a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Prepare yourself for apple still lifes! This is the first in a mini series of 9. Yes, I’m going to bombard you with 9 apple paintings.
Red Onion Trio Complete
This painting had me stumped for a while. I finished it, including signature, but wasn’t happy with it so I ignored it for a few days. When I went back to it I made everything darker and more defined and it looks much more finished now. I love all three of these…
3rd Red Onion in Progress
Some weeks I’m a productive painter. This was not one of those weeks. This week was incredibly unproductive all around, but that happens sometimes. I’m satisfied with the direction this painting is headed, but it’s still a session or two away from being done. Then on to the next subject. In keeping with the first…
Red Onion Love
This week’s dramatic onion: “Appreciable Amethystine.” This one is still a tad brighter than I intended, but it was hard to cover up the beautiful bright colors I made. However, my goal to make it striking and dramatic was still met. The onion itself was a breeze to paint, but the delicate onion skin laying about…
Onions with a Side of Drama
I finished this painting right after posting last week. I was so excited to use the nice purple I mixed up that before I knew it, I was signing it. This is my first completed painting in 2017 and I think I’m really starting the year off right. Since I have a whole series of roughly 30…
Mixing a Nice Purple
It’s been a while since I’ve painted some still lifes. In college and for a while after, I almost exclusively painted still lifes. I enjoyed painting them, but didn’t have an audience for them at the time. I’m ready for another go though. My still life project was originally going to be a 30 in…
10 Minute Challenge
For Christmas I received Carol Marine’s book Daily Painting and immediately read it cover to cover. I really enjoyed the book and fell in love with the idea of doing 10 minute challenges. The idea is to divide a canvas or paper into 6 to 8 small sections and paint the same subject in each…
A New Sketch & Thoughts on Caring for Brushes
The next one is on the easel. It needs some more work on the sketch, but it’s a good start. I’m actually really happy with the mouth and left eye. The right eye and the nose especially, need more work. This painting is going to be my first color portrait of a person. I…
Oil Painting Portrait – Part 7
Finished! I’m relieved that to have finally finished this painting. It nearly didn’t get finished this year. I got it about 98% done and got stuck. I just didn’t know what needed to be done. It took nearly a week before I could see that last little bit that would put it over the finish…
Selling Art
This week I posted a handful of paintings for sale in a local Facebook sales group as well as to my personal page. I’m proud to announce that I’ve sold a painting. While it isn’t my first sale, it is my first sale to someone other than my mother-in-law. The next big sales milestone…
Oil Painting Portrait – Part 6
It’s almost done! I finally made some really good progress on this painting and the finish is clearly in sight. A quick peruse through my photos revealed that I’ve been working on it off and on since January. It’s now December. I have taken months off from working on it at a time due to…