This year was a mixed bag. It was very positive in terms of my art and getting back into the workforce and very difficult due to some unexpected losses. Overall, I’m grateful this year has finally come to a close. I’m ready for a fresh start in 2020. After nearly a decade of being a…
Tag: daily painting
Days of Gouache – Complete
Way back in May I started a 30 day gouache painting challenge. It quickly turned into a challenge to filly my sketchbook, then the next sketchbook and finally my goal was to complete 100 paintings. I took plenty of days off so I didn’t finish this challenge in 100 days, but I did make it…
Days of Gouache – The Lost Weeks
Originally, this was a post celebrating the final days of this 100 painting gouache challenge. But life stepped in and crushed me with the loss of my dogs. I did continue to paint, but it was sporadic and difficult. It was an attempt to add structure and routine back in my life with only marginally…
Days of Gouache – Week 16
After a brief break, I’m finally getting back into the groove of daily painting. I’ve been silent on instagram this week, but that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been painting. It can be stressful to post to social media several times a week and I really needed the break. I jumped back in with the…
Days of Gouache – Week 15
Not much in the way of painting happened this week. After the super busy week I had last week, this week has been a recovery week. I finished up this semi abstract painting on black paper and it turned out way better than I thought it would. It is also the largest gouache painting I’ve…
Utrecht Color Theory Challenge Complete
For the month of March, I challenged myself to paint 30 6×8 landscapes using only a limited palette of Utrecht paints. I further limited myself to painting local landscapes from my own references. Going into this, I knew I would be challenged by my inability to paint convincing rocks and the very real struggle to…
Utrecht Color Theory Challenge – Week 4
Day 22. When I was first starting to paint, I would look up tutorials on how to paint clouds, rocks, flowers, etc. I would watch these highly specific tutorials and do my best to follow them and struggle anyway. Eventually I figured out that learning to paint and learning to paint a flower are one…
Utrecht Color Theory Challenge – Week 3
Day 15. I’ve officially half way through this challenge. Only 15 paintings left. I’ve unfortunately hit a bit of a wall though. The last two paintings weren’t quite as good as I wanted them to be. They aren’t necessarily bad, but I can do better. With this painting specifically, I finished it but really wasn’t…
Utrecht Color Theory Challenge – Week 2
Day 8. Painting these large rock faces has been interesting. I think I may even be starting to get the hang of it. If I think of it as more of an abstract and am really messy about mixing my colors with my brush I can get a large variety of color and textures. The…
Utrecht Color Theory Challenge – Week 1
Day 1 and I’m already struggling. The yellow has been pretty difficult to mix so far. The green created by mixing the yellow and blue was really gross. You can see it only in a tiny part of this painting behind the trees on the right on the distant mountainside. My main way of getting…
Utrecht Color Theory Landscape Challenge
This March I will be painting 30 landscapes in 30 days with a limited palette of Utrecht paints. It has been a few years since I’ve painted landscapes and I’m really excited to get back into it. This challenge also fits nicely into my goal this year of completing several 30-day challenges. I will be…
2019 Strada 31-Day Challenge Complete
This challenge went better than I had anticipated. And I finished it. Woo! Compared to the first time I did a 30-day challenge, this time was a cake walk. I’m not totally sure why though. It could be that my subjects were easier, I was more practiced in daily painting, the fact that I didn’t…