About the Painting I keep thinking, for some reason, that painting will get easier. Sometimes I work on a painting and it’s such a breeze that I think to myself “I finally figured it out! From here on out painting will be effortless and fun and I’ll crank them out at a record pace”. Then…
Tag: oil painting
Painted 46 & 2 Times
I was working on this painting on Sunday and … GASP! I repainted the sky. I didn’t want to do this, it just started happening, and then it kept happening. I was completely absorbed in listening to Tool and my hands got away from me. Before I knew it the entire sky had been repainted and…
Gone Camping
I knew I wouldn’t be able to get a painting done by press time this week. I was away with my family on our annual spring break camp trip for a chunk of last week. I should be able to finish this painting in the next few days though. Before I left, I was working on building my…
Fire Fins
I really like this painting. The sky just came together so flawlessly that I actually prefer my painted clouds over the reference picture. It’s interesting to me how paint can elevate a scene in a way that’s so different from photography. The bottom half was a real struggle though. I just couldn’t figure out how…
Woman’s Bay
When I set out to be a better painter, I thought the hard part would be the actual painting. It has turned out that the hardest part about painting is actually sitting down to do it. I’ve really been struggling this last week to sit down and make myself paint. I only actually succeeded…
Hell’s Revenge
A couple years ago my family was really struggling. My husband left a reliable job for the prospect of a new one that didn’t pan out for almost a year. It was a very difficult year in which we found ourselves extremely poor and nearly homeless on a couple occasions. Not an easy situation for…