Please take a look at my other blog –I’m putting some small artworks up for sale to benefit the Red Cross’s Japanese Earthquake Relief Fund, and offering free shipping for those items and any others ordered at the same time. When something so monumentally awful happens, it’s easy to feel helpless. I’d like to [...]
I had some fun this morning making a larger-than-my-usual painting, and I even used house-painting brushes for most of it, which seemed somehow weirdly wrong. They worked well to cover the canvas, though, and I have some other large-ish canvases, so I’ll be using them again. Originally I’d been planning a much more orange [...]
Well, yesterday it finally happened: I had to turn on the heat when I came downstairs in the morning. First time this autumn, and certainly not the last, although today it is much warmer again and no extra heating is required. The forecast for the rest of the week looks pretty moderate, in fact, so [...]
Following the Masters has a very challenging challenge right now — “The Art of the Self Portrait”. It wasn’t so much the portrait itself that was the challenge for me, but calling it “finished” was hugely difficult. One more dab here, a little value change there, a bit of different blue alongside that yellow, and [...]
Yet another internet challenge painting, this time for the Wet Canvas landscape forum, which Karen the blogless (no blog, no web site, what’s wrong with that woman?) pointed me at. Every month several photos are posted, and people choose one (or several, in some cases) to paint. The one I used as my reference is [...]
This is a painting of how the early morning light comes into my kitchen and falls on the wall behind one of the counters — at least, that’s how the painting started. Or, that’s one of the ways it started. It really started because I wanted to do something with a lot of texture, so [...]
There are so many interesting painting challenges on the web these days! Over at Different Strokes From Different Folks the current challenge is cupcakes. The Virtual Paintout is touring Lisbon this month. Painting at About.com has “miniature paintings” as the September challenge. That last one is where I entered the autumn painting on the left. [...]
Another little one done while having my morning tea…. The weather today is (for a change) warm and sunny, so I felt inspired to convey warm sunniness in the painting. By this afternoon there are supposed to be showers and thunder again (we’ve been having lots of both lately), so perhaps I’ll do something stormy [...]
Over at The Virtual Paintout, Bill Guffey each month invites people to tour a different city via Google Street View and create art from something they see. Last month, it was Florence, Italy, and this month it is Barcelona, Spain. My painting is from a view of a golf course. I wanted to portray a [...]
It’s been hard to get posts written lately, but I have been working on some things…. This picture started with one of Frank’s photos of a rusted metal surface. I doodled around over top of it with Artrage, a digital art program that I really like. This is my first attempt at this sort of [...]
