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Saturday, June 17, 2017

May 2017


This is a painting I started and didn't finish.  I'm going to paint over it and and make something great.  I think it's good to see when a painting isn't working and just moving on to something else before trying to make it work.




I devoted this month to working on paintings for a fundraiser.  This temple was one of them and very worth my time!

This rooster is based on a another painting and the head looked so weird, so I looked up real pictures of a rooster and got a good idea of what it looks like.

 

 A Boat Watercolor:
This project was for someone specific.  I'm pretty pleased with it.


 Miramare Castle, a commission.  I did my best!  Commissions challenge me, but I really can't work on them every day or I get really stressed and unhappy.  I need to have a lot of projects that are fun and creative most of the time, and then really challenging commissions 1-2 days a week.  Then I don't get too overwhelmed.



I loved the way this turned out.  I had to change the tone of the color to a bluer color to work with shadows and not have it look so flat and black.  There is a lot of problem solving for picking out the right colors.  I hope it is as good for my brain as Sudoku or something, because I hate word puzzles.


This is my little artist that I let paint once in a blue moon.  (so much energy to get her set up and keep it safe and clean.)

This girl pretends to paint.

This is a painting that I am doing for a wonderful client.  (My mother-in-law).  I hope it turns out great.  I think it will be good enough.  My drawing honestly could be better.  I have learned that if it's not based on a really good clear picture, there is only so much you can do.


March 2017 Paint projects.










Monday, May 22, 2017

Paintings from August, September, October, November, December, January and February

This isn't totally complete, but here are a lot of the paintings I completed August 2016-February 2017.  As I went through the months, I can see a few trips we went on, and different ways we were trying to get settled in our home.  We were so busy!  Plus Christmas, plus sending my parents off, and I was pregnant. I'm not nearly as busy right now, and I can tell with my art productivity.



















Friday, May 19, 2017

Some Trees/Forests from Summer 2016

5X7 Set of Trees


2nd Set, 8X10
I did the same trees in a larger version.