Day Ninety-five

"Snack Time" 4x6 Acrylic on paper $30

Quick little Study, fun painting, LOVE these cookies! Still working on being painterly and looser. Still no self portraits this week as my challenge stood... so far not that great of success on that half. But honestly i see enough of myself. 

Day Ninety-four

"The Big Circus" 5x7" acrylic on paper $75 (Sold)

i think i enjoy 5x7's better than 4x6's. SO more 5x7's to come! This was really fun, i loved going to the circus when i was little and i think this captures my feelings pretty well. 

Day Ninety-three

"Rain" 7x5" Acrylic on paper 

I was pondering waiting to post this on a day where I didn't paint, but couldn't. I'm stoked about this painting, really liked painting it, really like it done. Hope you enjoy! and while it's controlled i don't feel its as stiff as some of my others, and is painterly as well. Yay. So far this week's challenge is going well... although neither painting from today is a self portrait. 

Currently up for auction http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/90547 starting bid set at $50. 

Day Ninety-two

"Crowd" 5x7" Acrylic on paper $40

Attempt one on being more painterly. Parts of it I like, parts i don't. 

Weeks Personal challenge

I am very controlled when i paint. I paint lines on when i breath out and i nit-pick every line i make. Then i look at paintings that are painted painterly (loosely, freely, organically) and am so jealous. And i can not do it. I try and in the end i have a controlled painting. So this week i am going to paint on larger 5x7 and 6x6 inch paintings and work on loosening up, having high contrast, and more dramatic lighting. I am not working as much this week at my job so i am going to try to do more than one painting a day, loosely. I have been thinking about doing loose self portraits as well so i have one subject and can paint it over an over at different angles, just see how it goes. I would love feed back as well.

Day Ninety-one

"Somewhere on the Coast 2" 4x6" Acrylic on Paper $40

Day Ninety

"Some where on the coast" 4x6" Acrylic on paper $40

Aw, look where my research took me. 3 colors Cad Red medium hue, Cad yellow Medium, Winsor blue and white. One hour. Still not loose but getting there... maybe. 

Sigh

Some days i just can't paint, I have no idea of a subject and all subjects sound stupid and i don't want to paint them. Last night i was trying to force myself to paint i will paint messi, i will sketch messi eating, messi sleeping... Which i did sketch and they were AWFUL! Some days your mind gets in the way, everything just sounds like a bad idea and i beat myself up over it.

Tonight i will paint though have no fear. I took today and yesterday looking at videos of art and listening to art radio (which i did not know about before today!) and looking at others art. Research days i say.

Day Eighty-Nine

"Messi 3" 4x6" Acrylic on paper, $40

Just a really quick sketch of my favorite boy, Messi chewing on a bone. He's such a little wiggle worm when being painted! and he is not this fat. 

Day Eighty-eight

"Let there be light" 4x6" acrylic $40

Just a quick little study tonight, amazing how much i am learning to see from a painting a day. I love doing little paintings and if i go to bed with out painting i feel like i have failed or forgot something. I am very tired though so i am off to bed. Night! 

Day Eighty-seven

"eyes" 4x6" Acrylic on paper $40

I just wanted to paint something fun and loose. I really enjoyed painting this. 

Day Eighty-six

"Lonely" 4x6" Acrylic on paper $40

Day Eighty-Five

"Blue and Orange" 4x6" acrylic on paper

Day Eighty-Four

"Napoleon" 4x6" Acrylic on paper (Private commission)

This is my friends cat Napoleon, when he was just a wee little kitten some person threw him out of his car while going down the highway. A man saw this and thought it was just trash until he saw him moving in a puddle in the road, that man brought him to the shelter when my friend and i happened to be working. This caused extreme damage to his ear, which then had to be removed completely. He also had a broken tail that mended itself. He was half starved and cold and very scared. But with a bowl of food he started to purr and our hearts were lost. He just celebrated his first birthday. 

day eighty-three

"My best friend" 4x6" acrylic on paper

This is messi, not 100% happy with this, for a while i had his head just floating and that looked.... really odd. Love him more than i can say. I have been having a hard time with things lately, he sticks to my side the whole time i am home.. which honestly is not that different than normal, but i really appreciate it. 

Day Eighty-two

"Empty and Waiting" 4x6" acrylic on paper (Not for sale as of now)

Wow, i have had a tough week. This is my husbands spot. 

few days off

i am thinking of taking a few days off to work on a large painting. I am thinking about posting progress on it, but i also kind of want to wait until it is finished to show anyone. Time will see. I will try to do a small daily painting as well but depending on my work schedule i may not be able to do both every day.

Day Eighty-one

"Self Portrait 2" 4x6" Acrylic on paper (Not for sale)

Well, not in the greatest mood tonight. However, i do feel pretty good about how this turned out. It does rather look like me. The camera glare kind of messed up the highlights in my hand, but i don't care at the moment.