Day Sixty-one

"Watermelon" 4x6" Acrylic on Paper (Sold)

This started out as one slice of watermelon, then one plus 2 rinds, then 2 slices, 2 rinds. Now thats its done with the 2 slices, 2 rinds, one whole I really like it. Fun painting. I was hoping it would be all happy and fun to look at, not sure thats how it ended but I like it. I didn't have a watermelon to look at so hopefully i got the lighting correct. I couldn't make up my mind for most of this painting to where the light was coming from. 

Reflections.

I have been doing a painting a day since Aug 10, so it has been almost two months now. I have roughly 60 paintings now.

It is amazing how different i feel today from doing them. Since i have started doing a painting a day i feel my painting has improved. It takes painting every day to really learn how to paint i feel. When i was painting every once and a while i forgot things i need to work on in my next painting.

I feel much more confident in my work, I took some paintings into a local gallery on the off chance they may like them. And they did! I now have 7 paintings in a gallery for sale on Main Street, Cedar Falls, Iowa. cgrahamfoto.com They have a lot of really awesome art that my work gets to keep company.

I got an awesome project of 28 Foodie paintings to do before thanksgiving and have around 22 done. Some may not make the cut, but they are coming.

I started this blog and feel even more like a real artist now that i have my work up and cleaned up.

On Aug 9, i loved art but didn't feel like a working artist. Now i feel like a real artist and its great! Painting is my meditation that keeps me happy. I don't think i have felt bored once since starting this project so i don't see an end in sight.

Day Sixty

"Grape Cluster" 4x6" Acrylic on Paper (Sold)

This weekend has been busy, and i had started this one a few days ago and it was a lot of fun. I was able to finish up on this tonight. My hands are really shaky today. I need sleep. The other day this was very fun, today i was just trying not to get random colors all over the place. Signing it was hard as my hand wouldn't cooperate. I think it turned out pretty well though. 

No Painting. Meh.

Sorry no painting today. Today i was feeling a bit meh. So i didn't plan to paint anything, about an hour before bed time though i started a painting.... but i didn't finish it so it should be up this weekend. Hopefully. Every once and awhile i just don't have it in me to paint.

So not to disappoint i will put up a picture of messi. He makes every day better.

"Messi getting cleaner" Photo. Awesomeness captured. 

Day Fifty-Nine.

"Acorn Squash" 4x6" Acrylic on paper (Sold)

Day Fifty-eight.

"Gourd Mating Dance" 4x6" Acrylic on paper (Sold)

When i was setting these up they just looked so much like birds to me that i had to paint their dance. It was a fight as they wanted to fall over but i think it turned out. Oh and I see the one on the right as male and the left female... clearly. 

Day Fifty-seven.

"Matoes" 4x6" Acrylic on paper (Sold)

This turned out to be quite fun. It was a roller-coaster  of a painting though, we had our moments of "Oh this doesn't even look like tomatoes!" to "Maybe this will work"