So hey… Here is another 30 in 30! Should I say I am excited or overwhelmed? Reworking my whole website which has been taking me way more time than I expected.And I am starting the 30 paintings in 30 days challenge, hosted by Leslie Saeta. Plein Air painting, which is the 1st in the 30 […]
Helga is our current model for the Monday long pose at the “Pushing Paint” life drawing group. Here is a step by step process of painting Helga. Helga 16″ x 12″ oil on board
I have joined a figure drawing and painting group, Best thing I’ve done since, well, since I did the 30 in 30 challenge! Ha! But, anyway, I have been having a lot of fun. We meet every Saturday morning for drawing from life, we have 1-2-5-10-20 minute sessions. And then on Mondays we hire the […]
It’s weekend again! Yay! That means I was able to coax my son into sitting for me. They are such good kids… Here is my 13 year old son “Himanshu”, being so patient. 🙂 The drawing First color Notes And the finish Himanshu -2 9″ x 12″ oil on panel We had to run out […]
I was out paitnting early this morning after dropping the kids off at school. Partly cloudy and beautiful! Here is the finished painting: Glassford Hill 12″ x 12″ oil on panel Oh and even though I was at least a mile away from my yesterday’s painting location, the same Coyote came by to say Hello!
Hiked out behind Willow Lake today again looking for inspiration. Soon as I was out of the rocks, facing towards the lake, I had this view. Dropped the painting gear right there and started painting. First Block in: And here is where it’s at… It’s definitely not a finish… But far as it went: Boulders […]
My 11 year old daughter Kiki sat so patiently for me today. Can’t wait for next weekend, I have 2 more kids that I can paint! This was a lot of fun. After my last few disappointments, I found myself smiling the whole time painting this. Doing portraits is one of my favorite things, for […]
I wiped down two paintings the other day…one after the other. One I hiked out for 1.5 miles lugging all my paint gear. Did a painting, but hated it so much that I wiped it fown and packed up and left. Then I did a nocturne, which I wiped out too…. Today I went back […]
Little Granite peak at 2 pm this time. The weather was beautiful and clear and warm. Only a limited of these left this year. Winter is approaching fast. And here is the painting: Little Granite Peak – 2pm fall clear sunny day I need to take a better picture… 😛
So this is the huge granite mountain that stands grandly close to our house. I have done several paintings of it in several different moods. This is not the same as the Little Granite Peak that I have been doing the day series of. It has been cold, windy, rain, and today we even had […]