There is a Season

8"x8" original oil

 II needed to do this painting.  I needed to loosen up and go a bit abstract and this painting accomplished that for me.  What I learned from this (I borrowed that from Jo Mackenzie, an artist I greatly admire) is that cobalt blue and alizarin crimson make a lovely purplish-gray....the color of today.  There is a big story that goes with this cat.  I will leave it at that!

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30-30 #21

2"x4.5"

This also is from a reference photo by Dale Waack.  It was hard to paint this mighty bird with enough detail and energy to suggest its magnificence and strength, but I had fun trying and also to make it worthy of copying the photo...like adding enough color to the water to make it interesting.

30-30 #20

This painting is from a reference photo by Dale Waack, who is a wonderful wildlife photographer.  It is a red winged black bird, one of my personal favorites because of the brilliant flashes of color they have on their wings.

First Time

10"x12"  oil

My good friend from high school, Karen Thomas, graciously gave me permission to paint from  a photo of her grandkids.  I lived down the street from Karen for a few years when we were younger and we remained friends throughout high school.  Karen has one of those lovely stories about marrying her high school sweetheart and they have raised a lovely family together.  I titled this "First Time" because it is the first time I have ever drawn or painted a deer and of course because it tells the story for the kids getting to feed the deer.  The photo captured that magic moment and I hope my painting brings it to life.

Raven

9"x12" oil

Several weeks ago there was a challenge to paint a raven on Daily Paint Works.  I am a bit late with it, but I finally got around to it.  It seems like everyone eventually paints a raven or a crow.  I like it because of the dramatic high contrast design.  I used lots of different dark colors to get depth in the feathers.  I also did an exercise mixing up greens from my blues and yellows for my color chart book and decided to make an abstract background with the colors.  I painted the background first then the bird.  I am so glad I did this exercise because I discovered some really cool ways of making green in the process.  This is a bit larger than usual and is on canvas rather than a gesso panel.

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Attitude

16"x20" acrylic

I am back from traveling and ready to paint!  This is a demo for a beginners class at the Chaffee Art Center.   Everyone had a good time and some really nice paintings came out of it.  I focused on creating the design using geometric shapes and how to create varying brushwork.  When I do these demos I don't feel like I am painting subject matter that is most exciting to me, rather I try and choose a few things that offer teachable moments and subjects that are interesting and simple enough to not be intimidating.  I am still refining how I do this; the learning curve for me seems to be infinite!  On another note, I went to Washington, D.C., a city of abundant free museums and excellent artwork!

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Rooster

16"x20" acrylic

This is a painting I did in planning for the class I am teaching June 12 at the Chaffee Art Center.  I went pretty abstract with the front lower and right sides, with the suggestion of foliage.  I planned it out mathematically first which was different and fun.  Click here for the demo slideshow.

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Gaia 6"x6" acrylic

This was a commission.  Isn't she cute?  I love her Mardi Gras bandana!
SOLD

Lufty 17.5"x17.5" acrylic

This is larger than many of the paintings I have done recently.  It was fun to paint big and loose.  I like the background which I did a little differently.  This is a commission.  SOLD

Rufus 6"x6" oil

I didn't make many changes to this one...a little more color and a few value changes...it looks more like Rufus. NFS

Rufus oil 6"x6"

This was a fun value study because I was able to stay really loose with my brushwork.  I used Transparent red medium, white and indigo on this one.  I am going to go back in and change the colors and values a little, but I wanted to try and stick with 3 values for this, but not have it look like puzzle pieces.
NFS

Rusty 17.5"x17.5" animal oil sold #375

This was a commission and the folks who bought it teared up when they saw it....what a wonderful feeling.  I have been really missing painting and need to rearrange my life so I can do it daily if possible.  Lisa Daria is over 900 on daily paintings...having painted at least one painting every single day for the last 900 or so days....mind boggling!

SOLD

Jackson 1 oil 6"x6" animal portrait sold #367

This was a commission from a long-lost friend.  So was the last post of Toby.  They are adorable grand-dogs and were really fun to paint.
SOLD

Toby 1 oil 6"x6" animal portrait #366

This was fun to paint.  I will probably be doing more of him so I called it Toby 1.
SOLD