Export to PDF | Export to DOCI finished my sunrise! This has been a very stretching landscape project to work on. Mostly because the lighting is so different in the early morning compared to the mid-day skies that I normally paint. The inner struggle I’ve had all week was this: “Do I paint what’s shown […]
Export to PDF | Export to DOCYesterday I talked about having to make a conscious effort to ignore the negative voices in my head while working on a commission. Well then on this particular day of painting, I had a voice in my head that I decided NOT to ignore. The voice of my husband. […]
Export to PDF | Export to DOCEvery artist I’ve ever talked to agrees. It’s so much harder to paint a commissioned piece than just a painting you feel like doing as part of your body of work. The voice of the client is always lurking in the back of your head, saying “that is NOT […]
Export to PDF | Export to DOCMy assignment for last week was to paint the second of three oil paintings I have been commissioned to do. In the previous week I completed “milk can” and then this past week I completed “intercoastal sunrise.” Two paintings down, one more to go! All three of these paintings […]
Export to PDF | Export to DOCIt’s the final day of painting “milk can.” I was hoping to finish up within an hour so that I could move onto starting my next painting. Unfortunately, my estimating skills are shamefully inaccurate. Either that, or I’m just getting pickier with my standards. (I do actually think the […]
Export to PDF | Export to DOCToday the FUN begins. I finally get to paint the BLUE MILK CAN. The part I’ve been waiting for all week! Here’s my progress on this fourth day of working on the oil painting called “milk can!”
Export to PDF | Export to DOCI’m on the third day of my painting called “milk can.” Here’s the photos of what I worked on today… Is anyone else crazy enough to photograph their daily work? E-mail me hour-by-hour photos of your “work” — whatever that may be — and I’ll post the most interesting […]
Export to PDF | Export to DOCHere’s photos of my second day of progress working on the commissioned painting called “milk can.”
Export to PDF | Export to DOCSummer Vacation is over in Greenville South Carolina. That means my son is back in school and I’m back in my Studio! Last week I was hard at work starting the first of three commissioned paintings for a collector of mine. This series is actually inspired by three photos […]
Export to PDF | Export to DOCToday is the first day of school! So I am BACK in my studio for the fall. Can you feel my excitement??? It helps that my son has been counting the hours until he returns to school and begins second grade, so I have no guilt in feeling my […]
