Monday, July 27, 2009

"Bend in the River'



I'm still painting from photographs......and still using leftover paint from the recent commission I posted (Sat)!! I guess the colors I have on my palette plus being in the water/reflection mindset made me choose this scene of a spot on the Oconee River.

'Little River'



Bill corrected me about yesterday's painting. It's not a creek....it's actually 'Little River' so I guess I'll have to officially change the name of the painting!

Saturday, July 25, 2009

"Leftovers!"....



Here's my painting from today.....it wasn't painted plein air but rather from an old photograph of a creek here in Columbia County. I'll have to ask Bill the name of the creek.....I honestly don't know so I'm just calling it 'Shady Creek' til I know for sure!

An art instructor I had some time back made a suggestion that when you finish a painting, rather than waste the paint on your palette.....start a new painting that calls for those colors. That's what I did here.....I'd finished up the painting of the pond (below) and used the 'leftovers' to do this one! (and I still have paint leftover!!)

Getting back to business!



After taking a week off from painting to spend time with my other interest - - music - - I'm back in the studio. Up until today I've not gotten back to my 'daily paintings' and the reason being, I was commissioned to do a painting that had to be completed fairly quickly so that's where all my efforts have been directed this week......The finished painting is pictured above. But today I managed to get a small painting done.....I'll put the image in another post........

Sunday, July 5, 2009

The Results




A few weeks back I posted a painting of my husband, Bill, hoeing his newly planted Silver Queen Corn........Well here's the result!

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Happy July 4th!! - 'Red White and Blue...sort of!'




Here's the last post for the day! I'm still not completely caught up but I'm getting there - - I'll post the rest of the collages tomorrow!

Happy Independence Day!

Playing Catch Up - 'Perfect!'




Bill's tomatoes are ripening up......This one was too perfect to slice right away!

Playing Catch Up - 'In The Pits'



Another oil on paper.....

Playing Catch Up - 'Bananna Peppers'



Here's another of my oil on paper daily paintings.....(see earlier post)

Playing Catch Up - 'Hydrangeas'




The camera is fixed now so I'm playing 'catch up'...photographing & posting the paintings I've completed since I returned home. I also need to re-photograph and post the rest of the collages I did at Cill Rialaig....

The first painting is one of a few hydrangeas I painted on June 23rd. It's oil on paper. While painting with oil on paper is not new to me, I saw the work of artist Valerie Lane while I was in Ireland, and it rekindled my interest in working on paper...thanks Valerie! I have LOTS of watercolor paper and as I seldom work in watercolor these days I decided it would be sensible to give it a try .....these hydrangeas are the first and I must say, I've really enjoyed using oils in this way!