Among the many things I love about being an artist is the joy I take in colors. Whether they’re the vibrant shades of spring and autumn, or the subtle greys of winter and the sizzling whites of summer… I love color! This morning, the skies were heavy with rain. The colors were similar to yesterday’s…
There was no actual sunrise this morning. Not that I could see, anyway. I wondered if my neighbor, Lesley, was thinking, “There’s no way she’s painting a sunrise this morning.” But… I did! Okay, I’m calling it a “snowrise” because it’s not sunny at all. The could cover is heavy, and as soon as I…
My White Mountains painting is still in progress. Every time I work on it, it energizes me. However, I’m not sure if yesterday’s changes will be evident in these photos. The differences are subtle. However, those small changes are making a big difference in the emotional content of the painting. At left is how the…
Yesterday, I started painting sunrises again. They’re simply oil sketches… nothing formal or fancy. Yesterday’s is on the left, and described in more detail at A New Morning. Generally, I grab whatever smallish, blank canvas is nearby. Today, as yesterday, that’s a 10″ x 14″ canvas board. Technically, these paintings aren’t quite en plein air…
Yesterday, I found a quotation that made me feel much better: “I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!”…
This painting has a quirky history. It began when a commission wasn’t going well. When the commissioned painting was completed, a lot of paint remained on my palette. Most of it was blue. So, I took another in-progress painting off the wall – one that needed a lot more blue – and I worked on…