Sunday, October 30, 2011
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
"With Bells On" I loved painting this donkey, and I learned so much painting it. I changed the blanket several times until I found the colour it is now. I just could not get it to look right. That is one of the things I love about oils, the ability to keep working on something and changing it until it is just right.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Calm Before The Storm. I keep forgetting to add the name of my paintings. This painting sold at the show in Kimberly in January. I had such fun with the sky and the water in this painting. I was drawn to the stormy sky in the photograph, and the mystery of it all. I wonder who is on the boat and what it is carrying?
Saturday, October 22, 2011
This is a portrait in pastels that I did at the one and only pastel workshop I have ever taken. I think it was my first portrait as well. I had a lot of help from the instructor Susan Woolgar, and I loved working with pastels, but have not returned to it again since the workshop. I have no idea why, just no opportunity to work with someone and learn more about the medium I think. Maybe I will dig them out again.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Today October 20th 2011 and I am starting to blog on my art blog. Thank you Sandra H for your help this morning. I now can move forward with the blog. I am going to start by posting one of my earlier paintings everyday. Here goes. This is one of my favorite paintings. The original is the Girl with the Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer. I painted a copy of it in 2008 after I returned from spending two months in Holland with my daughter and her family, and visiting the painting often at Mauritshuis, in The Hague.
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