29 Faces in September started yesterday. So today, I’m showing you my first two faces. One is a little sketch I did and the other I painted so it would qualify for Thirty Paintings in 30 Days. First the Sketch and now the painting for Day 2 of Thirty Paintings in 30 Days My […]
So far, so good! I’m ten for ten! I am, however, a little behind in my 29 Faces, so today’s painting, I knew had to be a face. I used another advertising magnet as my canvas. As before, I applied a layer of gesso first and then got out my acrylics and painted this cute […]
Imagine Possibility Mixed Media using watercolor, watercolor pencils, acrylic and ink on 4×6 140 lb cold press watercolor paper. (the photograph doesn’t do it justice.. it’s so much prettier with so many more layers of color and shading than you can see here) Thirty Paintings in 30 Days – Day 6
For this painting I decided to try simply putting some watercolors on to the paper and see what I saw in the dried paint, similar to the journal pages I showed you here: What The Paint Splatters Revealed To start, I wet the paper and added blue and a peachy red that I mixed. I […]
I have two girls for you today. The first is a my Day Three painting for Thirty Paintings in 30 Days, and my second for 29 Faces in September 2014. I did this with acrylics and Pitt pens for the black details. I don’t know who she is or where she came from but I […]
Thirty? Thirty. Three, Zero. 30 in thirty days. This really is a challenge, especially for someone as new to painting as I am. I got to thinking… after thirty paintings, in thirty days, I won’t be so new. I’ll be more practiced and all because I decided to jump in with both feet and take […]