Today was all about the complimentary colors and contrast- purple and yellow and dark against light. Lime and Chiles Watercolor on Paper 6 x 10" $115 | Available Purchase I could picture this in my head- the color of the limes popping out against the dark background and the light falling
After much anticipation on my part, I finally got to paint in oils today. Painting is like riding a bike or getting back on a horse after not having ridden for awhile. I don't know if this describes it correctly. Painting is such a familiar
The real title of today's post should be "A Lesson in Mental Resistance." That's because today's painting did not come easy and I was struggling. I painted 3 paintings and what you see is the third and final one. My own personal form of mental resistance when
Before we take off running one thing that I want to be clear about is my intention behind this painting a day in January. This is now the 3rd or more time that I have done this, in the past I have always done a painting
Do you associate paintings as masculine or feminine? Normally I don't, but this painting was more delicate not only because of the pastel colors, but the color palette had me go lighter on the brushwork and choosing my strokes carefully.Double Espresso8x6"Oil on Linen mounted on Wood©Kelly
Painters have strange habits sometimes. One of those would be saving boxes full of almost used tubes of paint.Digging around in that box for some white, I was miffed by how much white I had in the form of almost used tubes.Then I had the
This still life came together in a snap by arranging and rearranging these simple objects by color. Primaries 6x8" Oil on Wood Sold The voices of painting teachers past rang in my ears today- I could just hear their comments about never painting objects that aren't related, don't make sense
I did expect to paint flowers, just not exactly these. I spent well over an hour setting up a little group of flowers in a vase, arranging and then rearranging.Then when I took a few out and set them aside in a jar, I saw
Rainy, wet and cold. The perfect day to paint something colorful in the studio.I felt the need for another shot at the clementines, I wasn't done with them just yet. So today found me rearranging them (again) in the studio as the rain poured down.Winter's