current project
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Progress of the Water Lilies painting
I haven’t been reporting on my Water Lilies painting because it looked so rough. So, the only post I’ve written about it is the one about the process of gold leafing the canvas. This is in many ways an experimental painting for me, as I have only really done straight oil painting. As is the…
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The beginnings of two paintings
I am working on two paintings now. One in art class and one at home in my little studio. The one in art class is an African landscape that is mostly sky. My instructor told me she thought I should have two paintings going at the same time in class, so although I had already…
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My Luke painting gets eyes and nose
After painting hair for weeks and weeks, I know I am finally getting toward the finish of my painting of my dog. That’s because I painted the first coat of his eyes and nose. I still have to paint highlights on the eyes after they dry, and the nose is just getting started. I have…
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Evolution of a painting
I am still working on the painting from my class in January with Tom Wheeler, a copy of one of his paintings of the East Fork of the Lewis River. I am a slow painter, so although some people in the class finished their paintings in the two sessions, I had to take mine home…
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State of My Current Project
A guy I met at the last art fair suggested I paint smaller paintings so I can get them done quicker and sell them for less. All of my paintings are 16 x 20 or 18 x 24, but the one I am working on now is 11 x 14, just by coincidence, since I…
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What I’m working on at home
I haven’t talked about what I’m working on at home in my new studio. To some people this painting might look familiar, because I am still in progress with the painting I started in Tom Williams’ class on painting rocks in water (back last January). Last week at Art Chat two people (my sister being…
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Progress of the Pansies painting
I’m afraid my photo of my current painting is a poor one, with too much glare. So far, I have just shown the drawing for this painting, which also looked like a lot of nothing. In this case, the glare on the painting from the overhead lights makes the blacks wash out. Most of this…
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A finished painting
On Wednesday, right at the end of class, I finished my cherries and berries painting. That day, I worked on putting deeper shadows on the light-colored cherries. It’s difficult to take a photo of a painting on an easel, because it’s slanted. I thought I had taken a pretty good one, but I see now…
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What I’m working on now
I am a very slow painter, and I only work in art class, as otherwise I’d have a dog nose knocking my brush and dog hair stuck in my paint. I’ve been working on this painting since at least June, which was when I took the first photo of the underpainting (but it was developed…
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