Month: December 2015

I was running out of gas with the cows and saw this orange at our local grocery store. The orange color on this was so intense that I had a hard time mixing a color that was accurate.

Here is the last of the cows for the year. These were so fun to paint and I’ll be revisiting them in 2016!

Mixing it up a bit, here are two cows in a field. These guys were so much fun to paint and I’m loving the warm and cool grays when painting these cows.

I wanted to revisit No. 320 from earlier in the year and redeem that awful painting. This one is just a little bit better. I’m gonna be posting daily through the end of the year to hit 100.

Here’s the last painting I did during my workshop with James Richards. I felt a little goofy painting something like this during an event like that, but my daughter had requested a painting of “bunny” and I wanted it to be a good one. As with the others, James helped me see the colors that I did not pick-up on and made it better in so many ways.

This painting takes me back to No. 18 from way back in 2010. We’ve moved on from baby shoes, but all I can still see is her growing up way too fast. I’m glad we’ll have this one as a record of these days.

I’ve know for a while about “lost” edges but always get wound up when I’m painting and want things to be crisp and clear. I really tried hard to let the right side of the pomegranate disappear and have that line be more invisible.

Compared to No. 195 from a while back you can see how that works (I think) a lot better. Carol Marine talks in her book about objects looking “cut out” and stuck on with beginner painters.