Portrait of Glenn

This painting is of Glenn overlooking Lake Michigan when we celebrated our anniversary. I call it "Admiring the View". I kept it simpler than most of my paintings.

Sharon Woods Show

In case you didn't have a chance to see Sandy Maudlin's student show at Sharon Woods, click onto her blog site on the side bar. She's posted some pictures from the show. It really was a great one!

Painting Challenge #5

I kind of like this. Same photo reference. Challenge was shape and S composition. It still has all the miskit because it is just a 2-hour painting, and I'm not fast. But I think it has potential.

Painting Challenge #4

I picked "line" this time, and I used the paper that I'd put under my batik to use as a background, and just penned in the flowers and shapes. Needs a little work, but I kind of like it. Maybe need to have some thicker lines. Can't do much to it since it's just the back of some butcher paper, not exactly archival paper.

Painting Challenge effort #3

I did say this is a "warts and all" experiment. I didn't say I actually like all of the pictures.

"Value" was the design element that came out of the hat this time. "Cruciform" was the composition. I tried batik, since that is usually a good way to play with value, but I wasn't happy with the result. I tried putting in some more whites to see if it helps. I finally got stronger value changes, and you can actually find the cruciform.

It has a different look from the other two, though.

Painting Challenge effort #2

This is my second effort, which I took a little more seriously.

I picked "size" out of the hat as my design element. Can you guess the composition? It's radial.

I actually liked this one, so I worked a bit more on it to see if it was a keeper.

Please excuse the poor photo quality. These are just photos (and I hadn't flattened the pictures yet), not scans.

Painting Challenge #1

This was effort #1 with the Painting Challenge.
I pretty much kept the composition in the picture, not very imaginative, but I wanted to be a good girl and get my homework done. I chose "color" as my design element, using visual complements for the background (blue and yellow) and also for the foreground (pink and green).

I wanted to keep this to a 2-hour painting, so it's not really finished. After all, this is a "warts and all" experiment, right?

Painting Challenge

I decided to take Sandy Maudlin's painting challenge (that she got from another artist whose name is on her web site) - to take one photo reference, and each week do a different painting choosing (from a hat) ONE design element (like color, shape, line, value, texture, direction, or size) and ONCE composition (like cruciform, T, scattered, S or Z shape....)

Here is my photo reference. I THOUGHT it would be an easy one.