Oil & Canvas

Tuesday, February 4, 2020

New Bathing suit sketch

So, I've taken my first bathing suit sketch to the next level....working it out in acrylics. I like the suit but am unsure of the fish. Any thoughts on this are welcome.

Friday, January 31, 2020

Preparing to Paint by Creating Color Charts

I'm getting ready to start a new series of Whimsical bathing suit paintings for the spring. My first step is to prepare several sketches and ideas and then list the paintings I intend to do. Next I decide on color schemes and finally sizes. I find it easier to have a color chart in front of me when choosing colors, so, here it is. Can't wait to apply the colors to my sketches. Look for a new series of Whimsical Vintage Bathing suits this spring!

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

The Gift of Art- Holiday Painting Swap

For the past 3 years it has been a pleasure to host the holiday painting swap for my Painting Challenge Group, The Mavens. Each artist paints a 6x6 painting and we pick names from a hat to see which artist's painting we will be taking home. Here are the artists and their gifts.

Shelley O'Brien holding a Lauren Falls

Deb Corbett holding a Marylou Waterman

Lisa Tiemann holding a Jeana McNeil

Lauren Falls holding a Deb Corbett

Marylou Waterman holding an Ellen Rolli

Jeana McNeil holding a Shelley O'Brien

Rosalie Sadowski holding a Nancy Roll

Nancy Roll holding a Sue Dragoo Lembo

Sam holding a Lisa Tiemann

Ellen Rolli holding a Rosalie Sadowski

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Negative space painting

I am still at a bit of an impasse with my usual work so I'm continuing to re-work older paintings. I started this painting as an experiment with acrylics and have finally taken it to the end. My goal was to find familiar shapes within the abstract background and carve them out by painting the negative space white. Can't wait to try this again.

Thursday, October 31, 2019

Never become too attached to a painting

Lately I have been reworking paintings that just never quite felt right to me. It's a great feeling to be able to paint over something and give it a new life....and you learn so much along the way. Once again, I have reworked this painting from an older post. The finish is reworked in palette knife.

Thought a white background would make everything stand out...and it did.

Decided to add the watermelon because I loved the color and it pointed to the flowers.

Background felt cold so changed the color of both background and table. I still felt that everything was too tight, too perfect so......

I worked with a palette knife to start taking away. I wanted to say more without the tight detail. It was an experiment and the jury is still out but I can't wait to rework more paintings. Also, keep in mind the glare on the wet paint does not do the painting justice.