Playing Around With Photography

I have always loved photography but could never really have a nice camera that takes great close-up photos with a nice zoom on it for wildlife. So I try my hand with what I have and went out to Cannon Beach, Oregon in Febuary. It was beautiful out there the whole week we were there till the last day it started getting alittle chilly. I'm sure thats why this photo "Haystack Rock" turned out to be so colorful. To check it out go to Secret Escapes in the dolphins and shells. I put it on a keepsake box and it turned out really nice!

I am also going to try and reblacate in on canvas in acrylic. I'll be posting my progress soon.

New Arcrylic Painting!

I decided to go back to working in acrylics. It drys so much faster and I don't have to work around the medium so much. It's been quite a while since I've worked in this medium on canvas, it's usually on walls. Here is the painting, "Iris" that I completed in just a few hours. I would enjoy hearing from you and your experience with different mediums. Would love some feedback on it.

Now get your brushes out and keep on painting!

Painting Is Now Completed!

My sailboat painting is now done. It's taken me a couple of months to complete it working on it only a few days a week. I had a lot of fun and learned so much about oils. I plan on using oils again for my next painting. I enjoyed being able to go back over the paint when it was wet to add or mix color into it. I also like to looks of an oil painting. I'll always return to my watercolor and acyrlic too. but this was an interesting project. I hope you all enjoyed it too.

Skipped To Day 5 of Sailboats In Sunset

I decided to skip to day 5 because I felt I wasn't able to get much done on day 4. So as you can see I was able to finish the sky and work a bit on the boats sails in the foreground. There is some folds in the red sailboat that needs attention next week. Hope this inspires you to get out some paper and brushes and have some fun. See you next week with more details in the boats and the sails.

Day 3 Of Sailboat Painting!

I started working on the clouds getting colors of a sunset in. I used yellows, reds, purples, blues and white. I mixed the the reds and yellows to blend into oranges near the bottom for a deep sunset. Next week more sky work and then work on the boats and some detail. Yhee! See you next week.

Day 2 Of Sailboats in the Sunset Painting

I meant to get this out earlier, but I was out with that nasty flu bug that has gripped a lot of people here.

Here I worked on a few of the base colors for the sail boats and water and touched up the sky a bit. Next week I start on the cloud formations. I love sunsets and I wanted a dramatic background for the evening sunset. See you next week. Stay healthy!

Deciding To Try Something New

Finding time to be alone to paint with family coming and going, I reminded myself it's Ok to play a little, so I decided to join an art class and try something new. I had streched a canvas several years ago that I wanted to try water-based oils on. I had bought the oils and everything I needed for it and finally I get to use them!

Each week I'll show what I have done with the painting. I've never painted in this medium before nor have I painted this type of theme. So I hope you enjoy the ride with me and maybe learn some tips from this as well.

This is the day 2 of my painting. Day 1 I sketched and transferred it onto the canvas. I am working from 3 different photographs of sailboats and sunsets. I'll tell you again I am used to painting in watercolor for the most part, so the texture was interesting and I loved how long the paint stayed wet! So for some things I will have to wait till next week to go over a few things without mixing the colors into one another. Well, I hope to see you next week with day 3 of my painting. Goodbye for now.