Day 5 - 30 Paintings in 30 Days

T-Bone

5" x 7"

Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

After three days of sheep I came back to cows! I know it sounds crazy but it is really a good learning experience to paint the same subject matter over again. I have started to pick up on small things about shapes of eyes and heads, nostrils you know really important things in life! I hope you enjoy today's effort. Thanks for looking!

30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge

Lucy

Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

8" x 8"

SOLD

So this is the first day of the 30 paintings in 30 days! I actually painted this one yesterday, and today I am painting a sheep. Looks like I am starting off with a farm animal theme. I actually want to paint from my photos from this past year, it just so happens the first 2 were farm animals! This sweet cow was grazing in a pasture as I was driving by so I just pulled over and she posed for me.  I thought the solid white would be really hard and I was a little afraid of it but it went better than I expected. I may paint her again for more practice. Happy New Year everyone! She sold quickly on Facebook yesterday, hooray!

Daisy

Daisy

Oil on gallery wrapped canvas

20"x 20"

This is a sweet cow I met on a trip. I stopped to take her photo and she just kept posing for all my pictures! This just endeared her to me all the more. It was a really cold morning and there was ice on the trees and I could see her breath but she just stood like we were having a photo shoot! I hope you enjoy this piece!

Completed Landscape Painting

36 x 48 oil on canvas

In the Hollow

If you thought I fell off the face of the earth, well I almost did! Shortly after the workshop I came down with the creepy crawly crud and was sick for 2 whole weeks! I didn't get to paint at all because I felt so bad. But I am back!!! I decided to call this one done even though I could fool with it forever. But overall I am happy with it. Jim Richards was a fabulous teacher and I hope to be able to take another one of this workshops very soon. This one is going to hang in my Dining Room! Hope you enjoy it!

This is my next exciting adventure! My sweet friend Carole Foret and her twin sister Claire Keyser are having a painting workshop in Athens, AL that should be a blast! I always love Carole's events and am looking so forward to it. I would love for some of my friends to join in the fun! 

Jim Richards Workshop

This is Jim's Pallette, and yes he only uses 4 colors! I freaked out at first but after he demonstrated what he could accomplish with these 4 colors it actually makes things easier and the color harmony he achieves is amazing!

Jim working on his demo

Jim's nearly completed scene

My WIP 36 x 48!

This workshop was absolutely amazing! If any of you ever get the chance to take a class from him you should! He is a fantastic teacher and he spends lots of time explaining why he does the things he does. He explained alot about composition and why he placed certain things in his composition and not others. He also taught me alot about color values and color harmony. The biggest challenge for me was working on this huge canvas! It is sooooo big. The fumes in my car on the way home from Atlanta were really strong! I still have some work to do on this so I wasn't super concerned with the picture quality I posted, I know it is cropped poorly but I will post a better picture when the painting is complete. I took this class at "The Art School in Sandy Springs" and it was fabulous! Thanks Donna and Jim!

Cows....Again

Party of Three

11 x 14

Acrylic on Canvas

$50

This past week I went to Carole Foret's Wine and Paint Night where we painted a cow so this inspired me to paint these 3 cows that I have had a picture of for a long time and just never got around to painting them. I just loved the way they were all looking at the camera.  I just love the shapes of cows and they are really fun to paint. These cows all had the same hairdo as if they had bangs! The colors in the pic did not come out exactly right and I tried to adjust it but I haven't quite got the hang of photoshop yet. So, come see it in person if you are interested!!!