Art in My World

This picture is an exercise in painting a French Harbor Scene. This group of painters has a challenge each month set out by Richard Robinson of the Complete Artist Website.  Several months ago, after cleaning out my office and trying to find room for all the paintings I had accumulated, I ordered a large roll of canvas to cut up and paint on instead of buying panels. I enjoyed painting on this canvas for the first time and I love the fact that, unless I want to frame it, it lies flat taking up little space.  It was a nice surface, so less expensive, portable...win, win. Painting this scene was fun too, following along with the video and learning...

It has been a very busy summer, but unfortunately not with much painting practice. As my life settles down, just a little, I am finding new times to fit in a little painting. Life never takes paths that you would expect, there are always curves and bumps and detours, but thankfully, you adjust, find new paths, and move forward. I hope to do that with my painting in the next few weeks...I hope to move forward with brush in hand.  In the painting above, a subject I hope to revisit, because there is much to explore, not only in re-adjusting the color, but in capturing the glow in the water, is a first attempt at some fall inspiration. This picture is a snippet of what is out my mom's back door in the month of November. I little swampy at times and a little rough and choppy at others, but the colors keep calling me back. One Fall I captured this scene all so beautiful in its bronze glory, but alas, I lost those pictures in a computer crash. It is the bane of the computer age, no n