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Early wrap to this years challenge
Although this challenge is still ongoing, I am quite done for this year. I managed to complete 17 paintings since it began, but you see a surprise early arrival had me packing up my bags and flying off to Calgary! My beautiful new grandson Henry was born a few weeks early! And so I said to heck with the challenge and hopped on the first available flight. And I do have a few more on the easel waiting for my return. This is the fifth time that I have participated in a 30 Day Challenge. You can see my previous efforts here. With each challenge I like to have a…
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Week 3 of the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge
I have learned so much with this challenge. It was not enough to commit to a painting a day – I felt the need to add a layer of complexity by adding in a medium that I feel that I am just beginning to understand. I am an oil painter that needs to allow for dry time for glazing. Alla prima is really maybe not my thing – but feel i have been successful with my attempt. Day 11 – Lunch on the Bar The photo does not do this painting justine. The feathers on the bird are quire detailed. What I am finding is that it is difficult to…
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Week 2 of the 30 Day Challenge
Still keeping up with the challenge having completed 11 paintings in 11 days I am having so much fun with all of these. Mussel shells and corvids are some of my long time favourite things to paint. I think I may have a few more ravens in my system. Thinking I am going to venture into watercolours this coming week. Day 6 – Fundy Blues I It almost always comes back to mussel shells for me. I have previously painted them as poured watercolours in a full sheet format. Three different versions. And honestly, there were three of my all time favourite poured painting. And I have painted them…
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Here we go again for the 4th time
I joined the 30 Paintings in 30 Day Challenge once again It is actually my fourth time participating. I sort of tell myself when ever I commit to it – it is a huge commitment and the other larger pieces I am working on get neglected for awhile. But the sense of accomplishment that I get from doing it is well worth the effort. So far… So far all of these are oil on panels. The square ones are on cradled panel, the 10 x 8″ are on flat panel and will require frames. I am really unsure how long I will stay with the oils as I prefer to…
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On Watch
It is that time of year when I feel like I disappear. I have secret commissions that I am working on and of course, am unable to share. I can share my most recent acrylic painting of a crow – On Watch From how do I do this – to I got this When exploring in Rockwood Park in Saint John, NB last year, I happened upon this crow perched on a rock framed by two tree trunks. I knew instantly that I planned on painting this scene. I took a few reference photos… until my subject flew away. Only the tree trunks that drew me in felt like brackets…
