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From Pencil to Paint

20 x 16 inches oil on canvas

To follow up on my last post, thought I would share the first painting from my last sketching session.  I picked the drawing I liked the best, then drew a grid over it to help decide the lay out.

 From that I sectioned off the area I wanted to redraw on my canvas.  Then I did a quick acrylic painting to use as an under painting.  For the under painting I used Matisse back ground acrylics they are matte and have more tooth that regular acrylics.  When the under paint was totally dry (gave it 24 hours), I finished it in oil.  Used Weber water mixable oils starting with brush work then finished with a palette knife for a little more texture. 

 Mary

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Need an Idea

I did not feel like getting the paints out last night, but need to do something!

Sitting on the sofa with my cat, I just picked up a pad and pencil and started drawing.

Each drawing is the same cat, just in a slightly different pose. 

Every time the cat moved I added to the sketch, until I filled the page.

This started as just something to do, but I like one drawing enough to plan a painting around.  So when you have a few minutes, grab a pencil and just start filling a page on a pad.  You never know where your next painting idea will come from. 

Mary

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Second Hand Find

20 x 16 oil on canvas "Last Pear"

Found a wonderful statue at a local shop I just had to get.  It is an amorphous female form that I thought would be interesting to paint.  What I have found interesting, is for how simple a form it is, it is difficult to paint.  I find myself trying to add more information to it than what is really there.  Thought I would share some of the work I have done.

the Satue

quick acrylic painting

quick charcaol

  

Acrylic thought I would add hair, why not?

another acrylic 10 x 8 inches

 












Mary
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Found Things

   
                                 Available at DPWS Auction

     Painting everyday is important, but sometimes it is difficult to do.

Often it is finding time and motivation to paint. I have two suggestions for that.

     First, find a friend to paint with, getting together with another artist will spark enthusiasm, because there is nothing better that bouncing ideas off another painter.

     Next setting up the perfect arrangement is great, but sometimes time simply gets in the way of that.  Face it I can easily spend an hour or more arranging and rearranging stuff.

So don’t be afraid to just paint the first thing you see that looks interesting.  The painting above is an example of that.  I was at my best friends house (a fellow painter), finished the work I had planned to do and had time left.  So I just glanced around the living room and started painting objects I randomly spotted.  The plant vase was on top of a shelf, the bottle and little house were objects in a cabinet.  I guess I just arranged them in my head, for some reason that was easier to do than really moving them physically around.

   Hope that these little ideas will get you going and those brushes moving.

What I looked at to do the painting........

Mary
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WORKING IN 3s

Acrylic on canvas, 14 x 11 inches

     I have been trying to work in series of three this year.

  Most of the time that involves painting a theme three times, each picture different, yet related in subject. This time I decided to paint the same subject 3 times. 

     I put a bundle of Chrysanthemums in a bottle and started painting.

They all started out pretty much alike and only varied toward the end of my painting section.  What I noticed that the flowers were an abundant portion of the paintings. As I finished each one, that changed slightly.  In one I actually shrunk the flowers by pulling in more of the dark back ground color, in another I tried to balance the volume of flowers by adding a pear in at the bottom. The original painting I left as it was.

     Painting is all about learning with each canvas you do, this turned out to be a good learning session, being pleased with each one.   This could be something to try and see what you can discover from it.

14 x 11 acrylic on canvas

6 x 6 on acrylic on panel

                        Available on DPWs

Mary
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