This week I met several mural team members at The Wall to discuss our options in dealing with our mechanical snags. We formulated a plan, and after they do what they have to do, I’ll be back on the wall. While at the wall, I did a bit of sketching because I was there and […]
The Painting Factory continues to produce
I have decided that there are 3 kinds of sky colors applicable to my painting: Photography blue – can be washed out, greyish blue or fakey overdone blue Real blue, so frighteningly blue that no one would believe it in a painting Believable painting blue that most painters just fall back on – default […]
Drawing again!
One more week in the studio due to technical difficulties with the mural. The Mural Team will sort it out, and I should be back on the wall next week. Meanwhile, back at the studio, I am working on this large drawing of a beautiful back yard on the river. It is taking a pile […]
Day Eleven on the Mural
After a very productive week in the studio, I returned to the wall today and was greeted by this sight: This is Channel 26’s Great Day camera man and reporter Clayton Clark. Clayton did a fake-out while I was unloading my supplies. He wore a little thingie in his ear so the folks […]
Nice place to escape the heat
Mineral King Morning, 11×14″, oil on wrapped canvas, $175
Life at the Painting Factory
Didn’t want you all to think all I do is stand before an easel – I DO have a life. Sort of. Okay, maybe it is more of a Cat Disorder, but it is MY Cat Disorder and I am quite content with this state (even though I know I can’t just quit anytime I […]
Dante, Finished?
(the weirdness around his nose is the reflection in the wet paint)
I am a one woman painting factory
One might think that after painting about 80 pieces of citrus, one might tire of the subject. One would be wrong. The rough early stages no longer fill me with dread and worry that this will be the painting on which my career croaks. These are for a special purpose and have a bit […]
Dante, Improved
Here is Dante again after several hours. The proportions got reworked a bit, the background darkened, and more paint added all over. The eye on the right is a little weird, but the paint is too wet to respond to any commands from a brush!
Dante
This is a commissioned piece in progress of a magnificent German Shepherd. The customer is unable to see my emailed photos, so I am showing it to him in this fashion. You all can peek over our shoulders – we don’t mind!