Working away at my latest painting and will have it up soon! Just a few more touches.
Looking forward to starting another atmospheric Blue Ridge painting. I like to paint in many different directions but the mountains of Southwest Virginia and the Blue Ridge are my favorite selections for subject matter and the hardest paintings I do.
The interaction of warm and cool colors is so difficult to achieve without them blending to grey but I have learned so much about how to get that effect so it is more and more a pleasing experience.
Cheers on a Friday! Please check out my latest Youtube above!Evening Light from Sharp Top Original 12″ x 9″ Oil Pastel painting $246
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Wow! I discovered a strange way to save paint on my palette. A week ago I accidentally spilled a little mineral spirits into my cadmium red light and it has not dried up at all and I have been able to use it rather than replace it with fresh paint.
That is so weird! I could see linseed oil doing that but not mineral spirits. Sometimes I put out more paint than I need. It is always so hard to know how much of the painting I am going to change and sometimes I end up just adding a few dabs here and there.
Any oil painters that are reading this know how expensive good oil paint is. My paintings cost a lot to make and I am always glad to find ways to keep from wasting paint.
Anyway, just about done with my latest and I am pleased with it! Just have to be careful not to over think it and wreck it.
Cheers on a Monday! Please check out my latest Youtube above!Mid-Spring on The New River Original 34″ x 23″ Oil Pastel painting $1534
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So happy with my latest painting! Now is the hard part. Do I work in a few areas that are not quite what I wanted or do I go all out with another layer for even more complexity? Always a touch decision and I need to get another idea for my Youtube series.
So busy! I may stop blogging so much as I work on other avenues of exposure. Not sure about that yet but I need to carve out more time in the day.
If you haven’t checked out my latest Youtube above, please do!
Wildflower Magic Original Oil painting SOLD
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Yea! Clyde got his vaccine shot today! I am still waiting on an opening but I am hopeful it will be soon and I am so excited about my latest landscape.
The light is not right now but I will get to it tomorrow. I can’t explain why I am so happy with it. It isn’t finished so it could take another nose dive off a studio cliff but I don’t think that will happen. Love to paint! Live to paint!
Cheers on a cold Tuesday! Please check out my latest video above. This one is on watercolor technique.
Wildflower Magic Original Oil painting SOLD
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We don’t eat a lot of sausage since it has so much fat in it. I couldn’t find the kind I usually get for spaghetti so I got some turkey sausage. I thought it would be nice to try it out. Well, as I was cooking it I went down the hall to give a comment on it to Clyde.
Guess what this sausage needs?
Sausage?
You read my mind. There are bumpy things in the sauce but I just taste sauce. Oh well, it is better for you than pork sausage.
So is sea weed but I don’t want that in my spaghetti.
Understood. No more turkey sausage.
Be sure to check out originals on Etsy! This link will take you to a popular Church painting!
My latest painting took a nose dive yesterday and I wasn’t sure how to approach it today. So I just painted and didn’t think about what I was trying to achieve this time and then it took off!
As usual, they only seem to work out when I don’t exactly know how I got to the successful stage.
Looking forward to the next session! Joyful anticipation is always so much better than the frustration that goes along with the job.
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
460 Original 14″ x 11″ Oil painting $313
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