Summer

In the mood to paint some summer style watercolors!  Playing around with popsicle paintings in watercolor.



Cherry Orange Popsicles, Watercolor, 8x10

Watercolors

Sweetpeas, Watercolor 8x10

 

 

I've been having fun with some small watercolors.  It's a nice change of pace to mix in with oil painting.  Something that I can work on much more easily during nap time, since they dry so fast.  And clean-up is about 100x easier!  So many things are growing in my garden right now that I started painting them.  Like these radishes,

 

 

Radishes, Watercolor 8x10

 

 

Then I tried a few with writing...little inspirational watercolors.

 

 

Watercolor field, crops in rows.

 

 

It's lots of fun so I put some up on ArtFire.com under the shop name FourGreenAcres.  It's nice to have another venue besides Etsy, and for now I think I'll keep oils on etsy and watercolors on ArtFire.  Even have a few sales there already!  I'm interested in any opinions of the different online art selling venues. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Rock Shelf, Georgian Bay

Rock Shelf, oil painting, 16x20"

Work in Progress

Oil Painting, Rocks, 16x20"

Working away, changing my studio lighting around, trying to get better pictures that show some brushwork.  Work in progress of Geogian Bay

Pickled Hot Pepper Painting

Picled Hot Peppers, Oil on Panel, 8x10"

Pretty much done, might go back into the highlights a bit.  I will definitely need to take a better picture if the December sun ever comes out again!  Impossible not to get the glare on the background when you scan a painting.  Now I will let my husband open this jar of peppers that my Aunt and Uncle gave us months ago.  It was just so pretty I had to paint it first.

Cherry Sketch

Some Sketching

I told myself that if I don't have time to paint on any particular day, I have to at least do a quick drawing.  All of the figure poses are courtesy of the awesome website http://artists.pixelovely.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/ that sets up the poses like you are at a life drawing class.