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on September 05, 2016

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"Watermelon Lemonade"

8x10, acrylic on canvasboard

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Some newish paintings.

What I’ve been working on in September/October: These are all 12x16 on canvas board. Not my favorite substrate, but I had them for a class I’m taking, so I’m using them up. 1. As of yet, Untitled. This painting is one that I started some time back…and then painted over. For a class I’m waking right now in landscapes I started it again. The subject is an asequia north of Los Poblanos in Albuquerque, where I was supposed to be doing a training run (rather than, say, taking pictures). What I like about it: The left side of the ditch, and the reflections in the water. What I don’t like: The color of the ditch. It’s kind of a sick yellow white; I think I was to make it a big pinker. Or, maybe the shadows need to be bluer 2: Oak creek. This is a view of Oak Creek near Sedona, Az, in the spring. What I like about it: The shadow of the trees on the rapid. This was my teacher’s idea, and he painted them on my canvas. I was taken by surprise, as I don’t normally like peop...

Things I worked on this winter.

Since I have a giant hand-crafted, counter-weight easel in my living room, I really have lots of opportunities to paint now. I was sick a lot after December 1, though. So I didn’t get much done. here’s what I have: A small study on canvas paper that I did near Chacala, Mexico. Sunset was magical there. Each evening I would hoof it down the beach, and point to the menus, and drink mojitos or margaritas and eating whatever it was I had ordered, which may, or may not, be what I expected. Then I would work my way back up the beach, and do a swim at sunset. It was AMAZEBALLS. I painted this using a full box French easel. And then, there was this one. This is on a medium-sized canvas that I stretched during College Painting 1, and I hated the painting that was on it, so I sanded it and gessoed it and did this one. This is not an original composition. My hubby challenged me to copy a work by another artist, and I answered that challenge. I...

I’m in the mind for a seascape.

I LOVE San Fran. It’s damp and chilly even in the summer, which is a nice break from the desert. I was looking through my photos for a possible next reference, and came across this fairly uninspiring one: There’s lots to like about his composition. The horizon isn’t across the center. It has a nice diagonal line. This one went by pretty quickly, actually. The first lay-in looked like this: Fairly close to the reference, but a reference is just a reference. It’s up to the artist to put her own spin on things. So, I added more detail to the distant hills. California hills are pretty smoothly contoured, and of course there’s that golden grass. I also added detail to the sea and the bridge. I worked on the sea a bit more and added some more distant details, like distance waves against the south side of the bridge. The ipad darkened this photo much more than it is. The colors are closer to the photo above this one. I’l...

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