Still working on the market lady

I managed to get a lot done on it today, but still have a ways to go. I hope to have it done by next week.

Gathering work for a show

Tomorrow I have about sixteen works that are going in the Hattiesburg Country Club. I know the picture is blurry, sorry about that, I took it with my phone. These can be viewed on the website. I believe that all but one are laying in the floor in this shot.I've waited until the last minute to get this done. I didn't think it would be so time consuming. I've had to frame three pictures and wire  about eight this afternoon. It's not much fun to do that or the business side of art.
Wish me luck :)

Slow Progress

I only managed to block in a little color. My husband is out of town, and I'm trying to get abiout 16 paintings ready to show at the Hattiesburg Country Club. Tomorrow, with an appt. for myself, dental appt. for my daughter, and a half day at their school, and church activities, I'll probably have little time to paint again. If I can manage an hour I'll be happy.

A DR Graveyard

I don't have much experience with collage but thought I'd try it with this picture my husband brought back from his trip to Haiti. I may paint this in the future but I wanted to play around with what I tried to learn in Paula Payne's workshop. This is definitely not finished. I'm just at a stopping point and not quite sure where to go next. It'll come to me eventually. In the meantime, I have started painting a Hatian woman selling fruits and vegetables.

Miracle, oil 24x30"

 I didn't have much to go by. My husband shot the photo through a car window. I think I might have made her face a little older than it needs to be.

Miracle

It's getting close to dinner and I'm at a stopping point in this painting. The photo is one that Jeff took when he was in Haiti. The Hatian girl has a bag of rice on her head donated by the United States, and the sign behind her has the word "Miracle"  written a couple of times. I decided to name the painting "Miracle" for a couple of reasons other than the fact that it was written on the wall behind her. The fact that people are bringing them food may seem like a miracle to some of them, Jeff's stories of their faith in God, even after the devistating earthquake, was reason enough to name the painting miracle.

I hope to finish this tomorrow. I still have her eyes, dress, and detail work left to do. For the most part I am using one large brush to keep the look painterly and doing a lot of mixing on the canvas, rather than the palette.

More volunteer work - Day 3

I'm done!!!! I'll post pics of them with the drumline when I can.

More volunteer work - Day 2

Starting to look more like an old TV.

More volunteer work

Now that my husband is back from Haiti, I can get back to painting.This weeks painting is going to consist of more volunteer work for the Petal indoor drumline. They are going to be nine 6'x5' retro tv's with static on the screen. Today I blocked in the red of the tv's, tomorrow will be the static, knobs, speaker on the front, and the black band that holds the glass in, as well as the reflections.

This week is way too busy to paint.

I've slipped on the daily painting this week with my husband being gone. I have three kids, and he is off with a mission group helping in Haiti, so my painting time is limited. Last night the Mississippi Art Association had a reception for the Mississippi Art Colony Travel Show. I had a painting called "Ladies First" that was accepted into that travel show.

I did manage to paint a little today using the technique that I learned in the workshop this past weekend. It's not done, but I'll post it anyways. I'll get back to work on it tonight after I take my daughter out for her birthday dinner.

Day 2 at Paula Payne's workshop

Pictures from Paula Payne's workshop

Today I attended Paula Payne's workshop using transparant acrylics. I wish that the layers of paint came across in the pictures as they do when viewed in person.

 The first one I did was just figurative. Other than the pose I didn't have any direction. I was just building layers and scrubbing down other layers of the paint. It's completely different to how I normally paint and that made it so much more fun. The second picture is of my dogs. I had this photo on my phone. When I'm painting they sit at the window, with their chins on the ledge, waiting on the school bus to come home. It was decided to make the window larger and abstract it to frame their heads.

Blocking in color on mugs

This week's painting

This is only an underpainting.  It's going to be a still life of my favorite coffee mugs created by Byron Myrick. I never owned a coffee mug that was made by hand. I have to say, that I plan on owning nothing but that in the near future.

Morning Catch, Pastel 16x8"

Today is another one of those too busy and too tired to paint days. However, it was suggested I do a fishing on a lake type of pic and here it is. It's just a quick sketch. Hope you like it Brandon, thanks for the suggestion.

Jeanna the Queen, oil 20x16"

Jeanna never ceases to crack me up. She didn't have sunscreen when we were plein air painting BUT she did have a red sheet. Go figure. She looked as though she should have a crown on her head.
She has joined me with this daily painting thing, I've been doing, about a week after I started. The purpose was to paint daily, not to complete paintings within a day. Sometimes they come off the brush easier than others. I stayed real painterly with this one and it went quickly. This painting is payback because she painted me not too long ago as one of her daily paintings.