New Horned something or other... Art

Before I start....ehem...Everyone should take notice of the beautiful and fantabulous Facebook like box I have added (and all by myself, too!) to the blog.  


Moving on...ehehe


This little painting / illustration is part 1 of a series of 4. All of the paintings will be owls with horns (I need a pair of horns for myself, obviously) yet have a more natural appearance about them.  This one is pretty small...about 4.5" x 6" (hope that's accurate).  Yesterday was supposed to be the official finish-it-up-and-show-the-world day for this illustration, so this morning I determined that is was the pure lack of a schedule to blame, or maybe laziness and Sunday blues were the raisons d'être for not uploading. Oh well...I suppose it's better late than never.


Anyway, here it is, the horned owl painting number 1.  I started with a rough sketch, then painted in the watercolor (no acrylic this time) and later inked in all of the details.  For some reason it's lookin' like a large piece of art...maybe I should have put a Swiss army knife next to it??


Enjoy:)

Acrylic Adventure

While I catch up on showing you my newest paintings, I've been trying to improve on my color mixing skills.  A painting can be completely abstract or even downright ugly, but if the colors work together, and they are captured correctly, it will catch your eye.  I used to be so focused on the technical aspect of painting, like brush strokes, and glazing, but I could never capture a scene or photo the way I wanted.  Turns out that I needed to learn how to truly understand color.  I had been missing the big picture, no pun intended, on how colors work together in a composition, from reflections, and lighting, to knowing that shadows are definitely not just black.

This acrylic painting is of a brightly colored little street, that seems to have seen quite a bit, completed about a month ago.

"Yellow City"

Acrylic on Canvas

11"x14"

Starting a few days ago?

I've decided to start this blog to show my progress as a painter, and also as an artist in general.  I hope to put up some new art every day, get better at this blogging business, and show some of my travels along the way.  I'd love to get some feedback and meet some like minded, or not so like, artists.


This is the first painting I completed upon deciding to paint full time.  It's painted directly from a photo, as are many of my initial paintings, for learning purposes.  I'm mostly a charcoal/ pencil, and ink artist, and somehow find painting, other than some easy stuff, to be quite alien.  This took me about an hour.

"Beached"

Acrylic on canvas

9"x12"