Riot of Color

Riot of Color

365/2013 No. 9

8x10 Acrylic on Canvas Panel

Day 9 of the Artist 365 paintings challenge!  Today I was in the mood for a fun and colorful painting.  Once it was painted, I decided to highlight some of the obvious shapes in it.  Love the play of the primary colors.  While this challenge is very challenging, it's going to be good for me to need to produce art every day.  Thanks for looking!

"I can do all things through Him" Phillppians 4:13

Evening Tide

Evening Tide

365/2013 No. 8

8 x 10 Oil on Canvas Panel

Today was a day full of errands which didn't leave much time for art.  So while I painted this pretty quickly, I'm still pleased with the overall look.  Some artists can limit themselves to 20 or 30 minutes to a painting. That's definitely not me!  However, during this 365 day challenge, I am trying to complete  some of the smaller ones in that time frame.  I think it will help me to loosen up and not worry the details so much.  Although I also think I'll be painting plenty of my larger paintings that sometimes take days.  I hope you enjoy traveling this journey with me.

Winterland

Winterland

365/2013 No. 7

7 x 9 Oil on Canvas Panel

This is Day 7 of the Artists 365/2013 Challenge and it's already being challenging to create artwork every day!  It's also being a great learning tool for me!  This is a simple winter scene.  The purple background against the ever green trees is a combination I'm liking.  Then the highlighted white tree stands out against these colors.  Thanks for looking!

Amethyst Dreams

Amethyst Dreams

365/2013 No.6 

11 x 14 Acrylic on Canvas Panel

I really have no idea why I seem to be on a purple kick at the moment other than Amethyst is my birthstone. When I want to paint yet don't have something specific in mind, I automatically paint my type of abstracts.  Originally these started out as background paintings but so many of them turned out so well that they became my abstracts.  I just love the various shades of purple you can achieve.  This actually started out  with dark blue and had pink added to achieve the purple effect.  Thanks for looking.    

365/2013 No. 5

Landscape

365/2013 No. 5

7x14 Oil on Canvas

This is a companion painting to yesterdays.  I had two 7 x 14 canvases that had been in my studio for quite some time so I decided to give them a try.  The idea I was trying to achieve was a simple landscape with a more colorful sky.  Not sure this photo really gives justice to this painting.