What are you working on??????????

[#1]

This morning I did a quick draw exercise. Gave myself 1 hour or less. I used acrylic and painted a portrait of a pig......I'm working on loosening up. I tend to get tight quickly.
Well this pig is loose and a bit interesting.
Have a painting floating around in my head that I hope to work on later. Will be gone for a while today. I'll use oil for the new one. I mostly paint alla prima.
So what are you working on????????

[Former_Member]

I was a little unsure how the composition would turn out. Though I am happy with the end result. I am waiting to see more of your work. The canvas is completely handmade though stretching it did prove to be difficult during the process. Though like I said I will be doing another beachscape and landscape.

[Former_Member]

Thanks Rachel
sorry about the canvas on the canvas....I had dropped so much paint on my canvas but get to it as soon as I realize it......Turp is out and thank good it is kind of a speckled carpet.
SK now that is determination to finish a 30 year old painting
Nice Charles and I agree does have a Chinese look
I sketched out a duck today 8x10......some pretty blue feathers....think I'm getting out the Thalo Blue...I don't use it often but I can see it on this duck....Hope to get it done tomorrow.
I love when we chit chat about our work and mishaps
good night everyone

[MorganRalstonArt]

While I'm painting a fairly large mirrored blue mountain based on this painting.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/107904845/original-acrylic-art-ocean-clouds

I'm using the excess paint and I'm painting little 5x7 abstracts I'm going to title "brick" No.1, 2 etc.

I want to add more variety to my gallery and a lower price point for original art... I'm guessing that's where the market is on Etsy.

Because the images are a bit larger than 5x7, I was thinking of selling them loose in a clear plastic sleeve with a matte and some slivers of linen tape. "Assemble as you please" style. That way the customer isn't stuck with it the way I thought it looked best in a matte... Or I may just paste them to a backing piece and fit them into the matte... Haven't decided...

I may not even attempt to sell these on Etsy...

[Former_Member]

lots of decisions Morgan
Finish my Duck Painting
I posted in under Sept. Listings
Think I'll do a small acrylic next but not sure what of.....maybe pears of nectrines or a mix of the two
Maybe a 6x6

[JBeaudetStudios]

Thanks SKCole, I thought it was very strange too that someone would go out of their way to put me down. If they were trying to get rid of the competition it didn't work! I'm still here!
I'm working on choosing some pieces to put in a local gallery and thinking about my next painting. I just finished this one
https://www.etsy.com/listing/110125713/original-oil-painting-landscapetropical
so I'm doing all the posting and promoting for it right now.
It's also time to buy more canvas so I'll be shopping online for that.
I'll be doing housework in between all that!
Have a great Saturday!

[MorganRalstonArt]

^ I love this. Especially the background portion of land with the trees and building. You can really sense the warmth from the sun and the gusts of the breeze. Very nice work.

[Former_Member]

finished a petunia painting I just listed

will work on an abstract next....just a little one 6x6

[BingArt]

Jennifer, love your beachscape!
Donnarose, saw your petunia piece- it is stunning!

I just finished up a little 6x8 abstract piece :) Time to clean up my paints for the day!

[Former_Member]

Jennifer , love the beachscape you have done. I have just finished my watercolor painting after four days of work. Its actually a mixture of acrylic and watercolor paints. I hope this piece portrays the view of a small creek in the woods. though it mainly shows water and leaves. My next piece will be of a landscape possibly in acrylic.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/110423434/the-small-creek-free-shipping

[Former_Member]

I have two paintings planned, well rolling around my head.
One an acrylic abstract 8x10 and the other an oil single poppy, maybe an 18x24
Expecting company from Mexico and California Friday to Monday so I won't paint for those days.
Seeing my great nephew for the first time.............fun.
So hope to paint tomorrow, thursday have a doctor appmt. then it will be Friday already. Where does the time go?????????????????
You all keep me motivated so much that I can hardly stand it when I can't pick up a brush everyday.
Thanks everyone

[Former_Member]

I'm working on my first oil painting. It's a landscape/figurative painting. I think I'd been trying to convince myself that acrylic was my medium for some reason but I recently realized that it didn't let me paint what I really wanted to.

[Former_Member]

lovely beach painting Jennifer! it's got a real atmosphere.

I've been testing out wet-on-wet technique in oils this week, and find it really enjoyable! I'm showing at a local group exhibition in a cafe soon that's 'home' themed - so I gave it a go, with two sort-of still lives (v simple ones that is!) and a simple abstract... I'll work up to balance of tone and line and more complex composition in the next lot of small paintings i intend to do :)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z27ceMU-Wmw/UGLjRZKNdSI/AAAAAAAACHA/Mueg1Z2M-9M/s1600/IMG_7864.JPG

[Former_Member]

Beatrice (by the way one of my favorite names)
I pretty much always paint alla prima........I hate going back to a painting that is already started....just can't get back in the same mode.....have a great show.
Loving all the paintings here.
Kallista, just to warn you oil can be addicting. Have fun!

[Former_Member]

Just pull another handmade canvas out and got it ready for watercolor. Most people tell me It can't be possibly done. That is I am assuming due to the watercolor paints. I found after many of trial an error process's that you can use certain material for watercolor canvas's. I am still debating what to paint onto this canvas. Possibly a landscape, though more then likely another beachscape.

[Former_Member]

Charles how about a still life from you, do you like painting them......I painted watercolor onto a reg. canvas but it I used it just as a underpainting....I did buy a couple of the canvases made for watercolor and painted a zebra on it and it worked quite well. did have some beading problem that was a bit of a struggle that I worked out......the lady was very happy with the painting.

[Former_Member]

I personally do like still life paintings, though I tend to mess them up with over working things on those type of paintings. I guess in all respect most things can be a still life. I just am a little wary of still life paintings due to I guess a style of perfection I try to go for. Realizing that all works have there own little quirks in them. I tend to paint things I get infatuated by like water.

[SKColeArt]

Hey guys, just a bit of creative marketing experience that I thought you might benefit from. I had a still life painting listed that was a pic of an apple branch in an old Bubbies pickle jar.

I sent the link to the listing to the Bubbies Pickle company--and they bought it. The owner wants to hang it in their offices.

I had a feeling tjhey would buy it because there have been a high number of hits on that listing over the past couple of days.

[Former_Member]

worked on a larger painting today for 5 hours......wow
but needs some tweaking but will have to wait until it dries

[JBeaudetStudios]

SK Cole- That's great! Hmmm. I'm going to have to start thinking about that idea! Thanks! Congratulations on your sale:)

[SKColeArt]

Thanks, Jennifer.

[SmallWorksbyMWilliam]

I've been working on an 8"x8" floral still life, one of a few scenes I photographed at a farmer's market earlier this month. While most small paintings take me about 2-3 days to complete, this has been one of those pieces that refuse to end and has dragged on for 2 weeks (mostly because I've just been working for 20 mins. and then getting frustrated). I got it to a point where I don't hate it but I'm not crazy about (I keep seeing it as too flat and controlled, something I try to avoid). Things like the glass vase are definite traps for me where I can't help but get sucked into ultra fine detailing, which ends up feeling more like arduous work than painting. Right when I got it to a point I'm ok with and was ready to complete it, a crowned tooth I've been having problems with for the past 2 years decided to get a bacterial infection and the whole right side of my face swelled up to elephant man proportions. I had to go to the dentist for emergency iv antibiotics and pain relievers, and I am in bed for the next few days until the swelling goes down and I can get my tooth extracted. The antibiotics make me too nauseous to do anything, so I am left to stare at this painting that was so close to finished. On the bright side, it gives me time to come on here and complain about it ;-) What do you guys think of it so far?

http://mryczek.blogspot.com/2012/09/yellow-roses-timelapse.html

Thanks,

_Mike

[Former_Member]

Bad luck with the tooth work! what a palava.

The yellow roses is a great painting, so far loose but evocative with a great sense of light. Had a quick look at your blog, v good paintings. I particularly like this one http://mryczek.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/contribution.html

I've got some boards gessoed and ready for some more 'alla prima' oil work tonight, should be fun! and yes, true - it certainly seems like it'll become quite addictive...might have to sort out some kind of transportation device for panels so that I can do them when I'm out and about too :)

when they're dry and I've float framed them, I might actually make some listings for them too!

[SKColeArt]

I just finished/posted this one:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/110645279/prickly-pear-in-bloom-original-oil

[Former_Member]

SK congrats and thanks for sharing
Mike sorry about the tooth, does not sound like fun. The struggling with the painting I totally understand
I worked 5 hours on a 24x28 oil and thinking the best thing to do is to black it out and start over.....Hate it when painting just don't work.....
Beatrice love the float frames....do you make your own?
Lovely painting

[SKColeArt]

Oil painters, don't you hate it when linseed oil gets on your fingers and you can't get the smell off to save your life?

Yuck. Linseed oil. Double-Yuck.