painting – Page 2 – mind and heart

another try

I decided to take another shot at turning this funny-shaped tree into a painting. Acrylic on hardboard, 2.75×3.75 inches.

red leaf plum tree

Watercolor on paper, 5×7 inches.

golden leaves

Watercolor on paper, 5×7 inches.

blotting paper art

This is a corner of a page I used for wiping extra paint from several different paintings. This kind of painting (unplanned, accidental, instinctive) is not what I want to spend all my time doing, but I like it as an exercise. And as a way to feel like I’m not wasting the excess paintContinue reading “blotting paper art”

a little wild and in motion

This has been such a wonderful painting to carry from beginning to end. It’s been about a year since I started putting down my first ideas for it, nearly three months since I started working in earnest on the final product, and I can tell that I’ve grown as an artist in that time. HereContinue reading “a little wild and in motion”

ruth

I’m drawn to using yellow eyes. Aren’t they arresting?

sola

I really like the way the texture in her hair turned out. And, no, I can’t do hands at all yet. I first envisioned this as a girl with vines of flowers woven through her hair and adorning her clothes, a sort of woman of the meadows. But instead she became a woman of theContinue reading “sola”