30 in 30 9-11

30 in 30 Days 5 - 8

Day 2 - 4

30 in 30 Black and White Day 1

Backlit Bones

Backlit Snack

Madonna and Child with Saints Dorothy and George

This painting was a lot of fun to paint and challenging to say the least. This is the last image from the little book I sacrificed to paint the Titian copies, so I had to look it up online to get the title. Well guess what? Turns out my little book's colors were completely off. The drapes are green and St. Dorothy's cape is an ochery color... Sa la vie. The painting needs to be oiled up and I'll do that in a couple of weeks and post the better picture. I've grown to love Titian's work and I hope that the copies I made will inform and improve my own work, which I have to get back to.

Silver Ribbon

I was inspired by the DPW challenge of painting a black and white subject with colors and I wanted to paint reflective surfaces. I had a lot fun painting it especially the bow, which I thought would be impossible, but instead it came easily. Wonders will never cease! Also, I listened to The Fiery Cross by Diana Galbadon while painting this and I have to say, what a treat. The Outlander series is so smart. I love her turn of phrase and the reader is wonderful, as well. The best thing is there are about 5 more books in the series and each has about 50 hours of listening enjoyment, which essential to me as I paint. Happy thought indeed.

I Lost Them

Kaelyn

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This is one of my students. I saw this student of the month photo of her and I couldn't resist painting it.

Cloisonne Box with Marbles and Floats

Tea Time

I've had the best 2 weeks off from work. Got a lot of painting in. Did some reading. Just read Longborne and highly recommend it to the Jane Austen fans out there. I loved it and Jane would have loved it too! I wanted to finish this painting before my rather frisky kitten knocks it over. I think I did. Enjoy and thanks for looking.

Mabel Ringling's Rose Garden

What a treat to paint at Ringling! I had just finished reading The Ringmaster's Wife, which was very good, before attending a paint out at Ringling. I had to paint the garden after learning about Mabel's interesting and saintly life. It's free to stroll the beautiful grounds and it's a lovely place to paint. I used my artistic license and edited out the trash can. Thanks for looking.

The Entombment another Titian copy

Merry Xmas Ornaments

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I had a lot of fun painting these ornaments. I was inspired by the 10 minute challenge at the DPW, but I stopped painting the red one at 15 minutes and decided to just to paint three more until they were finished. Definitely not in 15 minutes. (There's a mini selfie in three of the bulbs.) I hope your holiday was joyous and thanks for looking.

Two Views from Selby

Anna Maria

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Being an artist is something like being a voyeur. I was fascinated with this group at the beach.  They really came prepared, to the tune of 6 umbrellas.

New Plein air Paintings

Living in Florida in the winter is paradise and that's why we moved here but around mid-October every year, I'm frantic to sell up and move away. I do enjoy a few months of summer heat, but summer in Fl lasts a good 6 months and the last few are very much like Dante's inferno. This year the strong and desperate urge to move came just about 2 weeks before heaven set in. Whew! The ideal is to become a snowbird, in the future I hope. So now I'm playing catch up with gardening and I'm painting outside too. I found a group of Sarasota artists through Meet Up that paint weekly and the 2 middle paintings were painted with them. I'm so glad I found them and I'm grateful to be painting in a paradise that's within driving distance.

Copy of a detail from Titian's Pastoral Concert

I posted this one earlier and have reworked it.

Diana and Callisto detail after Titian

So many of the old master paintings are wrought with emotion and pathos while the art of our time seems to be more about looking, portraying light and color and shadow. And yet, our time is becoming increasingly dramatic, violent and tragic. Are we ignoring the stories that are unfolding around us? Is the art world politically correct? I don't know, but while I was painting this, I had these thoughts along with, what is going on in this picture anyway? Was there a great wind that blew off all these women's clothes? To quote the Simsons, "What is being implied here"?