Here is the final version of this painting. It’s 11″x14″ oil on canvas. I like it better without the trees, thank you to those of you who sent me your comments after my last post. This was a case of making a painting better by taking something out. I hear about that but I don’t

Those trees were buggin me. What do you all think about this painting without the green trees? In the previous post I have the original painting with the trees, I’ve just photoshopped out the trees. I kinda like the “no trees” version. I guess I’m thinking the trees don’t add anything, and in fact, without

Here is the 11″x14″ oil on canvas finished. One of my favorite things about this painting is all the purple and green in the foreground. I’m not sure how that happened, it just sort of happened during the painting process and it was fun. Thanks for looking!

Here is what my easel looks like this morning. Yesterday I chose the reference photo and drew a small pencil sketch for composition. When I was happy with my pencil sketch, I did the “sketch” in oil paint on an 11″x14″ panel. This morning I did two quick thumbnails to figure out what color I

I painted this from a figure a couple of days ago. The model was wearing a long off-white dress with very full sleeves. This is an 11″x14″ oil on linen canvas. You can see my canvas below, the painting is almost finished, looks like I only had the background left to do. On another note,

Here is a better photo of my son on his 14th birthday. It’s still wet so there is quite a glare, but at least we had a sunny day today so I was able to get a better representation of the painting. I heard back from the printer and he wants $40.25 to make 25

Yesterday was my son’s 14th birthday. I got a tiny cake at the grocery store and after dinner we had a family birthday party. I painted this little 6″x8″ canvas this afternoon, it is oil on linen canvas. When it’s dry I’ll frame it and hang it in his room. He had a birthday party