Waiting for Daffodils
They’ll open shortly My sunny perennial garden is starting. I couldn’t wait so I picked a couple of buds. The setup begged me to start laying in paint.
More Gifts of Spring
Great Neighbors One of my great neighbors stopped in with a vase of forsythia from the gardens near their home. It’s just another lovely invitation to paint so it got me going.
Spring Fever hits!
First plantings
Life Intervenes
As many of you know, my husband suffers from Alzheimer’s. Actually that form of dementia allows him to be completely unaware of his diminished capacities, I and those who love him are the ones who suffer. All this year since he has moved from our apartment and into skilled care I have been busily figuring…
2019 Edmondson
Daniel Edmondson has two offerings which interested me. Either a Weekly Painting Class of an 11 DVD Advanced Still Life Class. Since I’m enjoying the monthly group with Kelli I chose to purchase the 11 DVD class. I am doing the Edmondson paintings as time opens with the Kelli’s. Here’s what I’ve completed so far.
2019 Kelli Folsom
Vital Art Sessions In January I signed up for Kelli Folsom’s monthly subscription program. This allowed me to paint even more often and to become part of a group of like-minded artists. We prefer to paint realistic still life oil paintings. Kelli has a well thought out program for encouraging us to paint, to improve,…
2018 Daniel Edmondson
In the Fall I ordered the 10 DVD Still Life Course from Daniel Edmondson. He’s another enormously talented and generous teacher. The DVDs may have been recorded quite a while ago, but the instruction and techniques are basically timeless. My paintings got better. 2018 Pear Martini
Vidalia Onion
This painting is being sold for $250 and 25% will be be used ship medical supplies to Ukraine.
First Still LIfe Class
Will Kemp Art School offers an Advanced Still Life Class
More Copying from the Masters
Why copying from the masters I love is my best strategy Now I’ve decided to jump right into the pool. Here’s why: pretty much every painting technique I need to learn has been done before. And often these are to be found in my favorite paintings, those of David A. Leffel. To make a painting…
Copying from the Masters
Why copying from the masters is your best strategy In my opinion, it’s far, far easier to understand how great paintings work, and then use those painting principles to create your own pieces. One painting a week, even one painting a month you would soon have a collection. I’ve been spending a lot of time…
Early 2018 works
My Setups and Color Studies I looked for free videos online by artists using the techniques I loved. I found that most YouTube painting videos are focused on regular oil paint. And I found that the information was readily translate-able to WSO. I began working on color videos from Will Kemp and Kelli Folsom. Click…
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