Here's a similar painting to the last one, but it is supposed to be "low key"

"A Little Fruity"

Green Without

Lemons

More Heads

Apples in a Bowl

This is an assignment I had to do of something that was a reflective surface.

fabric study SOLD

more assignments

The Art Student

So, most of my postings for a while won't be too original or anything, and pretty academic in nature. It may be fun for any of you who happen to check to see what I'm up to. Definitely not slacking though.

Head Drawing Studies

Value Studies

Ava idea II

After working on that pastel some more, and going further and further downhill, I decided I might have to start over. Here's a sketch from another picture of the same model that has a little better shadow shapes.

AVA (work in progress)

I keep thinking I'm almost done with this one and then I see more things I need to fix. I'll post it when it is done. I think it will be a really nice painting.

Head Drawing

I haven't posted much lately because I decided to forge ahead with my MFA and I am in a couple of intense graduate art classes. One is Advanced still life painting and the other is head drawing. above is a work in progress and below is a still life value study. fun fun fun

"Beverly Beach" SOLD

Here's what I've been working on the past couple of weeks. It is finished at last. I've also been working on my house, my routines, and trying to get everything ready to start back up with my MFA classes. I'll be starting on Monday, so I guess I've been sleeping in a little, knowing that it is going to be back to the drawing board pretty intensely. I have three portrait commissions which I will be working on this week as well. I'll do my best to get as much done as I can before Monday, but we'll see how it goes.

Pirates and Princesses

Here's my little fam all dressed up on my 30th birthday. That's the dress I made. It's even reversible. Too bad they wouldn't let us into Disney in our costumes, so I had to wear a Mickey shirt with my gold skirt all day. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.

"Memories on the Bay" SOLD

Well, thanks to Nate, I got at least one image up here more quickly than I thought.

Happy New Year

After a week in Florida, Christmas, and a great week of having my family in town, I'm finally ready to get back into the swing of things. I scraped off my palette, cleaned out my studio, and I got some good painting in yesterday. I'm still having technological difficulties. We got a new computer from Nate's brother. The computer that I saved all my pics on doesn't have internet yet. I'm going to keep up the painting, but it still might take me a couple more days to get all the bugs worked out with the computers and stuff.
Happy New Year! Thanks for checking out my blog. Don't give up on me. It will be a little more action packed soon.

SOLD

I'm not posting any images today, so as not to accidentally spoil someone's Christmas present just in case they view my blog....
But I have been painting every day in the last week and today I sold a painting- Two paintings even.
I could post the other project I've been working on. Ha Ha.
We're leaving for Orlando tomorrow and we're going to Disney, so I spent way too much time sewing myself a princess costume to wear on my birthday. I even made it reversible in case I feel like going from being a blue princess to being a gold princess.
Anyway, just had to post the news so everyone doesn't think I've just pooped out of doing daily paintings already.
I'm going to try and paint a little on my trip, and I'll start up with gusto once we get back.