Day 123: Progress on elephant eye painting

Day 122: Progress on Queen series

My clever friend Gina Hampen -  http://wheegina.blogspot.co.uk/
put a quote from Ira Glass on our 365ers FB page. Basically it is motivation for struggling, creative and desperate souls to carry on. In the quote it says: do a LOT of work, so I am:)

Day 120: Angel-boy finished

Day 116: Start (and half way) elephant eye painting

This is a close up of an elephant eye that I have started recently and got quite well on with it. I am actually painting it from a photograph by Karl Lindsay who is a very talented photographer. The original photo as well as more fabulous photography you can find here: https://www.facebook.com/karllindsayphotography

My aim with this painting is mainly to work on my technical skills, hence copying a photo. It should look better once the lashes are on:)

Day 108: One step forward, three steps back

 

This is what happens when attempts are half-hearted and fittingly it is on a heart theme I made this horrible painting. I'm going to paint it over tomorrow but I wanted to share it here in order to remember what not to do in the future. I feel a lot from the heart and really wanted to capture something from it for these theme but I didn't commit to it. This image is like something I would have painted two years ago in it's style and technique, it's neither here or there. And this, in a nutshell, is my problem.

I feel things, then I am too afraid to commit to that feeling because mainly I don't want to offend anyone, especially my family and out comes this cliche-like rubbish..

My other problem is that I have put a lot of effort in painting and drawing technique over the past three years but can't seem to be able to marry those to my expression from the heart which, again, is problematic..and I think to much.

Day 102: Angel-boy painting stage 2

My oil painting group is having a small selling exhibition on 22 June so as part of my small goals I aim to have enough art to join in in the sale. Apparently contemporary paintings and children playing on the beach are best sellers in that particular place, hrm, I will have to think about that.
Anyway, here is angel-boy stage 2.

Day 101: New beginnings

I started three (actually four but it's rubbish so I painted it over) new paintings. I decided I love painting most and want to explore that. The large one is going to be a contemporary-ish portrait, the small brown one is following Caravaggio's technique of painting and the blue one is exploring technique called 'ghosting' and it's fun:)
The sketch for the blue painting is on day 96.

Day 81: Bird-Woman Totem Sketch

The ambition for this little sketch is to become an icon-style painting with gold background. If I ever get round to it...

Day 80: Water color snow owl

Day 61: Oil Painting Thursdays

Day 47: Oil-Painting Thursdays

All my previous attempts in painting oils have turned into mud so I decided to go on a course and learn properly. This is my take on a cheeta that has been painted by a canadian artist who's name i cant remember. 

I will be doing this every thursday for several weeks now, plenty of time to make a mess out of it :)