Moi

I wore this pair of red glasses for the last 2 years that I absolutely loved - last week they broke and when I went to the eye doctor's office to drop off for repair, they told me they could not be repaired and were not available for replacement!  Bummer!  So, I had to do a painting to memorialize the red glasses.  Even if I didn't get my essence exactly right, I think I captured the red glasses.
Linda

Return to Faces

It felt good to paint a face again . . .
Linda

Journal Pages

Went to a wonderful mixed media class taught by Dina Wakley today.  We worked on layers in our journal pages and for mixed media pieces.  We layered with gesso, paint, stencils, painted tissue paper, pictures, watercolor crayons (and anything else one could think of).  Here are 2 of my journal pages.  Very fun and creative day!
Linda

Cactus

I have not painted recently . . . but have done a few other creative things . . . painted some Converse shoes . . .

and have been doing some ink/watercolor drawings of people . . .

and today I painted a cactus . . .

Red and White

Had a good day in painting class today - everyone else painted a cowboy . . . I did my own thing.
Linda

Yellow Boots

The model we had for the workshop showed up in these fabulous bright yellow boots.  We all liked them so much, we made her pose with them in several of our paintings.  We were on the beach today and I painted this one in the Japanese block style called "pattern painting".
Linda

Painting the Figure Plein Air

I am taking a 3-day plein air "paint the figure" workshop on the beach in Dana Point from Peggi Kroll Roberts.  Yesterday morning we had some sunshine, but by noon, it was raining.  So, yesterday afternoon and all day today, we have been inside.  We were not able to paint in oil so we painted in either watercolor or gouache.  We still had our live model and it was still great fun!

Here are a couple ink/watercolor studies I did.  I found that when I drew in pencil, I spent so much time erasing and trying to make it "perfect".  So, I decided to go for it in ink.  You will notice many lines that have correcting lines (like the angle of the foot, etc.) - but I just kept going.  Fingers crossed for sunshine tomorrow.
Linda