Garden Wisteria

Today's painting is a wisteria vine in an abandoned nursery -- not sure if I am done with it or not yet -- always prop the newest painting up on my mantle to look at it for a few days to see if it needs some touching up.
Linda

Red Hair and Green Hat

Here is a new figure painting (15x30 on stretched canvas):

I showed my art teacher the funky face painting shown in the last post - I sort of thought of it as an aborigine woman - my art teacher immediately said "Mick Jagger"!!!  Eye of the beholder and all that.
Linda

Creativity

I believe it's important to develop the creative muscle every chance we get -- most of the time I focus on having a finished painting -- like the still life from the last post.  So, this week, I decided to "play" a little bit.  As I have talked about before, I really enjoy painting faces/figures.  So, this was the result of my play on Wednesday night (8x8 on panel):

Last night, I did a very fun painting (while looking at a photo of myself just to get structure of eyes, nose, etc.) - but no, it is not a self portrait!  ha!  (and yes, it is okay to laugh).  (9x12 on panel)

So, go out and do something creative today! 

Linda

Classic Still Life

Just a still life -- but no matter the subject matter, it's still practice.
This is an 11x14 painting on canvas panel . . .

More palette knife

I am having so much fun -- continuing to experiment with the palette knife.  Here is my latest "Daisies in Turquoise Jar" (8x8 oil on gessobord).
Linda

New Paintings

I have had a dear friend from the Bay area visiting for a few days and we spent some time painting during her visit.  (Her name is Mary Valente -- check out her blog - she is a very talented painter: 
http://mary-valente.blogspot.com/)

We experimented with the palette knife . . . here are a couple of mine:

Both are 6x6 on gessobord panels .
Linda

Persimmons

When I first started painting, I had a thing for painting persimmons . . .painting after painting of the fall fruit.  When arriving at class today and finding out that we could paint a still life of persimmons, I was quickly on board.  I am attaching today's painting and one of my very first paintings of persimmons (hopefully, you will be able to tell the difference).
Linda