A lifetime of painting, growing, learning

Working on my portrait today, dreaming of the next one.....there are so many that I want to work on & I have a list going: a man dressed in business attire, an old man in casual clothes, a young woman, a little girl. I'm thinking maybe in 10 years I'll have this mastered....or maybe longer....what a great journey though!

Red Shawl 2, WIP continured

After 2 days of painting, here's where she is now. 

How many colors in a face

I hate to have to leave her when she's just starting to emerge from the canvas..... spent all day getting the drawing right, and had about 2 hours to paint before I had to leave to teach for the evening. This is the next in the Red Shawl series.

I look at my palette and I love how many different subtle colors are in a face--I have 9 mixed colors & of course use blends of them to create more on the fly. Yet we look at a face and never imagine how much is going on there to make it look right.

Sheep May Safely Graze

Church this morning is at my easel, with Josh Groban and the bright morning sunshine. "Sheep May Safely Graze."

The Red Shawl

The first in a series.

The Red Shawl, WIP

This is the new piece I'm working on-- a large portrait of a young woman with a red scarf over her head. I've learned so much about portrait painting over the last year, this one is going faster & easier as I make less mistakes! It still has a long way to go. I need to warm up her skin tones & there are still a few rendering tweaks that need to be made.