After a few months I revisited my tooth painting, just wasn’t happy with it. If you recall , this was about a scout trip we took in the mountains and I wanted it as a present to my son. Although he is happy with it, I wasn’t, so I took it back to try something different. This first is the new painting. I tried to improve depth and increase contrast as well as darkening and putting some movement in the sky. Changed the composition a bit too. Any thoughts?

My most recent oil painting finished, from an actual vintage photo of a cowgirl named Nellie Brown in 1881. I struggled mightily with the background for months, vanquished the piece to the shelf and let it sit for a few - then circled back around to it. I'm much happier with the whole painting now. 🙂

I'm new to the group and the 'alert' is for me... I feel like this is not my domain - I am the world's laziest artist. I have no formal training and feel resistant to drawing out what I really should before I get started (I think it's my drawing skills that kill my vibe). Somehow, I have managed to create a few paintings I really love. But I've also gone AWOL on my art in lieu of business-building (which seems to have been never-ending for 36 years) ... So, here I am - ready to engage and be inspired by all you incredible people doing incredible heart-based things. Here's a random selection of some of my creations. (Sorry - they seems to have come up a bit grainy in the transfer...)

I did this as an experiment with acrylics, was enjoying water color at the time, but, wanted to try something different using the bold color acrylics. This was done some time ago using this new medium. Since never went back the watercolor. It is best the view each panel while listening to the three versus of a Beatles tune “Lucy in the Skies with Diamonds”. For those of you that have asked for this … it is different … enjoy

Only my second painting so I’m an absolute beginner and will still be for a long time. Would therefore appreciate any feedback. I struggled with many things including mixing accurate colours and values to match the reference. Also struggled to keep the colour puddles contained to small areas on the glass palette as it was difficult to scrape the oil paint up from the surface of the glass with a palette knife and the paint kept spreading across a wider area as I tried to mix colours. So I was frustrated about several aspects but overall it was still a positive experience as at least I was painting!