Advertisements Today, I finished up my gouache flower painting by adding a blue background. I am really so happy with the results and plan to give this to a friend, as a gift. I had a bit of blue paint left over, so I added some sandy-colors and painted a cradled wood panel in aContinue reading “Mermaid Gazing Out to Sea and other things”
Category Archives: Cradled Wood Panel
Windy Weather or A Chilly Spring
Advertisements This painting started out as one thing and ended up as something completely different! Originally, I was envisioning the background of birds with a very colorful young woman. Not the usual skin tones, but lots of yellows, pinks, and lavenders. The birds are decoupaged on, and once the painting was finished, I had thoughtContinue reading “Windy Weather or A Chilly Spring”
Of Lemons and Oranges, Young Woman with Turquoise Background
Advertisements For this painting, I started with my pale pink decoupage, sketched out my young woman, and then began adding another decoupaged background. As an artist, inspiration for a project can come from almost anywhere. As soon as I saw this napkin, I knew I had to use it as a background. Being a cocktailContinue reading “Of Lemons and Oranges, Young Woman with Turquoise Background”
Young Woman in a Lilac Dress
Advertisements This beautiful young woman was evading me, but she finally emerged from my canvas, and I have to say that she was worth the struggle! Thanks to my husband’s encouragement, I did not give up on her! Before getting to this version of her, I repainted her completely three or four times. This finalContinue reading “Young Woman in a Lilac Dress”
Young Woman with a Green Background
Advertisements I’ve really challenged myself with this painting! To start with, for inspiration, I looked through Etsy for models wearing flower crowns. When I found a beautiful model that I wanted to paint, I used an app to turn the photo into line art. I printed the line art to use for tracing… Just aContinue reading “Young Woman with a Green Background”
Girl Wearing Orange Earrings, on Cradled Wood Panel, February 2nd, 2023
Advertisements Due to my sleep disorder, this painting was done late at night and into the morning. Here are my paint brushes: In the end, I used all of these colors, plus a few more. I started by coating a cradled wood panel with clear gesso and then decided to decoupage the background/underlying skin toneContinue reading “Girl Wearing Orange Earrings, on Cradled Wood Panel, February 2nd, 2023”