For several years my niece has been kind enough to be my model for my attempts at portraiture. I hope with each one I do I get a little better. I have been wanting to do this one for a while. It's always a challenge to try to capture a moment in time in a persons life. Thanks for stopping by.

Sometimes, when I do I sketch, I'm hoping it will work as a painting. Thanks for stopping by.

 

I'll be the first to admit that sometimes, I overwork a sketch. This is what has happened here. It is only a 6"x8" panel canvas but, a lot is going on in the scene. You have the woman sitting on the bench, the dog on a leash standing in front of her, the beach grass, the path, the ground around the area where the figures are, the ocean in the distance, and the sky. It will be interesting for me to see how it turns out. I hope I won't go overboard on detail as I am trying for a looser painting style. Thanks for stopping by.

I've had this idea for a painting for a while. It seems to me I've spent a certain amount of time in my life looking out of windows at the world and I wanted to capture that. I'm interested to see where this painting will take me.

 

I guess I have the beach on the brain because I continue to sketch pelicans. Herbie has wrangled his buddy and fellow studio cat, Lady Marbles, into helping out with the household chores. Here they are joining together to help fold yet more laundry. Thanks for stopping by.

 

As I continue to work on creating more sketches for paintings, Herbie is trying to help out the best he can with the housework. Here he is helping to fold laundry. Thanks for stopping by.

 

I'm continuing to make sketches to paint. I have discovered I am one of those people that needs to have everything sketched out and waiting before I can go forward. I sometimes like to use a white pencil on top of black gesso for my drawings. I'm disappointed that some personal things arose that interfered with my doing the 30 Paintings In 30 Days Challenge. I am so far behind now, I am unable to catch up. When I have 30 sketches completed I'm going to challenge myself to complete them in 30 days. Good luck to the artists that are succeeding in completing their paintings. I'm enjoying looking at all the wonderful work being done. Thanks for stopping by.