Hillside Trail Video

The time spent in painting is about an hour, though it took longer to plan the major shape and value placements.

 Watching your own painting process can be a great education!

Gold Rimmed Tea Cup

From Naomi's collection of tea cups

Rose Tea Cup

I will usually learn something new with each painting . Sometimes I'm looking to discover something specific, and the painting is setup with that goal in mind. Other times you just take the lesson that comes.

Wooden Toucan

I thank some sculptor that made this. there aren't many toucans on the Idaho prairies. This one appears to be checking out his shadow.

Indian Blanket Still Life

Found this to be more of a challenge, in how to simplify a more complex subject.

Yellow

an experiment to see more color in these yellow bananas. I did get some of the color interaction I'm trying for. I see The color differences could be a lot bolder.

Yellow Ribbon

experimenting to got more vibrant color with the limited pallet I'm using.

The Student

Naomi's Ballerina doll

SunnyBrook

Same subject and kind of looks the same, but I learned something new.

Pinocchio and chair

Pinocchio Doll and twig chair, Naomi has a bunch of these "critters" so I'll just keep painting them using Red, Yellow, Black, and White. The challenge I face using this pallet is to keep the colors clean, and to make Black look like Blue.

Sitting in the Grown-up Chair

Apple 2

working on getting more brightness and less muddy color

Small Apple

Something simple to start with.

First Tulips

I was able to keep the colors clean by putting them on with a pallet knife and moving them with a brush. Going back into a painting this way is a new technique for me.I got the idea looking at Jane Hunt's blog post This morning

Value study

Wanted to post this even though it's only started.

Block Studies

Observing color interaction, using earth color pallet