Little Bit O' News

"Annie's Oil Lamp"
6" x 6"
watercolor on aquabord

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I finally finished a couple paintings I've been working on:  "Annie's Oil Lamp" and "Sugar Pumpkin."  I'm auctioning off "Annie's Oil Lamp" on DPW and am happy to announce that "Sugar Pumpkin" is on its way to the Randy Higbee Gallery's "6 Inch Squared Show" in California along with "Bittersweet."  I hope while there, they will find their "forever homes!"  :)

Thank you for viewing my work.

"Bittersweet"
6" x 6"
watercolor on aquabord

"Sugar Pumpkin"
6" x 6"
watercolor on aquabord

(what "Annie's Oil Lamp" could look like framed)

Annie's Oil Lamp

 "Annie's Oil Lamp" - wip
6" x 6"
(watercolor on aquabord)

Almost done!  :)  Have a lovely day.

Tina's Lamp

"Tina's Lamp"
19.5" x 12.75"
(watercolor on paper)

I'm happy to say this one is done.  I'm not sure how it looks on your monitor, but it's been difficult to color correct on mine and is looking a bit dark here on blogger.  It's less jarring in person I think . . . a little more calm, the contrast looks a little severe here.  Anyway . . . it's done and I'm excited!  :)  Thank you to my friend and student, Tina for her photograph.  And thank YOU all for reading my blog.  Have a great day!

Done?

I cranked up some more contrast on this today - painting in darker washes in both the background and even on the lamp in area. I also played with temperature, cooling the background to help it recede and warming up the lamp. I am "baby-stepping" this painting, to say the least. Maybe someday it will be done. I love the way it looks on my monitor, unfortunately I have to do a little more tweaking to play with the contrasting values, so it matches this in person.  Unfortunately though, outside the window isn't as light in person, as it appears here.  :(   I'll have to see what I can do about that, because I love how it looks on the computer.  :)

Anyway, thank you for stopping by.  

I'm Still Working

Even though I haven't posted, I just wanted to prove that I've been working.  :)  This one is going quite slowly, as I tweak all those reflections and details. I'm also still working on the overall feeling I want this painting to have, so every time I put another wash over the background I have to go back and re-work some details.  No biggie . . . just time consuming.  

Thank you for taking a peek.

Reflections

"Winter Whites" - work in progress
19.5" x 12.75"

One of my students took pictures of this lantern for her next project. We made some compositional adjustments in Photoshop, and I was particularly intrigued by this one. It's a difficult subject and I wanted to prepare for assisting my student with its many challenges. The body is metal with lots of reflections. 

I've also done more work on my bottles, just haven't taken photos.  I'm looking to have these completed by next week.  

Thank you for viewing my work. :)

more progress

"Winter Whites" - work in progress
(detail)