Finally!

 I finally got to my easel tonight!  I think the "Coq Bleu" might be done.  Ala Prima from a photograph I took at John Traynor's open house.  I don't know whether this rooster is anatomically possible, but I like the energy of the colors and brush work.  8 x 10 oil/canvas

This needs just a bit more detail.  (Also 8 x 10).  Amazing to me how much faster a smaller painting goes after getting used to the larger ones! The sky and clouds aren't reading "right" but I don't know that I much are.  I do want window sashes and shutters, though, and the flag and hanging baskets.
Here's the reference photo:  a home in Kingston, NH.

I also did a little bit of fussing on this one, which I am planning to enter into the NAA Member's Juried Show.  Even if the juror doesn't like it, it was felt more ambitious than anything I've tried before.

 And the "left overs" panel.  Sometimes I knife the paint left over on my palette onto a board or canvas.  Upon turning this one upside down and around... I'm thinking It may have a life as a cat.  What do YOU see?!!

Sketchy (Re)Start

This is a "sketchy" start, in more ways than one.
I promised an online-artist friend that I would start an art blog before the end of the weekend.  Officially, it is Monday, but I haven't been to bed  yet, so I hope this counts.

Above is an experiment with two smallish new boxes of pastels:  Rembrandts and NuPastels.  I've signed up for a class beginning next month.  I don't know that I really want to "switch" to pastels, but I love the way pastel artists use color, squiggles and strokes.  Surely I can learn to do some of that with oil paints!  Or encaustic! or mix all sorts of media together.

So I've started. If I find an economical venue that works better for a "gallery" for work better than Blogspot, I'll let you know.

By the way, I have two paintings in the Newburyport Art Association Members Show which opens September 14, 2013.

And I sold a painting at the 8 cubed show last month.

Rack 'Em Up

 Thanks for reading!