I have been painting every single day and feel behind on the challenge. I guess the goal is to paint everyday and that is accomplished. I will be picking up the pace and hope to get as many paintings as I possibly can this month AND paint every single day! (an accomplishment in itself!)
Anyway.. Posting this one on day 5 of the challenge. This was painted from a photo I took of my dog Gumbo. He was sitting down outside with the forest in the background. Painted this a bit looser and it was so fun. I know that face so well he was so very easy for me to paint! I love this dog!
Now on to painting #3 but I can't post it.. it's a gift and can't post till she has it in hand.. so i'll be posting #4 next :)
I finished this one yesterday on the 2nd and I painted large for a daily challenge, so I'll be playing catch up here. Have #2 on the easel (my dog) and that is almost done. Painting like mad to have my paintings in line with the day of the month, but here I go! I love a good challenge!
This is painted from a friend of my Deb Sprague at Faith Hope Love Ranch in Oregon. 2 of her baby longhorns! Thank you Deb!
Ok.. I started this painting to be completed in January but then life got in the way. A very busy week and I just didn't have much time to paint but I did hope to finish this one in January to post in the challenge. I'll see if I can even add it to the challenge? Maybe it's too late. The thing about this challenge that is so wonderful is it gets me out of my painting lulls.. I have been in a bit of a funk since the end of 2014. I was really only completing my Nibblefest art contest entry each month. This year I'm wanting to blog more (yeah I know I've said that in the past). Facebook is making it harder and harder for art pages to be seen so maybe blogging more is the answer?
My goal this year is to work on my Polish Pottery still life series, add new items to my Etsy shop
( that I hope to announce soon) , paint more animals (great break in between still lives to not get burned out) and keep at my abstracts. Really enjoy the abstracts.
Anywho.. this would of been my 9th in January.. but I plan to keep up my painting momentum and blogging more.. So please follow my blog.
My 8th painting this month for 30 in 30 and also my Nibblefest contest entry for the (third letter in your first name theme). So for heAther , I am doing "A is for Apple" and on a Polish pottery plate in the flowering peacock pattern (pattern 166A- Zaklady).
5 day auction on eBay ending on the 27th and starting at 99cents, NO reserve!! Winners are the entries with most 'unique' or individual bidders, so if you like this painting! Bid.. very low start price! Great monthly art contest I enjoy participating in each month on eBay. Consider signing up for my newsletter to get my monthly entries and coupon codes.
Painting #7 for me this month was painted from a friends photo of a newborn baby longhorn cow named, Summer.. She said I could paint from her pics! Thank you Deb! I do really enjoy the cow paintings and need to go out and take some references myself. I do have a good reference photo I took and one day I will paint on a huge canvas! Can't wait! Nibblefest art contest on eBay painting is up next.. starting at 99cents no reserve.. stay tuned .. :)
Ok.. you are thinking it.. only 6 paintings? LOL.. yep! I have painted every single day so that is a good thing although some days I didn't paint for very long.. I didn't want to burn out too bad but I'm feeling behind to be honest. My personal goal is to paint every single day and at least get to 15 by end of month.. so i better step it up.. YIKES!!
Day 14 and only on my 5th painting! Yikes.. yes I need to step it up.. Making a personal goal to get to 15 paintings this month. I have painted everyday this month ,which is wonderful, as I haven't been doing that in way too long...so YAY!
My 5th painting is a Polish pottery still life painting. Cut up kiwi fruit and fork set on a Wiza daisy patterned plate. I love the patten of the pottery being the background of the fruit.. so fun to paint these patterns! I love the vibrant colors in this one.. a fun painting to do!
Been a hectic week and I'm behind and I doubt I'll have 30 paintings but I am painting everyday. Monday evening we were watching the Killing on Netflix and my 12yr old made popcorn and I was eating some and broke my tooth!! Yikes! 2 dental appointments and a crown later.. I'm posting my next painting, a Polish Pottery still life.. I'm trying to juggle the pottery still life with the abstracts I'm experimenting with so this will be a fun month.
Enough rambling. Here's my 3rd painting this month.
I have always loved abstract paintings. I never paint them but I love them. I am really happy with this abstract piece I finished yesterday. Lots of impasto textures, scratches and movement in this painting. Blues, reds, oranges, yellows and whites. I'll be painting more abstracts this month to mix in between my other paintings such as my Polish Pottery still life series.
So I signed up on New Years Eve to do the 30 paintings in 30 days painting challenge. It is a big commitment and while I love it.. wipes me out to keep up. Here we are on the 3rd of the month and I'm posting my 1st painting but I didn't start till late on the 1st .. Ok.. I won't give a bunch of excuses but I'm going to get as many of the 30 paintings done that I can and also plan to get farther in my Polish Pottery Still Life Series! One of my paintings in the series will be included in a Polish pottery annual magazine and I really want to get farther in the series as it's been since August that I painted one last. Yikes.
Ok.. enough rambling! I have lots of painting to do! My plan is get farther.. hopefully in the 90's of this series, experiment with abstracts as they are something that I love and want to experiment with those
#jan30in30
My 1st paining on day 3 of the challenge is:
"Eggs: Polish Pottery LXXXI"
acrylic on canvas
6x8x 1 3/8"
varnished
Original available on Etsy (prints will be added also). HERE
