Grizzly Bear Sow and Cubs painting demo

I only decided to make this a demo at this stage…sorry, I didn’t get an earlier pic! But this is only about 40 minutes in. The canvas is only 9″x 12″. I didn’t draw or grid this one at all.  I just eyeballed the main shapes and distances with reference marks, filling in the darkest darks

mother and child, beach painting

A Walk on the Beach – Tofino, 24″ x 48″ oil on canvas $2,000 Hi all, I’m back!! Yay! We finally have had our internet issues resolved, hopefully this time for good, so I will be much better at posting now. Ever since we got back from holidays, we’ve been on dial-up (and very slow

Nap Time #3 (in progress)

Okay, this isn’t really only the third painting session, but I didn’t dare show you all the previous two or three before this! Frightening! For literally 15 painting hours, I went backwards. Once again, I seemed to forget everything I learned. I’m starting to question the whole inspiration thing. Every successfull artist I’ve ever read

Crazy ACEO’s Craze

So, I decided to try a few ACEO’s, I believe it stands forArt Card Edition Collectables. My mistaken assumption was that I could whip them off fairly quickly, thereby afford to sell them for much less on ebay. Well…let’s just say, that I could have finished three 6″x8″ paintings in the time it took to

Mother

Sorry, no posts in a long time. I’ve been working on an assignment for the children’s writing course that I’m studying. This is a new painting though, that I finished last night. I think it’s finished, anyways. I might put some kind of hanging in the background in really dark tones, I’m not sure yet.

Rhiannon and I

No new paintings to post today. I did get one finished last night, but not photographed. I’ll put it on tomorrow I guess. I just had a really great day with kids and friends today. It seems like I have so little time to just…do nothing. I mean, not cleaning, not cooking, not painting…just to