Monday, January 24, 2011

Paintings from 2010

I started experimenting with acrylics last year.  Painting is a whole different ballgame from pencil or charcoal.  It's messy and hard to control and time-consuming, at least for a pathetic beginner like me, but I love it!  These were done prior to the 1000 paintings idea so I won't count them toward that number.   But here they are!

This is the rough draft of a painting I did for my brother.  I did his on a smaller, wrapped canvas.  The style of the background sparked my interest in sponge paintings.


This painting was done from a set that included the paints and a how-to booklet.  I feel a little like a cheater when working on these kind of projects, but it was a great tool to learn how to mix colors, paint in layers, etc.  Gotta learn somehow!  And I always end up doing things my own way anyhow.  Maybe I don't follow directions that well.

This is a painting of a B-2 bomber.  My dad works for the company that builds them-Northrup Grumman-andI thought it'd be fun to give it a whirl.  It is also the first landscape I've ever painted...pretty obvious, huh?


I wanted to paint some calla lilies, I fell in love with them when picking out flowers for my wedding.  I haven't finished this by a long shot - I'm adding a couple more flowers and hopefully some holly, stephanotis, etc. that made up our Christmas wedding floral arrangement.

2 comments:

  1. Where do you keep the painting of that house? That's awesome! Don't think I've ever seen it.

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  2. The house one is here, sitting in our study. We don't have it hanging anywhere. If you'd like it, you can have it. I do like it a lot.

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