Another on birds. This time with American Avocet. Yet again I seem to have three birds. One in the front and two in the back. I guess I like that composition. This was also done on the tea stained paper. I had two attempts on this painting. This first one had some issues with beaks.
I noticed when I was preparing for Open Studios that I had a lot of paintings featuring flowers. I do love other aspects of nature. I think I need to take a break from flowers (on purpose) and focus on some other areas. I love birds. These black necked stilts are shorebirds. I used to [...]
Mother’s day at Filoli, is a tradition for me. I go without my children or my husband. It is a lovely day, filled with flowers and beautiful scenery. We left to get there early and missed a lot of the crowd. I was able to get lots of good photos. Some better than others of [...]
You can see I started a second time on the wisteria. This time I went pretty slow. I am stopping here. The flowers are very light right now. They probably need one more layer. The leaves are shaping up well.
I had some prep to do today. I have fallen behind in getting ready for some of my lessons, so today I had to catch up. I am preparing for a gong-bi painting that we will be starting at Bowman. The painting is of a woman in a kimono in front of a moon window [...]
One of the parts that is supposed to separate Silicon Valley Open Studios from other Art Festivals and the like, is that you can see the process of the artist. So I hauled my supplies and set up to paint. On Saturday I started working on a Gong Bi (detail) style painting of some shells. [...]
Well Silicon Valley Open Studios for Palo Alto, Mountain View, and the central valley is now over! Whew! It was a hot sunny day. The heat did get to me, but it’s hard to be unhappy when there is not a cloud in the sky and it is perfectly blue! It was great to be [...]
Another on birds. This time with American Avocet. Yet again I seem to have three birds. One in the front and two in the back. I guess I like that composition. This was also done on the tea stained paper. I had two attempts on this painting. This first one had some issues with beaks.
I noticed when I was preparing for Open Studios that I had a lot of paintings featuring flowers. I do love other aspects of nature. I think I need to take a break from flowers (on purpose) and focus on some other areas. I love birds. These black necked stilts are shorebirds. I used to [...]
Mother’s day at Filoli, is a tradition for me. I go without my children or my husband. It is a lovely day, filled with flowers and beautiful scenery. We left to get there early and missed a lot of the crowd. I was able to get lots of good photos. Some better than others of [...]
Well this morning I woke up and looked at my painting and decided the petals did not need another layer. I like the light color of the petals. They make them look so delicate. I really love it when I reach the point that flower petals look that way. For me that reminds me of [...]
You can see I started a second time on the wisteria. This time I went pretty slow. I am stopping here. The flowers are very light right now. They probably need one more layer. The leaves are shaping up well.
