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Holstein Portrait

This post is a long time coming.

This month I intended to make four paintings at least, of a theme I called “the country life”.

While I have tried to use any spare moments to paint, I found myself doing a myriad of other things, meaning I’m way behind.

The beginning of the month was taken up with [...]

gathering inspiration

Mondays are for errands… but I managed to get some inspiration amidst the mundane.
I drove for a couple hours, in probably a 12-mile radius from our house. Unfortunately, it got close to noon, so it was just getting too bright, and I was getting less of the beautiful morning light, but I managed to [...]

What’s your favorite farm animal?

It’s October and I am in the beginning stages of the October project – “the country life”.
I took a few minutes today to drive around and get some pictures of farms and animals nearby.
These will serve as inspiration or foundations, for the ink and watercolor paintings I will be doing.
I’m not sure I hit the [...]

october project launch

It’s October. Thank you to all you who gave me suggestions.
Unfortunately, because of a bad migraine, I wasn’t able to actually start on anything today.
However, I was able to make up my mind as to what I wanted to do for the month.
The overwhelming favorite, based on people who responded, was my ink and [...]