I have been grabbing a few hours now and then to practice my oil painting. Ta Da! I'm Watching You is finished. The subject is my cat, Shadow who often pretends to be sleeping but still has one eye open. He used to have one white whisker that looked pretty funny but now he has a few on each side, making his portrait more balanced. The painting is 3 _ 4 so I had to cut and fit my own frame…
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Somebody better call the Geneva Convention, there is a painting being tortured. Obviously overworked, but what a blast! Joyce's book has been christened, with paint, but not so badly I can't still read it. The second is a painting in progress of my cat on the windowsill. I'm making observations as I go because I have never worked with oils before. I'm not really frustrated because I'm having so much fun and I can always paint over them…
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Big Art, Small Canvas
I have always wanted to be a painter. I come from a family of painters, but sadly painting was never my forte. I struggled with it in art school but I didn't care, I was a graphic design major, just about to set the advertising world on fire.
Thirty years later, I still do some graphic design but I have this persistent dream of painting. I saw a book on the artid site by artist Joyce Washor titled, Big Art, Small Canvas. Joyce works on 3 _ 4 panels and creates paintings that are indeed big art. I had always been attracted to her style of painting and the format seemed like it would be good for a beginner. There is no sense in wasting 16 _ 20 canvases on bad paintings, of which I was sure I would make many.…
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