Showing posts with label painting journey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painting journey. Show all posts

Friday, July 17, 2026

Painting Evolution

 In order to have a finished painting - usually the process for me involves several previous paintings. 

For instance a house:








A window or outside the house:








Outside building (still needs improvement)


Some of these are copies of pictures, some are copies with my twist, and some are just paintings from my head. But almost always there are several before pictures and some okay pictures and some good ones.

I learn from the mistakes I make or mistakes I see in the final product. 

It also means I have a boatload of paintings just hanging around my house. And I’m not sure what to do with most of them. 

Thoughts?

Thursday, January 27, 2022

Paintings


 So far this year, I've been enjoying painting with watercolors (mostly) but sometimes acrylic. I've been using pins from Pinterest for ideas and for a little something different.


This is a card - it's supposed to be a path through lavender. Does it come through?

I had a lot of left over brown one day. This is a dock and water. I might paint some flip-flops on the dock.

This is the first new one. I've always wanted to paint mountains. But I didn't read the directions all the way through first and therefore it's not perfect. But it looks pretty good. 


This was something wildly different for me. 

Extra paint from the previous painting turned into this Valentine.


Starry Night with trees. I loved how the stars came out.


Combo mountain and stars painting. 

Last weekend's painting from a photo of a place in New Hampshire we traveled to last year. 


This one was updated with grass on the hill, the tree, and the swing. Looking at it now, the tree looks a little lonely. 

This one was for a paint night workshop for the library.  It was a fun night. 

And that's what I've been working on while the world is still on fire. Each piece from start to finish takes about an hour. Drying happens during that time. The paper pieces are 7 by 5 inches. I took a few classes in high school and college, but I've never really worked much with watercolors. I thought I didn't like them. And then I learned a little patience goes a long way!