Day 30; Barking Sands Sky

6x6

acrylic on gessoed panel

I woke up early this morning thinking today was the day we put together our collage for the "30 in 30" challenge. Not true, tomorrow that will be the case. I had to hustle a subject that I thought I could do before work. I had this in my iPad and I think my friend Diane sent it to me. This is probably my most favorite beach in Hawaii. Its on Kauai, on the west side...sand for days. That is Niihau in the distance. I would classify this as a study, not good enough for prime time. There is an artist, actually she is my cousin by marriage, who does fantastic skies with encaustics. Check out Kari's work at www.daisysky.com. She also did the "30 in 30" challenge.

Grandma's Values

6x6

gessoed panel

Yet another cutesy title for Stanley to harass me on. It will make for good conversation in our next class. This is my grandma, Eva Bealer. After painting Lincoln yesterday, I remembered that my uncle had e-mailed me this picture of her. She was a hard working woman who had 7 children, most of whom started off in life speaking German. BTW, that is why my name is spelled how it is...using the german spelling for "Kathy". Anyway before going off on too long of a tangent here, I think of this as a 2 value painting. There are some midtones that define features but they are a slight shift. As I stand back away from the picture that is what I see. I could paint on this more, as  I see several corrections but I promised myself I would get to work at a normal start time.

Day 29 for the "30 in 30" Challenge

Lincoln's Values

6x6

acrylic on panel

I can hear my instructor Stanley saying to me "No cutesy titles allowed". I couldn't help myself Stanley. As I was painting this, besides hearing my own voice saying this is too dark or that shape is off...I was thinking, here is a man who really didn't have the time or didn't care about smoothing down his hair or making his tie straight. He had more important things to attend to.

Day 28 in the "30 in 30" Challenge

Also posted in "The Lincoln Challenge" on the DPW site.

Snowscape

6x6

gessoed panel

I finished this, this morning before heading off to work. This is for the DPW challenge "The Snow Challenge". I put the moon in because I felt like the sky needed something. I am not sure it works on not? Any opinions? I didn't want it to detract from the landscape but at the same time I wanted to add some interest up there. I had fun painting the blue shadows.

 

Oh, and BTW, it is Day 27 in the "30 in 30" Challenge.

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Red Toned Horse

6x6

acrylic on panel

Today's inspiration comes from my niece Aimee. She runs a pet care business and does photography. Can you imagine how lucky I am? This is from one of her photos.

Today is Day 26 of the "30 in 30" challenge. I won't guarantee that I will have 4 more paintings by the 30th but I will be painting...we'll see.

Greta is Blue

6x6

acrylic on cradled panel

I wasn't sure what I wanted to paint today, so I panned through the older challenges on the DPW site and found this one..."The Limited Movie Star Challenge". As instructed, I used Manganese Blue with some purple and ultra marine blue for darker value shifts. Thank you for visiting, unlike Greta "I don't want to be alone, I just don't want to be alone".

 

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A Cat of a Different Color

6x6

acrylic on cradled panel

This is my submission for the DPW's "Creative Color" challenge created by Patti Vincent. I love purple. This was created by using ultramarine blue, quinacridone magenta, indian yellow and titanium white. This is also my submission for the day 24 in the "30 in 30" challenge.

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