This painting was painted live at an event called FLOW, "For The Love of Water". The event was a weekend seminar/workshop thing to raise awareness of the drought in Texas. I was asked to paint live at their "quick draw" auction. I did. Here it is. It was a blast!
The artist were asked to paint their love of water. I absolutely love water, of course. And I love color. High Tide is all about the emotion and life around water. Without it we die. Water is fluid color, excitement, movement, reflections and collections of shapes. My watery painting is called High Tide because I love the ocean, and all the interesting stuff that washes up with the tide onto the beach.
Hi art lovers!
Well, here it is. My first painting-a-day! I painted it one day and then that was it. At least I know I can! I think I'll start a fad called a-painting-somedays. Thank you Carol Marine for showing me how its done. I have studied her work for about 6 months now and I've learned so much from her blog, site and demos. I've read everything she wrote about painting technique and then did these apples. I also did some pears but didn't finish painting them because I had to take care of my son Matthew. On my wish list is an actual Carol Marine work shop somewhere in Central Texas.
I loved painting this. I call it "out casts" because I just threw them on the table and painted them where they landed. I did turn one up though. I wanted them to look like they were marching off to jump in a pie. I was hungry. I painted fast, working from a quick pencil sketch while squinting at my still life. I used evening sunlight. This is acrylic on a 12"x12" gallery wrapped canvas. I had to use acrylic because of time and my studio is in the living room at the moment. One day I will have a real studio again. Until then I paint to the sound of "Super Smash Brothers" as it pounds out from my sons Wii - RIGHT behind me - and folding clothes on the couch in between brush washings. Sounds romantic, huh?
Rufio the dog is now a $700 dog. The vet told us to keep him calm for 4 weeks. Ha, like that's gonna happen. After 5 recent trips to the doc and another new xray he is hopefully on the mend. His foot may face a new direction, but at least he'll be in college with his owner. It's been like having a toddler around the house. We've had to baby proof and buy new shoes. Oh well, he's so cute. Here he is. Now back to art... again.
