Painting #62: Hill Country. (Unfinished.) + Weekend update.

Like I couldn't post about my new dog. Also here's what I'm working on.

Painting #61: Carolina Marshes. (Finished.) + Weekend Update.

I feel like this should be on my truck. But I'm not sure what kind of guy I'd attract with that.

This is a tiny painting - it's an 8x10. I'm not really crazy about it because painting water is freaking hard but I wanted to practice depth, water, different colors, using different mixed media. Doing tiny practice paintings seems like a better idea than using a bunch of paint on a huge canvas and hating it. But I'm really enjoying working with pallet knives. 

So I met a new friend and she's pretty awesome and gave me these canvases for free! It's hard to tell in the picture but they are both huge. The biggie is like 30somthingx20something. And the skinny one is 10somethingx20something. And I know exactly what I want to do with both of them. Mountains have been something I've been obsessed with lately in my paintings so that's what you'll be seeing. I started the skinny one last night. 

Painting #61: Carolina Marshes. (Unfinished)

Just need to work on the water a bit.

Charleston Downtown Library Gallery.

The downtown Charleston Library has a public and free art gallery that shows a new, local artist every month. It's a really neat idea because they open up 12 slots every year for anybody in town to showcase their art - you just have to be chosen of course. The library seems to choose up and comers - and it's tempting to enter in next year for a chance to show my own art. Here was this month's artist.

I think the first painting is my favorite. She used resin and acrylic which I so want to try but first I need to learn how to use it. Resin gives paintings a three dimensional appearance because you layer paint on resin on paint, etc, etc.

There was a huge rainbow over the bridge last week - and about fifteen minutes later it started raining like crazy. I've seen some spectacular storms lately!

I am also working on something and maybe I'll show a little sneak peak this weekend!

Asheville Adventure.

This past weekend I went to Asheville and it was great to finally see the city I've heard so much about. Luckily there was an art festival downtown and I was influenced by a lot of amazing talent. (So much so I forgot to take any pictures.) One thing I noticed about the artists I saw is they all seemed to have kind of a thesis statement to the art - a clear purpose, a common theme, a destination. I realized that's something I need to work on - I need to have a constant message or idea.

I could honestly live in Asheville - I feel like there is a reason I always paint mountains.

Random Sullivan's Island Picture