Keep or toss?

I will attempt more of this painting but am highly dissatisfied with it. I used an old panel that was painted with housepaint making it very slick. I will not use that again as the paint does not stick. I will see if things change once it dries.I think if I cropped it making it an 8x8 taking two inches of the right side the composition would be better, also. I wanted to do a foggy scene. I watch Johannes Vloothaus do the painting on his workshop online Saturday. I have studied with him for four years and he is one of the best teachers I have found. Check out his site, http://www.Improvemypaintings.com. His workshops are inexpensive and they are scheduled from 1-5pm and sometimes last until 7pm as he has so much to teach. He has free videos occasionally.
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I did work on this painting to keep the large tree from being so round at the top. There is still a roundness! I should wipe out the left branch at the top. I did raise the yellow tree next to it so that the trees were not at the same height and set the other tall tree more in the background.
On Thursday I went to Malabar Farm to meet with the Ohio Plein Air Society painters from our area. It was raining but we talked about painting places we want to go to and four painters did stay and painted from the porch. We will meet again at Malabar next thursday as it qualifies as a park and we are all planning on entering a show requiring paintings of parks in Ohio.
I did start to work at Kingwood Center Gardens on Saturday and will be working 3 days a week so am hoping to stick to my schedule and paint as much as I can.
Happy Spring. Spring is trying to come in but Winter is pushing her out! Yesterday it rained, hailed, snowed and had terrible wind. The combination toppled a tree in Kingwood wiping out the fence around the duck pond. No birds were harmed.
To you artists out there keep painting...I have some projects in mind that are more inspirational than the boat scene!

Easter Sunday paintings

Hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend. The weather was sunny and warm in Ohio. It has been a busy week. I have been trying to follow a schedule. I continue to tweak the schedule to find time to paint. Life manages to get in the way frequently. Sweeper break and need fixed, the new weedeater needed put together and Tosca wants to go out more often because there is a rabbit that has been staying in the yard that she likes to chase. She does stop chasing before she catches it. I think she lives under the deck and I think I saw two last night so I expect baby bunnies might happen!
I did manage to work on two 11x14 canvas boards from Johannes Vloothaus last lessons. He did the trees scene in oils and the waterfall in pastel, mostly pan pastels. I am getting a set of 20 soon from an artist friend who doesn't care for them. I will probably use them on top of watercolor.
I need to change the round shape of the large tree as it is too round so will post the changes next week. It is supposed to storm and rain so that means inside work. I am trying to get things ready as I go back to work at Kingwood Center Gardens in the ticket booth on April 2nd. Hopefully my schedule will work so that I can get more painting done and I want to get my newsletter done this week also. I also have sold 16 prints of the Longhorn on Fine Art America!

The photo is not good. Fine Art America now does prints,pillows,duvets, shower curtains and cell phone covers of the paintins. I think I will give some pillows as gifts. Have a great week!
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Promises!

I promise I will post weekly. I have set a schedule for myself, to paint, to post, to update! I have not done well at painting and all the rest and will do so in the future! So if you are coming here due to all my updating on my sites, just know within a day I will have a new post here. Thanks for coming and following me. I also have been doing agility with my Aussie, Tosca and will continue to work that into my schedule. Happy Spring! It flurried and was 29 degrees here in Ohio and is only 33 at 5pm. Tosca is trying to be patient waiting for her dinner so will go fix hers and mine!

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#2 of thirty, Sailor's Delight

This is a 5x7 oil Concentrating on skies. At least I am caught up so far. Thought I would use up the paint on the palette from #1 painting which is 11x14 oil named "Surveillance"

#1 of the 30 paintings in 30 days challenge

This will get me started again! It is a commission and now is finished. My theme this month is going to be mainly skies. So now that #1 is done I need to go work on #2 since this is the second of January.

Rose Mallow #2 demo and studio

I am loving my picture of Guy Dennis's Prairie Pond and the Rose Mallows and chose to paint it as a demo for the Portrait Club of Mid-Ohio last Monday evening. We originally planned it a week ago but the weather was so bad that it was postponed until this past Monday. Incredibly since I had done and 8x10 of it the two weeks before at a class in my home I got this demo done in an hour and 45 minutes! Next month I have another demo talking about plein air painting with another artist who will demo in pastel and I will do the same painting in oil. Time is a factor so we have both chosen to work with this same painting.
The snow and cold has been limiting but I am getting much done. Spent all last week cleaning my studio. I can now find things! All the watercolor things are together, as is the oils, the pastels. This old house doesn't have much closet space so I have to make due with bought sets of drawers, and cupboards.Luckily I have patio doors with North light. I still have some drawers to go through. This is my dining room turned studio.My table has two leaves that pulled out I can get four students around for a class. I have a small round table in my living room that serves as a dining table. I have gone through my bookcases and weeded out a lot of books , art , gardening, etc that will be given away.

Still seems cluttered and I should limit my self to one medium but unable.
At any rate, the next thing to do is work on my websites, http://www.judy-fischer-walton.artistwebsites.com and http://www.judyfischerwaltonfineart.weebly.com. then my newsletter for February. Plus PAINT. Sorry this weather is not inspiring me to plein air paint so I need to get inspired by some photographs!

Rose Mallows and Golden Morning oil demos

These two 8x10 oils were done in my home classes as demos.I do need to photo better but so hard to do with this weather. Snow, snow and cold. Just can't go out on my porch or deck so can't upload to my newsletter or my websites.

I have been taking advantage of being inside and have been cleaning and decluttering. This week it will be the dining room which is my studio. It has stacks of stuff which needs to be sorted. Today I went through my bookcase and weeded out alot of books, including art books. My daughter will get first choice then my art friends, then Goodwill. I feel good about this weeding out and am sure once the studio gets done I will feel more like painting.