Ohio Farm

This painting sold on the Daily Paintworks Help Japan Challenge with six bids and sold to a purchaser in California.

Portrait of a Songdog

Donated one of these prints to the Daily Paintworks Help Japan Challenge. My last donation had six bids and sold to a person in California. I will post it next.

Yellow Maple

First photo of the Yellow Maple. Since studying on Johannes Vloothuis' Webinar on WetCanvas.com, I have learned so much and this is this week's homework. Do a tree with hard and soft edges. I am still attempting to do the value masses also. Difficult. I wanted to do the sky a light blue but it didn't go with the 3 value plan. I think I went to light in the tree too fast, so now there is MUCH paint on, and feel I need to let it sit for the night. How weird when you are painting....donuts, birds, squares and circles all appear and need to be corrected, and all the sky holes end up being the same shape. It is also very difficult to make the shapes all different especially on the outline of the tree. Another out of the box attempt for me.

Comments

Goodness, Sorry if I have not responded to your comments. I made the wrong assumption that they would notify me if there was a comment and today I saw one and checked the comment tab. I appreciate all comments and will respond in the future. Thank you so much.

Original photo

This was the original photo that I started with.

Webinar

I am learning a tremendous amount from the Wet Canvas Webinar. Abstract shapes, values, changing the view, being creative, simplifying, It will make a huge difference in my paintings.

3 value sketch

The original photo was similar to the top sketch. I chose to change the format, redesign the painting to the bottom value sketch.