Category: Painting A Day

  • Jack o’ lantern Day Four

    Day four. I’m starting to regret choosing these panels for this project. They are very slick and going over areas pulls up more paint than it puts down. I feel like there is a trick I’m missing with these thing. I am considering trying different paint to see if that’s the problem. It’s been a…

  • Jack o’ lantern Day 3

    Day three. I am having a hard time not picking up all the paint when I lay a new brush stroke down. The blue stays down fine, maybe it’s the orange I’m using. Like most things these are way prettier in my head, and they are nowhere near the look of the old painting I…

  • Jack o’ lantern day 2

    Day two’s jack o’ lantern. I’m using ampersand’s gessoboard. I am having hard time adjusting to how slick these boards are. I’ve been trying stiff brushes, soft brushes, no medium, some medium, and i still haven’t found the right combo for this paint and these panels. See you tomorrow.

  • Jack o’ lanterns

    Thirty-one Jack o’ lanterns in thirty-one days In an effort to get back into oil painting I will be painting everyday during the month of October. The idea is to make everyone of these paintings the same, but we’ll see what they look like at the end of the month. See you tomorrow.

  • Painting #25

    This one was like pulling teeth. I wiped the first painting and painted over it. I’m not really digging my brushes right now. I need to find brushes I can control better, or practice more.

  • Painting #24

    Moving on to bees.

  • Painting #23

    Another apple, probably the last one.

  • Painting #22

    Another apple.

  • Painting #21

    Another apple on carton. I’m really liking using these panels over canvas. for sale  

  • Painting #20

    Another apple on carton.