its wishy washy time again...

well nora and i challenged each other to try darker skin tones this week, on our wishy washy challenge, in painting friends!!..both our painting attempts lately, have been a bit weak in the dark value areas.. so we got a neat photo from wc.. called namibian girl.. offered by patrick hedges.. thank you patrick!!

we were going to try and do this in chas reid style.. (so much for that !!! LOL) this is my third attempt and might try again, but time was up for our challenge.. i used only three colors.. fu marine blue, quin burnt orange and a bit of perm. aliz crimson for jacket and lips...

it looks better on here, than in person!!! i like lots about it .. but i can also see room for improvement too!!

back to the painting easel!! tee hee .. have a good one!!

ps always open for critiques and suggestions.. thanks!!

replica of maynard dixon

thanks michelle, for all your hard work and the idea for this months challenge!! michelle has the blog following the masters!!http://followingthemasters.blogspot.com/

i saw quite a few that would be a kick to try, but ended up choosing this one.. this painting was originally painted by maynard dixon... who of course, i knew nothing about...DUH!!! but i enjoyed looking as his and others works, to try and decide what to paint.. so hopefully i even learned some thing!! thanks again michelle!!

first kiss!!

thanks to the windows of the word art blog, http://windowstothewordsart.blogspot.com/.. for offering this photo for a challenge..

as a mom.. the first thing i thought was, oh my goodness.. where is the soap to wash his sweet little mouth?? but i did enjoy painting him..

look at what extremes i will go to, to paint!!!??!!! LOL i go from zebras rear ends, to licking a piggies snout! think i need to try a rose or some thing soon, or they are going to take me away...

have a fun day and thanks for stopping by!!!

got ya' covered.. coming and going!!!

did this awhile back and had lots of fun with it...

in the first wc forum i was in, we had a safari.. the front was my entry~~~ later we got silly and decided to bring up the rear!! so..

I'll share.. bring a fork~~

nora and i challenged each other on painting friends... in our wishy washy team, to paint a dessert.. being i'm on a diet this was not the easiest thing to manage.. was hungry the whole darn time..

she did a wonderful cupcake, but then ate it.. argggghhhhhhh!!! mine was from a photo so i luckily wasn't tempted that way.. had fun doing this... as i love strawberry shortcake !! yummmmmm

got this photo from wc and cant find it now to give credit to the photographer.. but will keep looking, so i can say thanks...

no crying now...lol

going to go camping for a few days, just to check out the rv... its been awhile.. so not sure if we remember how to work everything..??? so taking it on a short trial run...

been busy packing and grabbing just the important necessities.. paint, water jug, brushes, paper sketch paper and pencils and camera.... then if room left, food and clothes and fishing supplies..lol see i do have my priorities right lol

this was a fun painting to do.., glazing techniques, for a 2 hour challenge on "painting friends" .. was happy how it came out, so no tears shed!!

wanted to stop in and say a quick hi... and bye!!! enjoy the rest of your week!! ;)

flowers and butterflies~~~

first of all thank you to peg allen for allowing us to try and paint her brothers wonderful photo.. i believe his name is roger ball .. so thanks to roger too!!

enjoyed doing this.. hadn't tried the centers of these flowers before, so was happy with how they turned out... i feel it needs some pizazz somewhere tho' .. but not sure where?? help???

ok i added the darks.. i actually thought they were darker when i was doing it!! LOL i used ALL your suggestions and hopefully it is better.. i know it definately pops the flowers more!! thanks for the help, you guys are great!!

poppies anyone??

Saw this new challenge offered by michelle.. http://followingthemasters.blogspot.com/

I thought ok, i can try this lol.. i hadn't painted flowers in awhile , as i been concentrating on portraits, so this was a fun .. however i realized as i was painting.. georgia okeefe's, red poppy.. that it appears it breaks so many rules i have tried to learn...

coi right in the middle..

instead of going past the edge or bringing it in a bit .. so as not to cause tension.. she has tension all over..

and the stem going off the page is centered also..

hmmmmm?? guess the "learn the rules, so you know when to break them" applies here... big time!! LOL

Waiting~~

Wow~~~ this one was a good stretch for me.. have been wanting to try folks with different skin tones and this gave me the push, to give er' a try!!!

i want to thank karin, for providing the photo and the challenge.. 'this painting was done from a photograph provided on the blog, Different Strokes From Different Folks, where artists are encouraged to paint or draw their own interpretations.'

also need to thank roger for the ideas on skin tone!!!

over all ,i'm pretty pleased with the painting.. except i got so excited about making the color sing on the face, i forgot about the features.. and they were kinda a last minute scramble.. sorry sir.. you got a mini face lift!! lol oh well there is always next time!!!

droopy

saw this darling puppy on http://laurenspaintpalette.blogspot.com/and went to look and found out it was part of a new challenge on, http://windowstothewords.blogspot.com/ looked at the other pups offered, but just fell in love with this little guy.. had so much fun painting him..hes such a cutie!! thanks to Maggie Mayer, for letting us use the wonderful photo!!