Day 80

Well, I might be done and I might not....

This is what I want to be able to do and yet I feel so uncomfortable. Not my happy colors, not my happy, fluffy scenes, I just have to keep practicing.

If you turn it this way it could be a funky new cell phone.

Day 79

Dogs, Dogs, Dogs

I'm having a blast painting dogs. First of all they are all so cute, second I think I am getting better at it. Tomorrow it's Lulu. And people send such great photos, I love this guy with his tongue hanging out. Fun!

Day 78

D & E

My sister's wedding. She asked me to do this little painting of her and her beloved. So here it is.

Day 77

Lemons

My friend liked the oranges that I did and said, "now I need you to do lemons for me." So here you are Kelli, enjoy!

Lemon to infinity

One step away from a lemondrop

Day 76

Still working on the big painting

Jack helped me with this design. I swear I am going to finish this painting this week, I have 5 days to do it.

Day 75

Something New (to me)

When I was a little girl I would look at things and draw or paint them. Well, that is what I did this morning, it didn't just spring from my brain all crisp and ready. I keep asking the question, "how do they do that?" Sometimes to figure it out, I have to try to do it too. I was captivated by the colors and shapes. I realized my brain couldn't cope with not knowing what the what the white/grey thing in the backround was. Is it an elephant? Is it a man's shirt? I don't know, mine ended up looking like a jacket with floating beachballs, but I don't think it was really anything. It's interesting how our brains process. Mine seems to want to identify things. A spill on the table, cracked flooring in a bathroom stall, the stones in a fireplace all turn into lions, wolves or a woman screaming. I can't stop seeing things in things, maybe I'll never be able to do that "modern" painting that's all deep and meaningful. Oh well, I still have 296 days to try.

Day 74

Belle

Day 73

Roman

A friend asked me to do her dog, so I did. I don't know what she thinks of him yet. If you have a dog you want me to take a try at send me an email with a photo and I will use it for my daily work and post it on my blog, it would be fun to try. campstudios@gmail.com

Day 72

Tandy

Still working on Dogs because it is so fun. Here is a Tandy redo, she is looking more like herself, might have to do her again. I wonder, if you know the personality does it make it harder to capture the look?

Day 71

Jack

Hey, that kinda looks like little Jack Horner...

I did this this morning after getting home on the red eye at 6am

Days 68, 69 & 70 Surprise Trip to Wenatchee

My three sibs and me decided to surprise my dad for his 70th birthday this year and what a surprise it was. We had a fabulous weekend in Wenatchee, WA, and I stayed true to my commitment to paint something everyday (even tho we got in at 3 am).

Climbing Fairy Day 70

Family Portrait Day 69

Dad, Mom, Me, Stephanie, Mark and Elizabeth

There we are in real in Leavenworth where we had my Dad's birthday dinner

Crabcake 2 Day 68

I got up not too long after I went to bed and painted this little cake for my dad, who's not a crab at all.

Day 67

Fat Tandy Gone Bad

But still a little cute. Of course the real Tandy requires a redo, but this painting does it's job and makes me smile.

Day 66

Gibbs

I saw this guy on my friend's facebook page and he was just begging to be one of my daily studies. I don't think I did him justice. Boy, that pup was cute.

Day 65

Mark's Dog Leonard

I am either going to make a card or frame this for my brother's birthday.

Day 64

Why Not?

I just wondered what if would look like if I did it in the same color way as the oranges I liked so much. I popped a little Eiffel Tower in to remind me of Paris and the name of the woman who asked the question and lived into it. Why not? What could I do if.......

Day 63

Coco at Christmas

Day 62

Baby Fairy

She is out of my book, she also appears on my May calendar page of 2012 with many other little fairies. One day I wondered what baby fairies would look like, I suspected they would wear as few clothes as possible, be unencumbered and free to frolic. I don't think the babies would have very many fairy duties to maintain.

Day 61

Oranges

I drove down to Iowa the other day and I forgot my regular medium to mix with the paints, I did bring my gloss medium and so I have had to use that and water. My paintings have been turning out differently, definitely more glossy.

Day 60

Pourquoi Pas?

A couple of years ago I read "The Gospel according to Coco Chanel" and wrote down some things she said that I liked. And one of the things she said and lived by was "Pourquoi Pas?" Why not. I think those two words speak volumes about how we live our lives. How we contain ourselves and hold ourselves back. I was always going to make those words a little prettier than they were in my journal to remind myself to put myself out there.

Day 59

Still working.....

Day 58

Candy Pink & Orange

I really liked the pink and orange pattern I did the other day and decided it would be the first design I would do on a wood panel. I think it is really cool and again, quite happy.

This is what the panel box looks like:

I purposely didn't paint to the edge

Day 57

Cherry Tree

My sister at her surprise party. She loved it!

Day 56

Still Working......

Day 55

Am I doomed to a life of painting cute little fluffy lambs?

(even though cute fluffy lambs are my fav)

Still working on the "abstract" painting. This is where is hurts, art exposure before it's fully developed (or the fact that I didn't have time to paint anything else to put on the blog in it's place).

Why is this so hard? There seems to be no rhyme or reason with abstract, but in reality it has to be thought out and crafted. Fluffy lambs might be easier to work with because you know what you have. Trying to evoke an emotion with a combo of color, is hard, at least for me, oh, and I want that emotion to be, "Wow! I love that, it makes me feel happy." So far, not so much happiness in my camp.

This makes me happy, and it is just the board I use to put my paintings on. It also makes me mad because there was no thought put into this recycled cardboard backing and it looks cuter than what I spent hours on. Do I need to relax and loosen up, drink some absinthe (which is out of the question since I am on an all natural cleanse, sans alcohol) or do I need to plan and draw and calculate?

I am going to get this, I promise, even if I have to do abstract lambs, it might take me the rest of the year. Or maybe I won't.

Day 54

Trying something new

I'm still working on the painting for the room. I have the backround, I changed the subject matter and now have to do something else and I am not sure what that is.

Day 53

Girl in the Pink Skirt

My sister, Elizabeth inspired this pose, with the pouty face.

Day 52

C

Close, but I don't know if it is quite right? Still thinking about it. I have to change my mode tomorrow and do something totally different than what I have been working on the last few days. I wonder what that will be.....

This weekend has been a total challenge for me. Then this morning I woke up with an earache and then I had my eyes dilated and I couldn't see for the whole block of time I was going to do extra painting. Anyways, this is the canvas I showed on day 50 and was really disappointed with, I like it now but feel it needs to go one step farther, and because of all the hours I have spent in reworking , I am a little nervous to do anything else. The more I look at it the more I like it just the way it is......maybe it's done?