Tag: Pattie

After 125 Sessions my latest painting is finished.

I almost never sign my paintings, but today I’ve signed this one and I think it’s important.

Socks have an interesting fuzzy texture to them and it takes a scumbling, dabbing stroke to get them right, a normal brush stroke will not

I’m pretty happy with that title, it’s not totally true, but close enough. Her right foot is the second to last I have to accomplish

There is so much meaningfulness with everything I do on this painting. It’s important that I get even the socks correct to the best of

I’m almost certain I’ve finished the wood floor except for the smaller shadows under her feet which I will do when I work on the

The shelving is done now I can focus on finishing the floor then the very last will be Pattie’s feet.

I did a few more lines of the shelving fronts today and I’m almost to the bottom. Tomorrow I may finish the shelving and the

As I’m painting the vertical fronts of the shelving I remember painting over them somewhat and thinking I would “fix it later”

We had a super long trip last night and didn’t get home till 2am so I’m painting a bit late in the day on Pattie’s

Now that I’m getting better at painting the wood grain I have to deal with another complexity, shadows cast upon that wood grain.

I’m getting the hang of a painting this wood texture without too much detail. Honestly I’m kinda feeling like I’m being lazy with it.

I wasn’t looking forward to the wood floor so I just dove right into it. Normally when I don’t like something it’s because I need

Working on the very bottom right shelf and a random shoe box, I’m not sure why it’s there.

I finished the harry potter books shelf today even though I’m now suffering from a cold…

I enjoy meticulously painting the spines of harry potter books on the shelf, a very important part of Patties life.

Another late day doing art, although I spent a lot of time earlier in the day stretching my canvas for the next painting.

Right after work today I had to shoot off to the mainland for a Dr appointment so I’m doing my art much later in the

After sanding and two more coats of gesso on my next painting I had to work on Pattie’s portrait with some extreme construction noise distracting

Most of the background on this painting has been a lesson in chroma and reducing its intensity.

I just spent a little time on painting the dishes today because I was putting many coats of gesso on a new painting.

I’m not working on two paintings, I’ve determined the next painting’s composition and I have started preparing its canvas.

A birthday present given a funny name by Pattie and one that has stuck fondly with us for many years.

I spent most of the day today traveling and waiting with errands on the mainland. As I write this I’m totally exhausted but happy that

I didn’t get much done on this painting today as I was doing a lot of preparation for my next portrait.

I’ve worked on this painting now for 100 sessions. Most of the session have been an hour or shorter but this is still the longest

I’ve started preparation for a new painting that I will work on in tandem with this painting. I hope to increase my motivation with variety.

Today was a shorter session as I need to run off to a friends house to take photos for another planned portrait. I now have

Another session with the top shelf. I’m working from left to right and at the end of the line is a bunch of elephant figurines.

I worked on more items at the top shelf today plus I went through over 400 photos taken of Patrick yesterday. I’m excited for the

The small mass of items at the top of the shelves includes fairies and a whole bunch of stuff that isn’t recognizable, at this point

I’m now working on a couple angles to the right of the tiny portraits. These will be much more indistinct and fuzzy than the portraits.

A photograph in a photograph, but so tiny that I have to spend several sessions getting every little tiny stroke/dot correct.

With today’s post I’ve finally caught up with all my posts after my vacation a week ago.

Even though the objects seem like detritus most have some history in Pattie’s life, today I’m painting tofu containers and fabric from Ireland.

For this session and many others I’ve moved to the top of the shelving unit and started with all the complex items stacked up there.

I can’t seem to bring myself to generalize any of these objects into broad strokes, I see much importance in every tiny thing.

I’m working on a section of the shelves that holds nothing but sea creatures, mostly mammals like a Beluga whale and dolphins.

I’m continuing my work on the top left shelf full of vegetable animals.

Today I’m working on the top left section of keepsakes which is a group of animals shaped like vegetables, or is it vegetables shaped like

We are back home from the cruise and I’m doing my art later in the day, it is good to be back home although I’m

It’s 5am Sunday and I’m working on my painting while my mind is racing with things I need to do before our trip, so I

She collected small colored sand castles when she was young. I remember seeing them in stores when I was much younger also.

I moved on to the fifth shelf out of 16 today and I’m trying to keep the colors and values the same through every session.

I spent the short session today painting a wizard figurine on one of the shelves in the background.

This painting has one goal and I make sure that everything I add to the painting is in service to that one goal.

For today’s session I finished painting the one figurine above and to the left. It wasn’t much but that part is done.

Just a little progress today on the painting. I only got a small area done but I’m happy with it’s quality and that is most