This is incredible!! Great work!
This is so beautiful. As a very poor student of the piano, I am mesmerized by someone who can play it so well.
oh my goodness, this is wonderful! thanks for sharing!!!
I told my self critic to go away. I don't need her for this process. I know that my paintings are not yet where I want them to be, but there is something there. I feel like I'm a vessel of nervous energy, but I can get it all out on the canvas. Right now, I am using a limited palate of just four colors. If anyone else is thinking about getting into portrait painting, I whole-heartedly suggest limiting your palate at first. I am working with student's acrylics, but I ordered some acrylics that are recommended by pros. These are supposed to stay wetter for longer. I tried starting with oils, but because I'm in a confined space, the smell was too much. I'm playing around right now with the idea of cool and warm colors and how they intermingle on surfaces.I didn't want to double-post, but I just posted a shot of Sarge I took a few minutes ago... I really ought to be taking more than a couple pictures before I'm sharing stuff as I'm still struggling to remember the math of all this photography stuff (and my eyesight isn't what it used to be) but I'm just excited to be able to be taking pictures at all. Anyway, as my only subject so far is my dog, there a new pic (and one from my other try-out of the camera a few days ago) in the "cute animal" thread.
I can't wait to take this thing outside and find somewhere nice to really get the hang of this, but at the moment my self-critic is just on vacation and I'm just thrilled to have a thing I love so much back in my life. Baby steps.
My inner critic has made me stop doing a lot for a very long time. I also had time limitations but now that my kids can do things like bathe themselves, I have some time to paint. I guess I would be more critical if it wasn't so much fun to sit down with paints and start. I'm enjoying the process a lot more than I did when I was younger. I'm enjoying the physical act of painting whereas, I think when I was younger, I was more interested in the outcome. I'm doing these paintings fast--about an hour to an hour and a half for each--and I am going into it with the expectation that all I am producing is quick sketches. When I took the gravity of making a finished piece, it really helped me relax and enjoy everything much more.
