Still Painting

I'm still working on this one.  This landscape painting is definitely challenging (I think I'm getting lost in the clouds), but after adding some sharp lines to the river and clouds, I am getting more comfortable with it.  I'm also working on another one simultaneously.  My goal is to have them both done by Monday.  Then I will be working on finishing up some other ones before the year ends and doing a review of my paintings in 2010, many of which I have never posted.  Stay tuned!

Studio Session- New Painting, Potomac River Skyscape

Here is a new painting I started last night on a large toned canvas.  I am using photographs I took recently (while in the passenger's seat) of the Potomac River looking at Washington DC.  The painting is going well so far, but I'm obviously not done yet.  I worked really fast, probably due to the fact that I had an unusual amount of coffee for that time of night for me.  Usually I work in the morning, so I needed help painting at night.

I am thinking about "passages" while painting this one, especially as I complete it.  I want to make sure the blue sky can flow through the clouds easily so it does not get caught in them and that the viewer has a place where they can "enter" the painting.

New Painting: Skyscape from the Highway

Here is the painting I did this week, still working on a title.  This landscape painting is inspired by photos I took while driving (I know, it's a bad habit...) on 295 to see my sister a few weeks ago.  The clouds were so beautiful all along the way I just couldn't help but stare at them the whole way to Baltimore.  I always feel like the sky is talking to me, urging me to paint it.  It seems to automatically arrange itself in such a perfect composition when I happen to be looking at it.  A lot of the time it is when I am driving, so I always pray for traffic when it is especially beautiful so I can stop and stare.  And maybe take some pictures for later...

Recent Happenings

Sunset Over the Rooftops, Portsmouth, 2009, oil
Recent painting exhibited in Celebrating Movement

I just bought a new camera and have lots of new work to show.  This week, I had a small painting of mine in a show, "Celebrating Movement" at The Del Ray Artisans Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia.  The show just ended Sunday, but I found out my painting sold (my first!).  November 2010 I had the privilege of participating in another show, "Blue", also at the DRA, and I painted 3 large paintings.  I just finished one this past Monday and I am feeling really good about them.  I can feel myself developing as an artist, really finding my niche.  You will see the difference in my style when I put up photographs of my paintings in the next few days.  Thanks for  reading!