Day Five 01/05/16 Thirty Paintings in 30 Days Challenge

Day Four 01/04/16 Thirty Paintings in 30 Days Challenge

Today I painted a picture of a photograph I took while at Indian Pass. My sister and I were attending the 2015 Forgotten Coast Plein Air Event. It has been our tradition to go to this incredible event each year and make it our little vacation away from our hectic lives.

We were down on the beach enjoying the end of the day and reflecting on what we had experienced so far at the Event. Earlier in the day we were at Michele Byrne's demo on "How to Put People in your Paintings."  We were very interested in learning this and trying it out.

The sunset was beautiful that night. People were walking on the beach. We decided to try what we learned, so we started taking pictures. This is my attempt to put people in my paintings.

Day Three 01/03/16 Thirty Paintings in 30 Days Challenge

The painting I painted today was taken very near where I live.  My husband and I were out on our kayaks one afternoon enjoying the end of a day. He had taken off in one direction to fish and I went to this area to take some pictures. I knew as soon as I saw this spot, I wanted to paint it. I painted it first on a 12x12 canvas at a workshop a couple of months ago.   I painted it again on a much larger canvas at my art class and today in my home studio on an 8x10. All three paintings are so different. I love that I remember everything about that day.  I hope it shows in my rendering.

Day Two 01/02/16. Thirty Paintings in 30 Days Challenge

New Year's Day 2016

I started my New Year painting. I owe this to Leslie Byrd Saeta. I accepted her challenge to paint daily for a month. Usually I would be taking down Christmas decorations, cleaning, cooking and doing other chores and I would not get to painting.
I really have not gotten into a habit of painting at home. I have a place to paint, but it has not been my  practice to paint here much. I am going to change that this year.  I spent some time last week rearranging my home studio, I cleaned it out and set it up so it will work. And now I love being there. I get that feeling. The feeling to paint! I get inspired, I get excited. I am focused, I have purpose. It's going to be a good year. I just know it.

New Year 2016

I entered Leslie Byrd Saeta's Art Challenge to try to paint everyday for 30 days. I posted my first painting. I have never uploaded a picture to a link and labeled it wrong. Oh well. Life goes on. Maybe tomorrow I will get that part right. I guess you need to put the name of your painting in the "label spot".

Anyway I am happy that I painted! 

Happy New Year! 

Day One 01/01/16. Thirty Paintings in 30 Days Challenge