Gray Poupon

Gray Poupon

7x10"  Oil on canvas  SOLD

Artist Note.

The wonderfully versatile artist

Ann Feldman 

came up with 

this weeks

The Daily Paintworks Challenge 

The Name Brand.

I love the Gray Poupon jar

and have painted it several times.

So well known it doesn't need 

more'than a suggestion 

of the name.

To see the other entries

here is a LINK

Have a great week. Think of

me and please send positive energy

as I work on clearing up 

my home studio ready

for the garage sale 

to beat all garage sales.

I have never had one before 

so if any of you have any

helpful tips, please pass them on.

Copy of a Mancini.

Copy of a Mancini

 6x8 oil on canvas $150.\

Purchase HERE

Artist Note

Carol Marine

came up with a great

Daily Paintworks Challenge

The idea was a fabulous one...

copy a painting you admire 

and  then do a painting 

using what you learned

details HERE

BUT... after I copied this one 

I found I had no heart to do another.

How can I ever match what this 

guy does - he is brilliant!

Took me forever to do this little urchin!

I saw this piece in a traveling show at the

El Paso Art Museum. 

I took the photo on the left.

 I eye-balled the proportions 

so there are  

several areas that are not quite right.

Doesn't matter - I learned a lot.

I have followed Antonio Mancini's 

work for years.

Sargent was an admirer and has

been quoted as saying,

Mancini

 was the worlds greatest artist

The great Richard Schmid has said

 he, too, was heavily

influenced by Mancini's work.

If you are not familiar with 

his paintings here is a link.

Antonio Mancini

LilyPond - Misty Morning

Lily Pond - Misty Morning

6x6in oil on canvas panel  $110.

Purchase HERE

Artist Note

Last weekend I was in 

Cloudcroft, NM.

Think of the name...

Cloud... croft. Land in the clouds!

I was lucky enough to enjoy

a misty morning and it was 

truly atmospheric and beautiful. 

So different from fierce colors 

and beauty the dry air creates

here in Las Cruces.

The Lodge Resort has a 

 large lily pond and I was able

to take many photos.

The colors were cool and muted 

with very soft edges.

(The Lodge also has a ghost - can you 

imagine her coming out of the mist!!)

The DPW Challenge has

The FOG Challenge this week

so hoping that the mist will substitute

because fat chance of me seeing 

fog in this neck of the woods.

I checked - there IS a 

difference between mist and fog 

even though they are both 

created with water droplets.

Thank you for visiting.

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Sunflowers and Polka-Dots

 Sunflowers and Polka-Dots

8x6in  oil on canvas panel  SOLD

This DPW Challenge is by the fabulous artist, Carol Marine.
The Polka-Dot Challenge . I was asked if these Challenges are
competitions. No, they are held weekly to stimulate and
share work with other artists. Anyone can submit to them.
They are fun and you see some really creative ideas
and  lovely paintings.

I had set my mind to paint something yellow today
so it was easy to place sunflowers into my neat, polka- dot jar.

Artist Note.

There was a request from Maga, on today's post asking what I had learned
about becoming more comfortable with using yellows when I did
my series of lemons.

First and foremost... never use white to lighten, only to mix the highlight.
I think that had been my main problem.

I used Holbein - Naples Yellow Italian to take the acid touch out of
 Cad Yellow Light - I had three brands of CYL in my box, trying to find one I liked
Richeson - Unbleached Titanium. (fabulous for lightening warm colors)
Windsor Newton -  Indian Yellow. The only brand I like for IY.
Windsor Newton - Cad Yellow deep.
Rembrandt - Transparent Oxide Brown.  Beautiful with the Indian Yellow
to reach darker shades, keeping them transparent
and adding a bit of Naples to move into
a lighter area before adding cadmium yellow