Day 1: Bobcat

Day one!  Just under the deadline, too.   Happy with this handsome fella.  He's only 3x3" and honestly... probably about the same amount of work as if I'd done him three times that size.  I'm using this 30 days of painting as an excuse to use up some of my tinier art materials, though.

29 more to go!

30 Paintings in 30 Days

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I'M SO READY!  Starts September 1st, oh no, need to buy some more inking brushes.  It is the worst. A terrible tragedy that I must shop for art supplies. It's totally not what I want to be doing all the time.

(Also, if you don't follow my work on tumblr, you should!  hootbark.tumblr.com )

Pink Flamingo!

Throwback Thursday!

So much pink!  Pretty bird on wood.  Hello, flamingo.  Actually was purchased by another artist, Ursula Vernon, at a convention/show we were both at.  I had a little bit of a moment when that happened, because her work is so awesome.

Lighthouse

SO.  I made the attempt last year to make this a teachable painting.  

That was a mistake, it was way too complicated.

Still!  It's Summery  

Lighthouse, Presque Isle. 

Angry Owl

Ah, this guy!  One of my favorite pieces.  On a really beefy canvas, too.  

I need to handmake more canvases from brick moulding, because it made for some amazing surfaces to work on. 

Angry Owl

10x18"

SOLD

Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday!

Oh man, this is an oldie but a goodie... I do miss painting on wood, but this sort of thing tended to be too small, and end up with a lot of little detail.  I like working bigger these days. I think this one was around 9x12".

Pretty Birds

I've been going through my older artwork as I set up a new studio space, and I found these photos.  

At the time I painted these, I was living in Erie, PA.  I do like the style of these, and I think I could learn from them and make new pieces in a similar style.  They're mixed media, watercolor, acrylic, and colored pencil.  While I like some of the intricate details, I also like my more recent, larger pieces that have a touch more spontaneity and motion to them.