Today I paint Hollyhocks

Porch Hollyhocks

About This Painting: Today's daily painting is Hollyhocks. It is cold and gloomy here on this last day of October in Michigan so I decided to bring back summer with some cheerful Hollyhocks. I hope this warms you up a little.

Porch Hollyhocks
9x12 watercolor on 200 lb cold pressed watercolor paper

Media: watercolor

Size: 12 in X 9 in (30.5 cm X 22.9 cm)

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Change of Color

Change of Color

About This Painting: We are having a real change of color today as the sleet covers everything with ice. I ran out this morning and move pots of flowers into the garage.

 I spent 10 hours last night cleaning the studio\. It is my semi annual clean out the ols stuff and pack day. Now I have everything piled by the front door to put in the trailer. It is sleeting and cold out , I would like to put this off for another day but I have work men coming at 5 PM so I have to get those elbows working and move this mess out of the front entry way.

Time to get to work.

Change of Color
8x6 oil painting on canvas mounted on a panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 6 in X 8 in (15.2 cm X 20.3 cm)

Price: $100 USD

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Cow No.2

Cow No. 2

About This Painting: I painted this Cow in the pasture painting late last night. I tend to paint late at night and early in the morning. I thought about putting some grass in the cows mouth but haven't done it yet. That bring me to the question when do you know when your painting is done?Just start asking yourself a few questions:
1. Check edges
2. is the brush woek expressive
3. is the paint fresh, dirty, to smooth or thin
4. Have I improved on some of my style weakness form last work
5. Is there enough variety in the color and edges
6. color harmony
7. plane changes

Okay going over my check list I see a few things I could work on. So maybe that cow will get some grass yet.

Cow No.2
5x7
oil painting on canvas mounted on a museum quality panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 7 in X 5 in (17.8 cm X 12.7 cm)

Price: $100 USD

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Fall Leaf

Fall Leaf, the color of fall

About This Painting:

8x6 oil painting

Media: oil

Size: 6 in X 8 in (15.2 cm X 20.3 cm)

Price: $100 USD

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Pedicure

Pedicure , figurative art by Delilah

About This Painting: I know I have not been doing enough figurative work so I am going to paint more.
The only way to become better at figurative work is to keep painting. I plan on painting at least one figurative work a week. I like the slightly larger format of working on figurative paintings because I want to add some of the interiors objects or other people to the painting. Working with the figure and perspective just ads one more thing to the learning curve, giving more challenge to my daily paintings.

When I start a painting I sketch it in with a mixture of transparent red oxide. I don't put in many details because it will all be painted over. I then mix three shade of skin tones to get started. A light, medium and dark value.

1. I use a limited palette so when mixing the batches of skin tone I start with medium value. I take cadmium yellow and add one of my reds either  Cadmium Red for warm skin tones or Alizarin Crimson for cool skin tones tones, this mixture makes a nice orange color.Now I add a touch of blue. I use Uultramarine Blue this is my warm blue. By adding the blue I now have a nice brownish ocher mix. This is my middle value.

2. Now I take a blob of white and add some of my middle value to it. I then warm it a little with red. this is my lighted value.

3. To make the darker skin tone take some of the middle tone mix and add a little virdian and alizaian to it. Now you have your three skin tones.

Never add white directly to you painting to lighten a skin tone it will make is ashen and too pale.

Pedicure
10x8 oil painting on canvas mounted on a museum quality panel ready to be framed

Media: oil painting

Size: 8 in X 10 in (20.3 cm X 25.4 cm)

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