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Showing posts with label Monthly Painting Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monthly Painting Challenge. Show all posts
Sunday, October 12, 2008

FRENCHMAN: SHAPES IN ACRYLIC

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I spent the morning painting. Sometimes, you just have to set priorities. As you can see, I started out drawing the SHAPES with my vis-a-v...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

FRENCHMAN: LINE AS COLOR #1

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This one was a lot of fun to create. I used my drawing from the "wire sculpture" challenge. I created a few value studies since ...
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Sunday, September 21, 2008

NEW LINE CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK!

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The challenge for the coming week is to create a painting of THE FRENCHMAN using LINE AS A DOMINANT ELEMENT WITH THE EMPHASIS ON A COLORFUL ...
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Saturday, September 20, 2008

SLIDE SHOW FOR FRENCHMAN: LINE AS TEXTURE!

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Here are some truly creative solutions to the weekly challenge using LINE AS TEXTURE! Tomorrow I will reveal the next week's LINE CHA...
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Saturday, September 13, 2008

FRENCHMAN: LINE AS TEXTURE #2

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I'm not sure this really qualifies as "line" but it certainly is TEXTURE! The stamp I used was web-like lines, so I started o...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

LINE AS TEXTURE PAINTING #1 FINISHED

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I spent a few hours today finishing up the painting. My biggest problem was getting the support board to be perfectly level. I am painting...
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Sunday, September 7, 2008

FRENCHMAN #1 & #3 FINISHED!

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I finally finished #1 and #3. I think I may have overworked #3 but discovered some interesting techniques. I used the side of a oil pastel...
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

DEMO FOR BURLINGAME ART SOCIETY BECOMES FRENCHMAN LINE #2

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Today I worked on the first painting for a while. It needs a few finishing touches so I will post the results tomorrow. In the meantime, I...
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Monday, September 1, 2008

SEPTEMBER CHALLENGE PAINTING PROGRESS

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It was a great holiday weekend. The weather here in the SF Bay Area was totally glorious. Saturday I went with my husband to the King'...
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Saturday, August 30, 2008

SEPTEMBER CHALLENGE: VARIATIONS ON ONE THEME

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I am so excited about the challenge that I have prepared for September that I decided to start a day early in presenting it! Here is the id...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

PEOPLE OF NEW YORK SLIDE SHOW & MAY PAINTING CHALLENGE

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Usually, photos are only interesting to the people who took them, especially vacation photos. I usually leave the "tourist" type...
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Friday, April 11, 2008

SAME GUY, DIFFERENT SURFACE

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I am very excited about this painting! I covered a disaster of a watercolor painting with lots of gesso and textured the surface with wax...
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

RESULTS FROM ARTISTS BY THE BAY DEMONSTRATION TONIGHT

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I had the pleasure of doing a demo for a local art organization, Artists by the Bay, in San Mateo. There was some talk of doing a workshop e...
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

THE SUM OF THE PARTS! & APRIL'S CHALLENGE

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This is how the sheet looks all finished. The tape worked fairly well but some paint still slipped underneath. Having coated the surface m...
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Monday, March 31, 2008

FINAL BOZZETTOS #8 & #9

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Sitting at the Gallery Concord yesterday, I was able to finish the bozzetto sheet. Here are the last two pieces. This is an image that I w...
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Friday, March 14, 2008

2nd MARCH SLIDE SHOW & NEW CHALLENGE!

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Here are the drawings and paintings sent to me so far. Notice how drawing improves each time it is redrawn. The old "practice, pract...
Friday, February 1, 2008

REVEALED: JANUARY KALEIDOSCOPE FINISHED & FEBRUARY PAINTING CHALLENGE!

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FINALLY! I feel ready to move on now. I had to finish this painting. I decided to make it look like a quilt square. The tape I used did ...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

#4 IS FINALLY FINISHED!

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I was determined to finish something today! I worked on Kaleidoscope but can't seem to get very far at one time. The way I am painting...
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Saturday, January 26, 2008

LATEST SLIDE SHOW

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Here is the latest slide show. Enjoy! The month is swiftly coming to a close. I am still working on #2 and #4 but I think there may be t...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

CHANNELING ALEX POWERS....I WISH! January Painting Challenge #4

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While I persistently work on painting #2, the Kaleidoscope one, I am forging ahead with the next painting. This is #4 in the series. I nee...
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