Last post before surgery

This may be my last post for awhile. Surgery is set for Tues. I did have a pretty good last week of painting though. Weds our model wore a Christmas hat which made for an interesting painting.

 Today a bunch of us braved the cold for some plein air painting. This is my first of the day.

 And this my second

 This is a studio painting see a video of it being painted here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5BMJGlFio0

Windy Days

Today Sharon and I went plein air painting off of Cherry Vale. It started out nice, but with in two hours the wind was really starting to pick up. It blew my panel off of the easel and was just kind of making things difficult. My painting wasn't very good, but I brought it back to my studio and worked on it more from memory, and here it is. Not too terrible.

I sure do enjoy our Weds. nights, even when my paintings are just so so. I am looking forward to getting my shoulder fixed, so I can start to work big again.

Left handed

This weekend I dove into more left handed painting. It has been hard to motivate to paint right handed knowing I will be losing that ability for awhile after my surgery. So I decided to see if I could improve with my left hand and actually have some fun. This one I did Friday evening. You can see the video Here..

This one is also left handed. I broke my rule of not painting from photos, It has just been so cold outside that I decided it was OK this time. I also filmed this one. See it at Here.

One

Yesterday I was participating in the Holiday Bazaar art sale at the Wilderness Trace Art studios. I found some time yesterday after noon to get out and paint this . It is of the old train depot which I have painted before. This time I saw it through these leafless trees and thought it would make an interesting challenge.

practicing with my left hand

Many of you may already know that I am more than likely going to have surgery on my right shoulder. I decided to try to look at this as an opportunity to learn how to paint with my left hand. This first painting is all right hand though. I painted it this Weds.

This one however is all left hand. I painted it last night. I figure it will be easier getting use to the left hand if I start using it before the surgery. That way I can ease into it, instead of being forced to use only it, with no option to go right for a break.

I painted this this afternoon. I went back and forth from left to right. using the right for awhile paying attention to how I hold the brush and the movement of my wrist and fingers to make the brush strokes. then I'd switched to my left trying to mimic in a mirror image sort of way what I observed with my right hand. I think this just might be good for me. Maybe After I recover I will be able to paint with both hands simultaneously. Ha!

This Week

This week I did a portrait on Weds and a Plein Air on the corner of Mapleton and 4th street earlier today.

One Painting

Not much time for painting these days, however I did manage to get this done on Weds night. We didn't have a model so Deb, one of the artists modeled for us. Everyone thought it was a pretty good likeness.