My Husband Told Me to Paint Today

Having breakfast with my mom at a fabulous little cafe and then having my husband tell me to go home and paint the rest of the day makes for a pretty good day!   I finally braved painting another sailing photo of my husband.  This time it's a picture of him up on the mast.  The original photo and painting, he is riveting but I had trouble with his hands again so I converted him to holding onto a loose halyard. The more I work a painting, the less vibrance I have.  Part of this is overworking my ala prima (wet on wet) style of painting.  I love ala prima but I have to stop overworking.   But it was nice to be able to sit and paint today...

8x10

 Here is my beginning palette for this painting...

 For the portraits, I tend to feel more comfortable tracing the basic shape onto the canvas.

 This is what I had done when I decided to check my work in a photo.  I noticed that part of the sky had been missed with a layer of blue so I started to work the painting more and ended up completely changing it to below...

 I messed up his hand and then reworked several aspects of the painting.  He turned out much less vibrant. 

Here is the palette when I finished.  

"Up The Mast"- 8x10 Panel

Here it is with the other painting of him, it was one of my first oil paintings...
I think I'll do him at the wheel for a third one...

Pet Portraits

I have painted several pet portraits this last year.  It was fun to be able to bring the personality out in the paintings of their adorable pets.  I am in love with painting pets.

I painted Olive as a tribute for my friend who had lost her.  8x10

I did this painting also as a tribute to a friend who lost her dog.  8x8

 

This is Martha.  She is a dog of my friend's that commissioned me to paint her. 6x12

 

This is a 6x6 of a dog that I was commissioned to paint.

 This is a dog that I painted for a friend that asked him to be painted- A tribute for her son. 8x8

 A 6x6 painting of a rabbit, Honey Bunny, that I was commissioned to paint.

I painted Teddy upon request of a friend to match the other painting I did of her dogs. 8x8

Painting Again

I have found time here and there to get in some painting time.  As always, it is good for my soul...