No Great Pumpkin

11x14 oil on canvas

I limited myself to one hour and stopped. During that time, my son called, the neighbor came over, the dog got upset and went crazy, but one hour is one hour. Maybe I'll finish it later. I decided I probably shouldn't sign these 120 paintings.

Creepy Halloween

This is study #2. I seem to be missing the point. The point is to work efficiently, limiting brush strokes and making every one count, but I can't seem to make myself stop correcting. But I suppose it will get better...

My box is a little bigger than the one Larry Seiler made and I'm not sure the shadows are as pronounced.

120 paintings

I'm trying to participate in a webinar study on Wet Canvas with artist Larry Seiler, but his technical difficulties to present them have left me a little at sea. At any rate, he claims that you have to paint 120 paintings before you paint a good one.... So I decided to start from scratch, I built a light box to help with focus and here's my first study (emphasis on STUDY) of 120. I spent about 2 hours, which is longer than he recommended, but I'm sure I'll get faster. And I could have picked at it much longer, to get the base of the mannequin right, but that wouldn't have been the point, so here it is. I'll be doing the studies in oil. This one's 11x14 out of a 7-pack I think Mom gave me a few months ago. Be prepared, this may get ugly.

Rainy Days are for Ducks

The thing about pastel is it's messy. Dust everywhere. 

This was another one for the Artist Daily All media photo challenge.