30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day 13

Sakura! These are the wonderful cherry blossoms that captivate the citizens of Japan once a year. The petals are a delicate pink with white tips.  The blossoms pop off of the page thanks to the essence of blue sky that surrounds them.  Copic ink colors for this piece are: E33, E37, YG03, R21, 0, B91.

30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day 12

These flowers are also done with copic ink.  Can you guess how many different colors were used in the making of these flowers?

30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day 11

Gerbera's are one of my favorite flowers to paint.  This, however, is a Gerbera that is done in ink. Today I attended one of my favorite annual events, the Copic ink workshop series, and the focus of the workshop was flowers.  This piece was done on Copic sketch paper using the following ink colors: B00, B02, B04, B24, Y21 and Y38. 

30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day 9 & 10

I picked up some copper, silver and rich gold paint by Gamblin and I wanted to see how these metallics interacted with each other and with non metallic oil paint by the same manufacturer, in this case, cadmium orange.  These were done on stretched canvas.

30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day 7 and 8

As you can see, I had to experiment with the gold again.  This diptych experiments with ivory black and pale gold, palette knives and rubber.  I wiped off several versions of each of these until I got something that I liked.

30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day 6

I have had this gold paint for months and have been dying to try it out.  Today it became mountains, shimmering through the white snow.  This painting was done with a palette knife on a board which I gessoed myself.  After the gesso dried, I did not sand it smooth so as to add some extra texture to the piece.

30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day 5

Day 5 of the challenge had me back to the drawing board with this painting.  So, I have blocked out the large shapes again and now I will let it sit a few days and dry before I try a new idea.  Stay tuned!