Quick Painting Challenge Results

I participated in a painting challenge: Paint a painting in 20-30 minutes.  I am not a fast painter so I went with 30 minutes and here is the results.  It was a really good experience for me so I'm going to continue. More to come....

Coco

Oil

Joe's Toes

Commission for my dear friend fellow painter and exceptional dancer!
Oil on cradled panel

Oh Happy Day

16x20 Cold Wax and Oil
More experimentation with this new medium. Reminds me of a warm day at the beach looking over the marsh.

Immigration

Abstract cold wax and oil
Something very different for me. Trying to step outside my box. I have to admit it was scary and fun.

Horny

Watercolor sold 

Jack

watercolor

Icy Sunset

oil and gold leaf on aluminum panel 20x24

Moon For the Misbegotten

 Broadway Tart 12x12 Oil and gold leaf on panel sold

Tyrone's Reverie 16x20 Oil and gold leaf on panel

Two more paintings I did for the Warehouse Theater Show

Whistle Pig Rye

This is a watercolor batik painting I did for the Monday Night Painters Show at The Warehouse Theater.  We painted from inspiration we found in the current play "Moon for the Misbegotten"
by Eugene O'Neil. Sold

Night Heron

10x20 oil on canvas
Finally finished this one. From a picture I took at Magnolia Gardens Audubon
Bird walk a while back. Enjoyed using the palette knife on the limbs and background.

Alice's Grandaughter- Tea Party

Watercolor 12x12
Finally finished this for a friend. Such a cute photo and precious little girl, But no more portraits!

Kanuga Workshop

 Ladies on a Bench

David and the dogs

These are two painting I did at Kanuga Watermedia Workshops in Sandy Maudlin's Yupo Class.
The top is a process where you pour fluid acrylics on yupo and let it dry then draw your painting over the pour and use alcohol to remove the whites and paint in the darks leaving the pour as the mid-value with some tweaking with watercolor along the way.  The second is a photo of my husband and dogs that I did on yupo using a tape batik method. Taping out the lightest value, painting, taping again, painting... until you are all the way to the darkest value- then peel all the tape off and tweak with watercolor. A fun week!

Cow-Girl

12x21 Watercolor  I took this picture at the Vermont State Fair last summer. The young girl was waiting to show her calf. The girl looked pretty calm but the calf wasn't at all sure about it. I liked the way they leaned into each other.

Colin

Commission. Oil

Tug-o-war

22x15 Watercolor
From a photo I took on the beach at Huntington Beach State Park this past spring.

Nola Streetcar Rider

A very stately lady I saw riding the streetcar in New Orleans this summer.
14x17 watercolor

The Cubans

More of my faces from summer. These were painted from photos I got off facebook (from a friend of a friend)  They are both 6x6 oil on masonite board.

Persons of Interest

Project for the summer was to paint faces. I try to find photos with interesting attitudes that aren't posed. Perhaps I should call these unsuspecting persons of interest. Top two are 6x6 lower one is 5x7 all are oil on masonite panel.

Woody

Watercolor 14x14
Painting I did for a friend. First attempt at a watercolor cat using techniques I picked up from a workshop I took this spring.