Kreative Blogger Award

How nice, thank you to Lyn O'Neal for including me in her list of Kreative Blogger Awards. She has just started her blog not too long ago, so give her a visit! I will list a few things about myself, and then pass the award along to a few other artists.

1. Besides drawing and painting, my other interests over the years have been sewing, knitting, crocheting, embroidering, and I even built a doll house or two.
2. I enjoy taking walks, and riding my bike.
3. I like to bake, especially cakes, pies, and desserts.
4. I love to eat cakes, pies, and desserts, especially cookies!
   
5. I"ve lived here in Rochester, NY, near lake Ontario, my whole life.
6. I love watercolor painting, and how I've tried over the years, but I just don't seem to have the knack. So, I am fascinated by those who do! Same with playing music.
   

Ok, enough about me, here are some artist who I would like to pass the award along to:
Give them a visit!

1. Silvia Williams Watercolors
   
2. Laura's Watercolors
3. Melody Lamb
   
4. Following the Masters
5. Kathy Weber
6. Dar Presto

Also, visit some of the artists I have on my favorites list, they are all wonderful.

Oil on watercolor paper

Oil on watercolor paper, 5" x7"
I went to an art festival recently and saw some wonderful paintings by an artist who said he like to work in oil on heavy watercolor paper. So, I thought I'd try a little experiment and do an oil painting on some watercolor paper. I put a coat of gesso on it, and let it dry, and did this painting of an orange on a white cloth. I changed the color of the background and shadows many times, and wasn't too concerned with ending up with a finished painting, I was just playing around. Then I got an impulse to put this blue/green color in the shadows and I really liked it like that. So, that's where I left it. I might try this again and do a more finished painting.

"Tangerine and Mug 2 "

Oil on 5"x7" board
I used the same subjects in this painting as in the last one, just rearranged a bit. The blue, orange, and green seem to go so nicely together.
I notice on my color wheel that blue-violet, red-orange, and yellow-green are a triad color scheme, which is 3 colors equally spaced from each other on the color wheel. Color wheels can be so helpful when trying to compose a painting, I should try and look at mine more often.

Cupcake

(above) Oil sketch on gessoed paper, (Below) Oil on Linen panel

I wanted to try painting the newest "Different Strokes From Different Folks" challenge. A picture of a row of cupcakes. I picked the center cupcake to do a painting of. I have been wanting to try painting on linen again. So, recently I ordered a large piece of folded unprimed linen from Utrecht. I thought I'd cut a small piece of it and mount it on a hard board panel. So, I gessoed it and glued it to a panel, and then did my painting on it. I'm really excited to make some more panels this way.
I wasn't quite satisfied with my cupcake painting, and decided to do a sketch of it on gessoed paper to try some other colors, and to try and paint a bit looser. And, in the end, I like my sketch much better than my painting! I've since tried to change the painting to look more like the sketch, but, it wasn't working out, I just wound up making it worse. Oh well. So, here is a picture of my sketch, and a picture of the painting before I messed with it, and now that I look back, it doesn't look too bad after all. I hate when I do that!!!