"Qiang Huang Workshop"

8 x 10

oil on stretched canvas

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Today was the first day of a workshop with Qiang Huang and I feel like a kid in a candy store! He is such a great instructor..very hands on, approachable, and a comforting ease with his students. Starts the workshop with an hour of power point background and instruction, followed by an incredible demo, lunch, then painting with available setup material. This is the result of my afternoon's painting...with lots of hands on suggestions. Qiang is helping me see colors I've been missing, lights and darks that "who knew", composition, lost lines...you name it...my head is swimming! Two more days!!! Yeah!!!

"Look This Way"

8 x 10

oil on gessoed hardboard

Still mainly using the Zorn palette, but added a little green and violet to complement the red of the apples.

"Get in Line"

8 x 10

oil on hardboard

Ran across a new painting challenge site, RookiePainter, and realized that today was the final day for the first challenge. Check out the other entries. Hopefully some of the DSFDF artists will enter in future weeks.

"Left Out"

8 x 10

oil on gessoed hardboard
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Another painting using the Zorn palette mentioned in the previous post.

"Johnny Appleseed"

11 x 14

oil on gessoed hardboard

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Here is a view of one of my bookshelves, well, minus the apple. This was a new experiment for me; adopting the limited palette of Swedish painter Anders Zorn. There were only four colors used; cadmium red light, yellow ochre, ivory black and titanium white. Very freeing, but challenging as well. I will definitely try this again!

Also want to take this opportunity to thank three artists, each of whom honored me with the Sunshine Award: Trish Siegel, Karen Bruson, and Mitzi Easley. I can't thank you enough, along with other artists who are so kind to visit and leave comments on my work. Please check out the websites for Trish, Karen and Mitzi and enjoy their creative artistry.

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"Stacked"

11 x 14

oil on gessoed hardboard

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Still working on some still lifes in preparation for my workshop with Qiang Huang in about 10 days. You might want to check out a video of one of his demos.

"White on White"

9 x 12

oil on gessoed hardboard

Have been wanting to try a more neutral pallet. Guess our record Dallas snowfall within the last few days has me seeing "white'!

"Dots and Daisies"

11 x 14

oil on hardboard

Guess I should have titled this 'dots, daisies, limes and peppers"! The gerber daisy arrangement is from a birthday party I had for my husband, and the peppers, well, they were just too delicious looking to resist.

I'm taking a workshop at the end of this month with Qiang Huang and thought I'd better work on a still life for a little practice.

"Bless This Food"

11 x 13

oil on gessoed hardboard

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This is a framed donation to a fundraiser at our church. The choir, well know for their incredible talent, puts on a Valentine's dinner and musical review each year to help fund their trip to England. This year they have added auction items to their program, let's hope this helps!