Navigating Nevis

No, I'm not in the tropics!

This was painted over a month ago.

In the depths of our endless winter.

So much for keeping up with my blog

in February.

Navigating Nevis  - 8 x 8

Oil on gesso board

$75

I certainly haven't wanted to paint snow

and when Gin Lammert invited me to paint

with a group of artists at

the Fort Madison Art Center....

I knew I wanted to paint 

a warm location.

The photo was taken in Nevis many years ago

on a trip with my husband's family.

It was taken with actual 35mm film.

Remember that stuff?

St. Leonard's Church in Lipnica

I did this watercolor as a birthday gift

for my sister-in-law.

We visited Poland together last fall

with our husbands.

They are brothers.

But we are more than sisters-in-law.

It was a blast....

St. Leonard's Church in Lipnica

This beautiful church is one of the oldest 

Gothic wooden churches in Poland.

The first story is made of logs and the interior

walls and ceilings have

scenes from the Bible

 colorfully rendered from the 15th to the 17th century.

We visited this

 church with our husband's Polish family.  

Their grandfather grew up in the town of Lipnica.

It was our second visit to Poland

and we found the country and it's people just as

enchanting this time as we did last time.

Dy 30 - 30 in 30 - Pont de Paris

For the second year I am a bit

conflicted on the last day of the 

30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge.

It is wonderful to have an excuse

to paint every single day for an

ENTIRE MONTH!!!

But then,

life

happens.

I wasn't going to paint today.

But I had this one last image 

that I wanted to interpret.

"Pont de Paris" - oil on panel - 5 x 7

Yesterday I thought that the painting

that I painted

was a bit too colorful.

But, this one is coming out a bit dull.

The pastels are subtle in this one.

I photographed it at night,

and it was wet.

Excuses, excuses....

Day 29 - 30 Paintings - Hilltop

I'm still working on

using brighter colors.

"Hilltop" - oil on Board - 5 x 7

Maybe a bit too bright?

Day 28 - 30 Days - Back to School

A magnolia in bloom 

and a one room schoolhouse.

Simple.

Or not.

Went back over the pale pink.

Maybe not the best idea.

More blue on the shadow side?

And the roof, well....

Still had a great time at Bill Teeple's class

At ICON in Fairfield.

Thanks Susan, Jeanette and Bill.

Missed the rest of the class that is

 off warming up in Florida and Arizona!

Day 27 - 30 Paintings - La Tour

I was thinking about Paris today.

So I painted the Eiffel Tower.

I included a watercolor that I painted sometime in the last year as well.

First the underpainting.

Then the intermediate version

Then I wanted to work on the sky

 that is always so moody and colorful.

And the little watercolor.

Day 26 - 30 Days - Try, Try Again

I played around with the watercolor

from John Preston's class again today.

I had various degrees of success

but it was fun trying.