Day 5 - 30 in 30 - Bluehills

On the road again today.

A two hour trip in the wee morning hours went by swiftly

while my darling husband drove.

Only a digital painting today.

The pre-mixed colors that come with the Paper 53 App

are rather subtle.

I worked on mixing and saving some more intense hues today.

The composition and subject are a 

"rewind" of a previous painting.

"Bluehills"-  digital ink on iPad 

Maybe by the end of this 30 Paintings in 30 Days challenge

I will get the hang of this digital painting thing.

In the meantime I sure am having fun with it.

Paper 53 is giving me an option for days

when i can't be in my studio.

I really only intended to use it for quick thumbnail sketches.

Maybe tomorrow.

Luckily I will be back at my easel!!!!

Here is the original.

A bit out of focus, it is 24" x 36", took forever to dry

and sold right away.

Day 4 - 30 Paintings in 30 Days - Passed By

An old Van Buren County barn from a photo

that is at least 5 years old.

I painted it plein air back then in pastel.

Thought I should give it a try in oil today.

"Passed By"  oil on panel 8" x 10"

Day 3 - 30 Paintings in 30 Days - Frost Field

We were on the road today.

I love the beauty of the frosty fields.

From the warm car...

I played with the Paper 53 app again while we were driving.

Then at home I played around with the watercolors again.

I think that the digital painting conveys the feeling of how cold it

was today better than the watercolor.

Maybe I will actually get into the studio tomorrow

 and break out the oil paint.

Frost Field

Day 2 - 30 Paintings - Lake Lacey

I had a little more fun with the Paper 53 app today.

Lake Lacey - digital on iPad 

Then I did a watercolor as well.

A couple of them, but this was the better of the two.

The digital is fun and you can "rewind" your mistakes.

if you catch them soon enough.

Lake Lacey - watercolor on paper

Day 1 - 30 Paintings in 30 Days 2014

I said last year at the end of Leslie Saeta's 

30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge that I would NEVER

do that again.

Well....

Digital study on paper 53

I am taking another run at it.

But this time I don't have a show opening

when the month ends.

So I am going back into my photo archives.

Painting in oil or watercolor.

Experimenting with digital painting 

in the Paper 53 app on my iPad.

Here is a 6 x 8 watercolor of Lake Sugema.

Giverny Progression

I'm playing catch-up for the next couple of days with my blog.

This one had been languishing in drafts for a while.

I took a photo of the bridge at Giverney last April.

The wisteria vines were NOT in bloom.

But I added them.

I love being an artist.

I started with the darks, then built up the lights

and paint layers.

Et Voila!

"Pleasure Garden"

oil on panel

9  x 12

2014 Calendar

Here is my pen and ink for the 2014 Community First Bank Calendar. 

 I have always been intrigued by the 

Italianate belfry on the Methodist Church in Birmingham, Iowa.  

The bank has a branch office there so I decided to "branch out" beyond Keosauqua this year.

Some people have called the facade "the Alamo" style.