Apr 12 - One of the Two Finished Acrylics

NEWS I had the pleasure of judging not one, but TWO shows this past week. The first one is at the Pendleton Roundup, "In the Company of Cowgirls" and had some amazing art by women artists in it. The second show, juried just today, is the Plein Air painting of historical sites in Redlands, California, showing at the Redlands Art Association Gallery on State Street. It is such an honor to see such worthy endeavors, and have the pleasure of picking the winners. Original "Spring" 12 x 16 Acrylic on Panel   Available for $220 email Elin April 12 - Finished the Two, here's one! First of the two paintings, animated for your learning.  I do hpoe that you're able to see and enjoy this animated image of one of the two finished paintings. Nothing I've ever done before shows how the painting is brought to its completed state like this! OH! What we learn to do with a computer and software!   Take some time and look at idfferent areas of the painting to get an understanding of how each area of the painting is developed. This, better than any long diatribe, will show you how I work as an artist.   This is the 12 x 16 acrylic of the mare and foal that began with the warm underpainting. Tomorrow I'll share the second one, with the blue underpainting (If you let me know you like this "in stages" image?).   Elin's Daily Painting Blog is HERE. Workshop information is HERE. Please forward this on to your friends, and thank you!  And on Other News.... Oh, the garden is in, beans are up, corn is about five inches, and there are already tomatoes! Several of you asked how I can find time to garden the way I do, and that's because I mulch everything. There are at least two big compost piles cooking away near the sheep and horse pens, and that's moved up to the garden along with the cleanout straw from the loafing pen where Vince and the sheep reside. I don't "till" regularly, and after the mulch does its work, I hardly have to fertilize, either. I'll post updated images tomorrow. Thanks for reading, and forwarding! Elin

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Apr 3 - Two Paintings Come Back Together

Source Material for these paintings   Other News... Still slogging through taxes right now, but will see the light tomorrow, well before the appointment on Thursday.   In the garden, the raised beds are full of winter veggies such as spreckles lettuce and carrots, and kale. That's bouganvilla on the fence holding back the green Preserve behind the place.   The lambs are growing, the corn and squash are popping in the big garden, and there are pingpong-ball-sized green tomatoes on the heirloom Stupice plant.   Spring is definitely here! April 5 - Conversion in The Two Paintings Fourth Pass - Now it's time to use "gradation" in the larger areas for interest.  Fun with the acrylics, dry and ready to assimilate more layers. With a palette knife and some moldling paste mixed into the pigment, I had fun putting in the distant flowering trees in the orchard at the end of the pasture.    Gradation is when a passage of color is made more interesting by the addition of closely related values and hues to break up the larger shape. There are many ways to do this, and using a palette knife is only one.   Note that there STILL are no details! Please squint your eyes to see that the values and design hold together without them. The upper (warm ground) painting has more contrast at this point, and I'm pleased with both of them.   Elin's Daily Painting Blog is HERE. Workshop information is HERE. Email Elin HERE. Please forward this on to your friends, and thank you!    Thanks for reading, Elin Please forward...   Please forward this on to anyone you think would be interested in these online lessons. I love to share what I know about painting, and it is your sharing with other folks that make this possible.

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Apr 3 - Two Paintings Continue -and Diverge

Source Material for these paintings   Other News... I enjoyed family time this weekend with my Navy niece coming up to visit and bringing her friend from base. We cleaned the sheep pens, planted more of the big garden, played Playstation and generally had a great time. I hope they'll return and bring more Navy personnel looking for an experience of "working on the farm".   Today I knuckle down and do taxes, like most of you meeting the US deadline of April 15.   Thanks for all the emails--I hadn't heard from some of you for a year or more, and it is joyful to catch up with what you're up to! April 3 - Two Horses in Acrylics, Third Stage Third Pass, the backgrounds are really affecting the development.  AS the canvases hide more and more of the underpainting, the color choices I make for these areas are influenced by that underpainting color! Look at the grasses and how the cool notes are more prevalent in the upper one (the one with the orange background) and how I stayed more withint the warm family for the blue background one. And the color choices on the horses reveal how influenced an artist can be by what's already on the canvas.  A good lesson for both myself and my readers!   From this point forward, I believe each of you will have a preference for one or the other of these paintings. Think about that and let me know, and when the paintings are finished, I'll share your comments in the post following their finish..   The source material is still to the left.   Elin's Daily Painting Blog is HERE. Workshop information is HERE. Please forward this on to your friends, and thank you!    Thanks for reading, Elin Please forward...   Please forward this on to anyone you think would be interested in these online lessons. I love to share what I know about painting, and it is your sharing with other folks that make this possible.

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Apr 2 - Two Horses Continues, with the source material

It's OK, you're NOT unsubscribed!!! I made a huge mistake when I changed over your emails from Google Groups to this new mailing list server. It sent out a notice and it shouldn't have happened! I'm so sorry--so many of you wrote worried notes that you wouldn't be getting my blog. I can only say, after the fact, that perhaps it was an April Fool's Joke? But I'd never do anything like that to my friends out in cyberspace! We're still all together, now safely on the mailing list provider in my account. Source Material for these paintings   Here's the source material for the paintings I'm doing. I doctored up the original--the foal was in a poorly designed position, so I Photoshopped her closer to her mom. And I moved mom to the right. Always leave MORE room in front of a horse than behind. Gives 'em some place to GO.   April 2 - Two Horses in Acrylics, Second Stages Second Pass, Two Paintings, Different Background.  Here's where I cover the canvas, keeping in mind the design of the painting, but absolutely without any concern for any edges. I'm "massing in" the large areas of color, choosing those colors based upon the time of day (late morning) and also whether the area is nearby, or over 300 feet away. I change from warm to cool when I get into the distance.   The source material is nice, but nothing remarkable. Take a look to the left.   Elin's Daily Painting Blog is HERE. Workshop information is HERE. Please forward this on to your friends, and thank you!    Thanks for reading, Elin Please forward...   Please forward this on to anyone you think would be interested in these online lessons. I love to share what I know about painting, and it is your sharing with other folks that make this possible.

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Mar 31 - Two for One! Horses in Acrylics

Ideas for Subjects? I'm more than happy to take requests for subjects for paintings--it allows me to focus and perhaps to paint something I've not done before.   Do you have some ideas? Other News   I think I mentioned that there was one more ewe ready to give birth? This morning I went out to see my flock is now up to NINE. This beautifully colored lamb was the big news--definitely a "coat of many colors" art lamb! I'd call this one Joseph, but he is not a he! So Josephina has joined the flock with her less colorful sister (hiding behind mom). That's three ewes = six lambs--four girls and two boys. Spring has been fun at Two Trees! I've been spending time in the pen and pasture just watching the lambs play, and taking images for future paintings. March 31 - Two Horses in Acrylics, Done in Stages Two Paintings, Different Background.  I was sitting at the gallery for PAAR a few days ago, and with my acrylices wiled away the hours with these two paintings. The blue-green background is a 9 x 12, and the red-orange one is 12 x 16.   I started both of these from the same source material, a mare and foal in late morning light. With both of them, I drew with a wet brush into the not-dry underpainting.  The "cool" one is done with ultramarine blue and sap green, creating a neutral ground. The other one is cadmium red light, cadmium orange and yellow ochre, for a warm tone, but not as hot if I'd not used the ochre.   These two will be developed in the days to come, side by side, in stages. I hope you enjoy seeing them go to the finished stage!   The source material is nice, but nothing remarkable. Elin's Daily Painting Blog is HERE. Workshop information is HERE. Please forward this on to your friends, and thank you!    Thanks for reading, Elin On Unsubscribing... If you wish to unsubscribe from the Daily Paintings blog or this email message, please don't click on the link at the bottom. Just send me an email with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line and I'll remove you quickly and quietly.    I've been glad to be a part of your artistic journey and will welcome you back if you're ready.

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Mar 29 - La Vieja, the old Pug Painting

Horse Paintings Coming Up I'm more than happy to take requests for subjects for paintings--it allows me to focus and perhaps to paint something I've not done before.   Do you have some ideas? Other News   I've been spending available days working on two things outside of art--the big garden and the sheep pasture. That one is inside the other is not lost on me--weed control and planting! Here's an image of the fenced garden with mulch in place and the sheep doign weed patrol inside the perimeter fence. The mountain behind is wehre I hike. It's lovely green this time of year, and not much green in the garden yet, although I've planted about half of it. March 29 - A Different Old One Another one for the Canine Art Guild Online Show.  Called "La Vieja", this 14 year old pug belonged to the fellow who stayed in the guest house while he completed his masters. I now have her as the "third wheel" in the pack here, and decided that with her long life and gentle nature, she deserved a portrait. It came quickly, after I set her up on the cat perch (padded in the afternoon sunshine), and took her picture while she looked out the window.   I love old dogs. I should have more of them, because they are so grateful for what they have. She was sad for a day or two after I adopted her back, but quickly figured out her place and has been snoring mightily in happy dog dreams ever since.   This 7 x 5 oil is available for $100 from me.   Elin's Daily Painting Blog is HERE. Workshop information is HERE. Please forward this on to your friends, and thank you!    Thanks for reading, Elin On Unsubscribing... If you wish to unsubscribe from the Daily Paintings blog or this email message, please don't click on the link at the bottom. Just send me an email with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line and I'll remove you quickly and quietly.    I've been glad to be a part of your artistic journey and will welcome you back when you're ready.   For the rest of you, I have some great horse paintings coming up in stages for your learning pleasure!

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Mar 27 - Doberman Painting for Canine Art Guild Online Show

It seems to be working... I'm still tweaking as I learn more about the technology on this mailing list thingie. Bear with me!   The AAEA workshop is creating a lot of interest! You can go here for the flyer (pdf file, Adobe Reader required). March 27 - Quick One for Canine Art League Online Show During a part of the workshop when folks were working on their time-of-day paintings....  I started and finished this 12 x 9 oil of a Doberman Pinscher. This is actually a portrait of my long-gone soulmate Evoe. She was an elegant dobie, with lines of Shinya and Marienberg going right to Sun Hawk on top and bottom. Doing this backlit oil with the purples and blues complementing the oranges of her mask wa a joy. Do you see the Color System working? You veterans of the Color Boot Camps, I bet you can figure out the background!   I love painting animals who are gone--it brings them back to me and I can touch them yet again as the paint comes off my brushes. I think I have painted most every dog that has been a part of my life, and some still are here on the wall or in the rack.   I did an earlier portrait of her before the color system, and I share it with you as well in the sidebar. Same size, different color scheme. Which do YOU prefer? Email me...   Elin's Daily Painting Blog is HERE. Workshop information is HERE. Please forward this on to your friends, and thank you!  I had a wonderful dinner this evening, with much of the vegetables coming from the garden: three lettuces (romaine, red oak and , beets, Swiss chard, carrots (cooked in mango sauce!) and avocados. That, plus the cod made for a fine meal.  And there's one ewe that is SO ready to pop. Huge as a house, I watched her graze today with one of the lambs kicking her side. What a wonderful spring!   Thanks for reading, Elin ABC Company, 123 Any Street, Any Town, www.abccompany.com Insert... Font family Font size

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Mar 25 - Another One Gets Worked Over

Workshop!! The American Academy of Equine Art is collaborating with me at my studio to teach a five-day workshop on horses in landscape (using the Color System). It's scheduled for April 11-15 and the weather will be just perfect for it! Here in Riverside, we have Raindance for a model (which she loves!). I'm scheduling drawing sessions with my neighbor's Arabs, taking those images or the student's own reference photographs and working them up with the Color System to create wonderful equine paintings.   A portion of your workshop fee is a donation to the tax deductible AAEA, too! Ask about the workshop!! Original "Problem Child" 12 x 16 Oil on Panel     Available for $220 email Elin Yesterday's painting is sold. March 25 - Another Re-do of an Oldie Changing the time of day....  When I picked up this "oldie-but-not-quite-Goodie" off the shelf, I knew I was going to make some dramatic color changes to teach my workshop students about time of day.   The original painting was done on location at the Sants Rosa Preserve in Murrieta, California. It was done with that limited colors I mentioned yesterday, and I'll share them with you: Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Red Medium, Cadmium Yellow Light, Pthalo Green and Burnt Umber. A great palette for a lot of plein air painters, even though limited. I've come to dislike the limited options it brings, and have expanded it to the twelve of the Color System which suits me.   This painting is now full of morning light, and yet appears more yellow than I would like--the photograph doesn't do it justice.   Elin's Daily Painting Blog is HERE. Workshop information is HERE. Please forward this on to your friends, and thank you!  And on Other News.... No pictures of the big garden--it's raining again and so I hiked around the valley with Vince and the sheep instead. I love being outdoors even in the rain, so I guess I don't have any sense, eh? My Mom used to say I didn't have either the "sense God gave a goat" (Vince would disagree) or "not enough sense to come in out of the rain". I just smile.....   Thanks for reading, Elin

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Mar 24 - Redoing an old one and new format

NEWS!!! How do you like the new format? I had to go to an upgrade of what I'm sharing by not using the blog for sharing. They just did one too many things to make it tough to communicate, so here we are with a new provider and better pleasure in keeping open the communication. How do you like it? Original "Problem Child" 12 x 16 Oil on Panel Available for $220 SOLD March 24 - Redoing an Old One Sometimes we have to fix paintings....  For the recently completed workshop, I demonstrated evening light on an old 12 x 16 oil I'd done years ago (2002) as part of a class I taught in plein air painting for the community college. I remember the objective for the day--"atmospheric perspective". For these college students, who had few yards of canvas under their brushes, I kept the colors simple. They were working with the basic palette of five colors plus white.The site was chosen because of the stairstepping mountain ranges getting lighter and softer as they receded to the left. Now that I'm using 12 colors in the Color System, the results are DRAMATIC in the changes of color. And I absolutely loved going over the old painting with the new Color System knowledge. Picking the colors to liven up the canvas was easy as I kept my head in either the warm or cool boxes to mix the colors. I promised the students I'd do more of this, and I'll share them with you in the days to come. Elin's Daily Painting Blog is HERE. Workshop information is HERE. Please forward this on to your friends, and thank you!  And on Other News.... I'm having tons of fun planning and planting the new 48 x 36' garden plot (pictures coming). I've upped the ante on tomato plants, having a whopping ten heirloom varieties from the three I had last year. The Swiss chard is in, as are the summer squashes. I'm starting the winter squash in the raised beds for transplanting later this afternoon. Still eating the lettuces and carrots and beets from the winter planting cycle. Carrots are SO good! Thanks for reading, Elin ABC Company, 123 Any Street, Any Town, www.abccompany.com Insert... Font family Font size

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