Oct 28, 2014 Giraffe Painting

I painted this Giraffe based on the dvd of Jerry Yarnell's inspiration of painting. It's my first closed-up animal painting and it was challenging, especially making the face and all the fur.
Although I'm more into landscape paintings, I want to learn so many other techniques so someday I can paint everything.

I paint this on 16x20 inches canvas using acrylic paints: gesso, cadmium red medium, cadmium yellow light, cadmium orange, hooker's green, ultramarine blue, diox. purple.

Oct28,2014 Giraffe

Maple Valley Painting, October 21, 2014

I painted Maple Valley following teaching of Jerry Yarnell.
It took me 4.5 hours to finish this painting and I really like how it turns out.
This one is done on 16x20 inches stretched canvas and using 9 colors: cadmium yellow, cadmium orange, cadmium red, hooker's green, ultramarine blue, diox. purple, burnt sienna, thalo green yellow and gesso for white.

Maple valley painting, Oct 21, 2014

Country Villa Paint by Numbers, Oct 17, 2014

I started doing new paint by numbers called Country Villa 11 days ago. It measures 16x20 inches canvas with 20 colors. It was fun and fast project. Not really my style in colors, because I like a little bit softer colors, but I do like the end result.

Country Villa PBN, Oct 17, 2014

Winter Doe painting, Oct 14, 2014

I've been wanting to paint animals for the longest time but had no courage to do it.
I purchased a book by Wilson Bickford and last night I tried it for the first time painting Winter Doe.
It was fun following step by step in the book, using only 5 colors: titanium white, burnt sienna, red cadmium medium, yellow cadmium light and ultramarine blue.

This is painted on 12x16 inches canvas panel.

Winter Doe, Oct14,14

Oct 10, 2014 Red Old Barn painting

I painted this red old barn following Tim Gagnon, a painter I like.
This one is painted on 11x14 canvas panel, using black, red cadm medium, yellow ochre, raw umber, burnt sienna, titanium white, terre verde.

I love barns and farms and everything about it!!

red old barn, oct10,14

Fox Paint by Numbers, Oct 7, 2014

I finished another Paint by Number project. This one measures 16x20 and called Sunlit Fox, by Dimensions. I started this PBN on Sept 15, 2014, so since I also painted other things, I didn't always paint this. So, it takes me about 3 weeks to finish.

Fox PBN, Oct7,14

Autumn Scene painting, Oct 5, 2014

I painted another one of Jerry Yarnell's lesson. I love the way he combines colors. So serene.
I painted this on 16x20 inches canvas using acrylic paints. It took almost 6 hours to finish this because there were so many details added to make things a lot more interesting.

Happy Fall!!!

Oct 5, 2014 Autumn Scene

Painting a pumpkin, Oct 5, 2014

We went to a small farm on Sunday, the 14th and they had a harvest festival there.
So many people went and did pumpkin patch. We just picked a white big pumpkin instead.

Since I don't like Halloween nor celebrate it, I decided to paint the pumpkin with regular scenes.
Made 4 different scenes from it : lake, mountain, autumn trees and sea with dolphin.
So much fun painting these although it took a longer time for the paint to dry.