2017 is flying. Finishing up week 13 and 14 of my painting project means that I have already lived 98 24-hour cycles since Christmas. That doesn’t seem possible. The days are going too fast and it kind of gives me a little bit of anxiety…I want time to slow down not speed up. Anyway enough rambling here’s everything I painted in week 13:

I’ve been a little short on canvas and paper lately so I’ve been working in my art journal. I painted these cats:

This was a random watercolor doodle:

Jane Davenport has this amazing watercolor palette for portraits but I think it’s perfect for chickens. A pretty poultry painting:

An abstract watercolor landscape. I usually paint these in stages as I’m working around the house…adding bits of color here and there so it stacks up in a blotty kind of way. Very un-technical:

A large abstract painting on gallery canvas. I used layering and gold leaf on this one:

A watercolor and ink quote:

“I hope you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true, I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.” -Frida Kahlo

A layered art journal page:

For week 14 I decided to go with a theme…ink blot birds:

I painted the shape of the bird in ink on one page and then blotted it onto the other page for a mirror image. This day was parakeets:

Day 2 was goldfinches but my ink blot was really, really messy…it was hard to recover. This goldfinch looks like oscar the grouch:

Ostrich day:

Peacocks:

The dodo bird:

And of course my favorite…the turkey vulture aka peace eagle:

We have a lot of them around. Here’s a photo I took last week ….you can barely see them in the two trees but there are seven turkey vultures sitting there. One was flying away as I took this. If I get to close they’ll leave. Their wing span is incredible, almost like they are part dragon. I watched them for a while from inside before going out. Foshizzle was in the yard right below them pecking away in the grass. They didn’t seem the least bit interested in bothering her. She had no idea they were up there watching but I don’t think she needs to worry about them. Maybe they are protecting her. 

And the royal penguin:

 
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Here’s everything I painted in week 11…I seem to have taken a detour into landscapes:

This was just a quick watercolor sketch in my art journal:

I got out my oil paints one day which is huge…usually I’m too lazy to set them all up because they take a little more thought than acrylic. This abstract landscape was painted on cradled hardboard:

I love finding thrift store paintings that I can add things to. This was a landscape I found locally and added the quote:

I love painting in the loose style that I did below. I will layer paint on thick and then scrape it off at certain points….never knowing quite where the painting will end up going.  It’s probably my favorite way to paint landscapes. This painting was done on an old reclaimed shelf:

I wasn’t sure what I was going to do this day except that I had a bunch of blank canvases and a bunch of leftover paint from another project. I just started sketching feathers and this is what I ended up with:

I traveled to Charlotte one weekend to see my sister and I forgot my painting supplies so I improvised and painted this abstract on an embroidery hoop:

Another loose landscape painting on hardboard:

Here’s everything I painted in week 12…with Sixty-One Park taking over my life this ended up being a little more random:

A very messy, loose painting and I love how it turned out with this scripture:

Sometimes I just like to free paint…with no outcome in mind at all. I see a bunch of animals in this one. What do you see?

More free painting. I see people in this one:

This day I used the same random loose style on a wood feather:

A few chicken doodles:

Some mindless watercolor doodling:

A quick landscape sketch for this day:

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I’m writing this up while watching The Shootist so hopefully there aren’t too many typos. It’s the last movie John Wayne ever made…and it’s the first time I’ve ever watched it. There are so many stars in it: Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart, Harry Morgan. Anyway, here’s what I painted in week 9:

A drawing with ink with one of my favorite scriptures:

I loved the feathers so much that I decided to add them onto a layered painting I’d been working on: 

I mixed this day up a little and made this little found object robot using things I’ve collected from walks on the lake bed and with my metal detector:

An ink drawing on wood:

I needed some artwork that would fit a large frame for a gallery wall I’m finishing up…and these geometric mountains ended up being my art of the day.

A geometric fish on barn wood:

“I caught you a delicious bass.” 

An abstract mountain watercolor:

And onto week 10:

A page in one of my journals:

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” -Robert Frost

I didn’t really feel like painting on this particular day. Happy didn’t feel well and I was really worried about her. She’s doing so much better thank goodness!

A small abstract painting on canvas. Someone on Facebook said they wanted this made into a rug. I want it made into a rug too! Who would do that?

An landscape in oil…inspired by a recent stay at the Biltmore Estate:

This day I was working on a commission in progress: 

A simple line of watercolor trees:

“I never saw a discontented tree.” -John Muir

A layered acrylic and enamel painting on reclaimed plywood:

And I’m still working on my button/stitch a day project….just haven’t had a chance to post any photos. Here’s a closeup:

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Thanks for looking and reading and all that other good stuff!