Art By Mishelle: August 2015

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Sea Turtles for me are interesting to paint because of all the textures and the sea bottom

is so abstract. You can see what it is but I have so much fun with the shapes in the design.

Tide Pool II

I tend to go choose the most difficult paintings to create.

I love tide pools! I have great memories with my girls at the beach in

the NW and now here in California finding them. This painting was inspired by

the tide pools of Mendocino, California. Although it did start out

vastly different, I ended up using more imagination than my photo

by the end. I was getting too detailed in all the colors and things

going on in the photo, so I finally took away the photo and just

painted. I included beach sand from this coast into the painting, which is a lot

of fun. This is for sale at my online gallery.

This is from a photo I took when I was up in Long Beach

Washington and have been wanting to paint it.

It's been a while since I painted in watercolor and I was enjoying the process.

This one isn't for sale since

I'm not real happy with the colors. I plan on trying

another one with a better plan on colors.

My family was able to come out to see us for the first time since we moved to the coast.

It went way too fast for all of us since they could only stay for four days. It took a full

day just to get here! So 2 of the 6 days were spent traveling.

The 2nd photo is of my mom, cousin and me on the balcony where my cousin stayed.

He had amazing views of the ocean! And we were able to see whales! My sister and brother in law stayed just above and also the views were fantastic!

The 3rd photo I took was the day after everyone left. The sun was so red from all the fires

that have been burning

So now that everyone has left, it's time for me to get back in the studio and our

daughter to go back to school. I found several photos I took that have given me some

painting ideas!

Rufus Hummingbird

These tiny jewels have always fascinated me! To watch them

go backwards, forwards and straight up and down and

every which way, they look like they are having more fun than

most birds around them! I don't have the greatest camera, so taking

photos is difficult. With the photos I work with I get enough

of what they look like to help paint them the way I like.