One More Glazing and It's Done

So yesterday I put a glaze over the painting and it felt like the turtle was a little more in it's environment. I noticed that it needed more the the dark background around the turtle's body to give it more punch. After that I decided one more glaze over the painting will finish it nicely. I'll give it a few days to dry before doing that. In the meantime off to do another series of birds of northern California. I'll post that here in a day or two.

Family Emergency And Getting Back To My Turtle

I can't believe I've been gone so long from painting and blogging. I had a family emergency that took me to Michigan for almost a month then trying to get back to a routine again has for the most part been difficult.

I started on my turtle earlier in September and here is where I'm at now. The turtle seems to sit on top of the painting and not in it, so I'm going to paint a glaze on it which will have the turtle be part of the environment it's in. I will finish it tomorrow and post the final results.

Sea Turtle Sketch For New Painting

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.

New Tide Pool Painting

Tide Pool II

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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.

Riding On The Beach

Riding On The Beach

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.

Family

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!

One Of My Favorite Birds To Watch & Paint!

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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.