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#OneWeek100People 2024 : Bonus Day : What if you just made it all up?
Question for you: Why are you doing #OneWeek100People? I’ve spent most of my adult life just getting good at drawing – for no particular reason. Besides the reason, ‘I love drawing’. That’s the best...
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It’s time again for #30x30DirectWatercolor! But I have a confession to make :)
This will be the seventh year of #30×30! (You can look back at my past years HERE.) And of course I’m talking about our annual online painting marathon where we encourage each other to make thirty...
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2024 #30×30: Day 02 Work and Rework
Today’s painting, showing the morning’s work, side by side with the afternoon paint-over :) In some ways I didn’t change much, in other ways it’s a whole new painting. This is what I’m talking about;...
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2024 #30×30 : Day 03 : Title Case, or a Case for Titles
10×10″, Oil on Panel, Title: “Just try to leave a thought unthought,” he said. “Can’t do it, can you?” For a long time I didn’t believe in titling work. I thought perhaps, it was even a bit...
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2024 #30×30 Day 04 : Spit vs. Isthmus
“In summary, a spit,” he said, with a finger pressed to the bridge of his glasses, and growing worry that his audience was drifting away, “is a projecting depositional feature; whereas an isthmus is a...
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2024 #30×30 Day 05
10×10″, Oil on Panel “What if,” he asked, “there was an island where dreams came true?” She laughed through her nose and bit her thumb. “Make sure you’re alone out there.”
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2024 #30×30 Day 06
10×10″ Oil on Panel. “Ug. So much green.” “There’s a rare green pigment made by scraping verdigris from Shang vessels.” “What? That’s bullshit.”
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2024 #30×30 Day 07:
10×10″ Oil on Panel “Stop trying to impose meaning,” he says. “It’s not about anything.” She turns, eyeless behind her shades. “Quoi? J’avais mes écouteurs.”
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2024 #30×30 Day 08
10×10″ Oil on Panel “The Journey was a dream, the destination a myth, but I have this rock in my pocket.”
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2024 #30×30 Day 09
10×10″ Oil on Panel One day she asks me, “What if you have a vivid memory of place, but you’ve never been there.” “Is that possible?” “Just say it is.” “Ok?” “Well – then, it’s...
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2024 #30×30 Day 10
10×10″ Oil on Panel “Choose your goals wisely,” says the sage. “You only get three of them.” I stand there, legs trembling, gulping at the thin air. “Just kidding,” he winks. “You might...
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2024 #30×30 Day 11 : The Loaded Brush (or Knife)
10×10″ Oil on Panel “What is that saying about stepping in the same river thrice?’ Every painting starts by making piles of color. I just make piles of color till I have everything I need to fill...
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2024 #30×30 Day 12 : Compulsive Nature
10×10″ Oil on Panel. Untitled today! Because I’m not sure if I like this one. But- the more I look at it, the more I like it. But my first reaction was that it didn’t turn out. Most likely thing is;...
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2024 #30×30 Day 14 : Redux
This is another example of deleting a painting. After finishing the one on the left, it felt a little chaotic. The impasto wasn’t working for me. It’s just instinct really, but I want the raised...
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2024 #30×30 Day 20 : Sick Leave
To my great annoyance, I have been sick for – what? 10 days now? Thankfully not Covid. I had been painting along regardless, but there came a day when it got quite a bit worse. I’m 100% congested. Can...
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2024 #30×30 Day 21 : Above the Chaos
10×10 Oil on Panel “What are you calling this one?” “Not sure,” he says, “Rising Above?…the…Chaos?”
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2024 #30×30 Day 22
10×10″ Oil on Panel “I can see right through it,” he says, neck craning, looking around in wonder. I hold out a steadying hand, fingers just touching his chest.
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2024 #30×30 Day 25
10×10″ oil on Panel Make marks, scrap them off. Make marks, scrape them off. Piles of paint get larger, colors tend towards neutral. The painting grows a thicker skin.
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2024 #30×30 Day 27 : The Wrong Painting
10×10″ Oil on Panel Stepping back for a minute to discuss this objectively; this one is a miss-step in my series. It’s important to choose images / compositions that support my vision. It’s not just a...
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