Light beer, 6 by 6 oil on board I did it to put it on "Carol Marine art challenge"  and I just happened to be changing  a light bulb wile having a beer.

Finally

       Trisha  36 by 72 oil on canvas,    Well! its about time! 2012 iv hardly painted at all and it can get very difficult to even want to pick up a paint brush . In order to get motivated I picked something for myself .
          

                                    Its been a wile, you may want to scroll down a bit to see my first two blogs about Trisha.     After getting it close enough I started to paint. This is more my style than a pure "classical style".  at this point I started with colour in the sort of correct places, thick on the painting because...

            where I differ a bit is I mix on the painting itself and end up thin or "scumbled". At this point you can see uneven drying in the black, and still more refining to do, note: at the end of this day the dark marks around the lips, chin, above the ear ,etc. This is where I saw I drifted and "pushed"some corrections.

              Not the best photo but I think its done, though I have yet to varnish it. It will "pop" then. It is a "study" so im not too concerned about much more than how it feels. although I am pleased about the hair colour. the ear ring and necklaces were done using "french curves" , up close there bits of light and dark only because I was painting Trisha not her jewellery....

                  Its all good! at an auction a couple of months ago this painting sold. for a good chunk or change$$ so  "Free the Children" did well and so did I. im told its now part of a corporate collection in Toronto .           http://www.artforachange.ca/ 

6 of 9 "peanut paintings" (small) for one of the gallery's im in that wants them for some Christmas gift baskets.

                     12" by 16" oil on canvas,  "Toronto row houses"  Ill be doing more of Trisha soon but I have other paintings I need to do including this one and a bunch of  6" by 6" " "wine glass paintings"

     Step 2:    An unfortunately poor photograph but it doesn't matter . I used walnut alkyd and thinner to speed up drying time on the red umber so I was able to work on it a day later. after a bit more refining in the red umber I jumped into the "dead colour" phase , a simple close enough is good enough colour match and blocking in of basic shapes etc. its easy to see lack of detail and an unrefined look including a need to improve on the accuracy of Trisha's face . I still need to "make it more like". It is now that the painting actually starts.