Follow your Whims in Art

A whim is a strange or capricious notion; a temporary eccentricity. A person or thing that has many whims can be called whimsical.Art has passion and a whim can often change the direction of that artistic passion.

Following a whim can add new life to your art let your passion be fun and always explore possibilities.

When I paint my small daily paintings I try out new ideas. These small works are usually 5x7, so if I find an idea that intrigues me I can develop it into a larger work.

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The Painting Challenge

If you like painting challenges you might want to check this out.

The challenge: Paint this image using only burnt sienna, ultramarine blue and titanium white. That's it. No other colors. With that combo you can have it look pretty darn close to a full color painting by achieving a wide array of values and temperatures.

Every DPW (Daily Paintworks) a group of wonderful daily painters has a challenge and anyone can give it a try. The fun part is all the paintings are post on their blog for all to see. Most of the paintings are for sale. If you would like to see what has been posted for the Zippo Challenge click here. Michael Naples, a great daily painter, posted this weeks challenge. There are over 100 zippo lighter posted so stop in a take a look.

Zippo Lighter

About This Painting:
Zippo Lighter
7x5 oil painting

Media: oil painting
Size: 5 in X 7 in (12.7 cm X 17.8 cm)

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Still Life with Wine

After I get the still life set up I take some place ment measurements with my brush. Here I am checking to se where the glass hits the bottle.
Here I am looking for where the glass and bottle hit.
How high is the grapefruit next to the glass.
In this painting I used heavy paint and brush work. As you can see I added the wine t the painting for color.
Here are a few of my recent daily paintings. To view more of these small paintings visite my blog Painting of the Day.

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The Still Life

Once I have tones the canvas I start the still life.
I get a few house hold items of different sizes and shapes. Then I start the drawing. I work on the relationship of the objects. I decide which object will be my anchor and where I want to break the edges. I do not want a still life where everything is right in the center of the canvas.

I make a quick drawing in yellow ochre. Drawing is the most important part of the painting but I don't want this to be a drawing , it is a painting so the drawing is just a place where I start.

I will post more tomorrow.

Here a few of my recent daily paintings more of my daily paintings can be seen on my blog Painting of the Day.

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Establishing Value in an oil painting.

Starting with a white canvas.One of the most important aspects of a painting is value and contrast.

Defining value in an oil painting is easier on a tinted canvas. The initial layer of paint can serve as a base for painting or just as a point to establish values later in the painting. Here I have uses a light wash of turpentine and burnt umber mixed with a little virdian

This will help serve as a base guide not as integral background element. The above background base will be used on a quick still life. I also use this method of toning a background when I Plien Air painting.

Sometimes at the end of the day when I have left over paint I will paint background under painting to be used later. when I do this I like to put on several coats of paint, let each layer dry then sanding between the layers. This then will be a very important part of that panting.

See what I paint on this. More tomorrow.

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. – Joe Girard

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Are you having fun yet

Are you having fun yet?

It's February already and I should be at 8% of my yearly goal for 2011. I can relax things are on schedule as planed. I have been nurturing the inner self with a few good books,great friends,and wonderful music. I have always been fascinated by those who can paint pictures with words,reading is an obsession for me. It is one of the fun things I do.

How do you define fun? I suspect our definitions of fun are quite different. The way we have fun impacts our goals and defines who we are. Fun for me is doing what most people consider work. My life is about learning,doing and oh boy having fun meeting my daily challenges, I hope all of you are nurturing who you really are, by having fun.

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Below are a few of my daily paintings.One of the ways have fun.

"Failure is Not an Option -- It comes bundled with the
software."


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Seize the Day, Paint on

Everyday has only so many hours in it. As a creative professional my work requires me to generate new ideas, rework old ones,read, stay inspired, and make the most of each day.Seizing the day becomes my focus.I wonder how I can get just one more drop of potential from it.

I want to make my mark. Should it be in crayon, pencil,watercolor, or oils. The choices loam before me a blaze of chroma.

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