One New, One Updated

Fib's Open Mic
Acrylic
12x24

Did this from a sketch made during the Sketchcrawl last November (blogged here).  This place has such a cool feel.  There's always something going on; open mic, movie night, live music.  The painting over the table (which isn't really there) is of a carving I picked up at the JJ market in Bangkok.  I wanted to bring something home that carried a bit of the serenity I found tucked in between the chaos and the angry demonstrations in Thailand.  I love this little yogini.  I have another half-done painting that I think she may find herself in.  She sits beside my bed, and is one of the first things I see in the morning, reminding me to breath and relax into the day.

Speaking of yoga, I'm in a good yoga groove right now.  I signed up at www.myyogaonline.com and have been doing a different practice pretty much every day for about a month now.  It's great, because I don't have to leave Yogi at home, and there's no travel time, and at about $10 a month, it's pretty bargainous.   The videos are good quality, and there's a huge range to choose from.  If you're using streaming video you can use any of them for that $10.  You can download the ones you like for a fee, which I did with a few of them so I can practice outside when I'm camping.  The Jivamukti ones are my fave at the moment.

This other painting is one I did quite a while ago.  There were parts of it I liked, and parts that made me wince when I looked at it, so I just 'adjusted' a few things.  I'm much happier with it now.

Gun Barrel at Night

Acrylic

24x36

'Morning Honey' and 'Guitar Heads'

'Morning Honey'
Acrylic 12x12


I'm heading to Wells for the Toni Onley Artist's Project in 9 days!!  I'm so excited.  My plan for the project is to make a sketchbook, fill it with local scenes, and then rework them in the studio in acrylic.  I've been working on some at home in preparation.  I want to make some of the mistakes I'll make here in private - get them out of the way before I get there.

I'm never sure when these things are finished.  I just paint til I stop.  This is from this sketch I did on Sketchcrawl day in May.  I just realized that the scan cut off the big O on the tree in the upper left hand corner.  My 13x17" scanner, it turns out, is really an 11.5x15" scanner.  Those little rascals at Brother.  Oh well.

'Guitar Heads'
Acrylic 12x16


This one is from one of my 'Every Day In May' sketches.  Original here.  Border is cut off, but looks cool on the orig.

Painting Workshop in Wells

I just got back from an amazing four day oil painting workshop in Wells, BC.  It was with Susan Madsen, who's work can be found at http://www.susanmadsen.com.  Yogi came with, as did Rhean (hot pink mohawk life drawing model from earlier post) to puppy sit during the day while I was in class, and to have an adventure.  We took my camper and stayed at the Cariboo Joy Campground.  Interesting spot.  More about that later.  We all had a great time, met lots of wonderful new people, sang around the campfire and roasted marshmallows and weenies.  Here are a couple of the paintings that I did.  I'm now in love with oil paints.  We got back at about 2 in the morning, and I spent my day setting up an oil painting studio in the basement of Greg's building.  I can't say enough about how good the workshop was.  If you paint and you ever get a chance to go to one of Susan's workshops, do it.  It was inspiring, instructive, really well laid out.  Thanks Susan!