Desert Sunset

Desert Sunset
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WM Oils on Yupo. Inspiration photo from my friend, Dani John.

Beach Bike - WM Oils on Yupo

Beach Bike - WM Oils on Yupo
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Water miscible oils on Yupo. One of the hardest steps for me in using oils is that I lose my sketch lines and have a hard time finding them and redrawing with paint! I'm SO used to drawing and the graphite staying on the paper while I watercolor. Drawing this bike was most DIFFICULT for me and I didn't get it right, but figured I'd post it anyway. I DO like the way my pot and plant came out :)

AV Annie Oakleys

AV Annie Oakleys
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This is a commission piece done for a local women's shooting group. Done in watercolor on Acquarello Artistico paper with WN paints. This painting depicts subjects common to the Antelope Valley (AV) which are it's beautiful sunsets, a large desert valley surrounded by mountains, joshua trees, poppies and the California quail. The group will be formatting this for a logo -- possible shape suggestion is a hexagon.

Landscape 2 - Yupo

Landscape 2 - Yupo
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Watersoluble oils on Yupo. (The light line through this is not on the painting, it is reflected light from the photo I took.) This ref photo is probably too complex for someone who has not painted in oils (that would be ME) -- but I did enjoy the challenge. I'm still finding that I really like watersoluble oils on Yupo!!

Landscape 2 - Canvas

Landscape 2 - Canvas
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My second landscape for the oil class. Reference photo is from WetCanvas and is one of their August Challenges in their new forum, Water Solube Oils.

Landscape-Yupo

Landscape-Yupo
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Yupo version of lesson 4 from Nel's Oil Painting Class. It was difficult to get the sky in and to soften the cloud edges on Yupo. I have some ideas to try to improve this on Yupo the next time around. Ain't it fun experimenting and learning?! Roadway is too purple and since I was painting this side-by-side with the canvas version, that's the biggest boo boo on both of these landscapes.

Landscape-Canvas

Landscape-Canvas
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Nel's Oil Painting Class assignment for lesson 4. It's quite obvious that I got the road too purple : )
Otherwise. . . this was a fun assignment.