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ep a growing inventory of reference photos i keep 500 photographs on my desk at all times and also a large cache of pics on my computer create a folder called yummy things to paint and add to it constantly this will become your source for quick inspiration surround yourself with examples of other artist s work pin up a variety of reproductions of paintings in varying subject matter and compositions especially of things you d never think to paint this keeps your eyes fresh reading art books or just flipping through the pretty pictures is another way to stay inspired paint fast it keeps the boredom away working on the same painting for long periods of time sucks your energy and tends to leave you dry winslow homer tells the tale of painting models on the beach he was into day four of the painting and got bored so he hired a kid to pour water on his subjects suddenly after 4 days of attempting to finish the painting he did so in 30 minutes practice often with variety of styles colour themes subject matter and techniques to expand your repertoire use the try and true method patented by julie hamilton of paint and pitch trying things out again and again until you are familiar with the technique and then switch to something new don t worry if you make lots of false starts just start thinking and painting are two different beasts in my studio i keep 2 easels one is for creating and the other is for evaluation i create on the painting easel and the other easel is for critique that s where you hunker down into the big comfy chair and wallow in the harshness of self analyzation for this process i suggest a wee dram of scotch music change it up if you have the same routine daily expect the same outcome daily music is an important detail in setting the mood and shifting your mind into unfamiliar territory playing a variety of music genres will help keep you on your toes treat yourself for your efforts there is nothing like framing your best artwork in a beautiful exotic frame when it looks that good it makes you excited to do another move your finished paintings around once you start painting lots your studio will likely become your own private gallery don t let your work hang in the same place too long rotate it and add some of your new work to keep things fresh put some juice back in the gas tank strangely painting all the time can drain your creativity you can t always give without getting something back go see some live theatre hit the movies or dance to a live band there is nothing more inspiring than seeing someone else create they give you receive there are a bajillion more things one could do to keep inspired please share your favourite tricks for staying inspired your friend in art doug 1 comment sunday november 15 2015 spot the differences everyone is familiar with the game challenge that displays two images and you have to see if you can spot the differences between them this is how i felt with this painting i wanted to do a quick study referenced from photos i took while having a wonderful dinner at the hardware grill with gallery owner wendy wacko our table was right beside the open concept window displayed kitchen although it was not very polite of me to be snapping pictures while we ate i hung the painting beside me as i worked at my computer desk i kept glancing at it as i worked critiquing jotting down and itemizing areas that could use improvement mostly to simplify and lose or soften edges once i was finished i took my notes to the studio and finished the painting see if you can spot at least 10 differences 1 comment friday november 13 2015 waterfalls waterfalls are probably my most favorite subject to paint i have painted so many that i really don t need any photo references and when i do use a reference unless i really need it to look like an iconic scene i deviate a lot there are just so many abstract and compositional possibilities so much freedom and creative play which makes the whole process so much more satisfying many times i will have a lot of left over paint on my palette which i grab with my palette knife and slather on a blank canvas most of the time this paint will have a lot of gel in it so i will have a canvas already primed with texture this was the case with these two paintings a lot of gel palette knife glazes and more detailed brushwork towards the end the amount of glazes and veils i used made photographing these paintings very difficult you just can t see the delicate intricacies subtle color changes and vibrancy 1 comment tuesday november 10 2015 holding on i guess i m still holding on to fall i m really not looking forward to all that ice and freezing cold weather so a few more autumn paintings will be coming as i really hadn t finished exploring this subject this is a study loosely based on a scene from vermillion lakes acrylic 20 x 10 2 comments friday october 30 2015 christmas in the country leighton center s christmas in the country november 7 15 2015 is their popular annual fundraiser and art sale this non profit organization nestled in the beautiful foothills of calgary boasts a vibrant and open space for creativity connects you to art history and landscape to learn more about the centre and directions please visit their website christmas in the country features over 100 local artists each offering up to 15 unframed art works for you to flip through from abstract to realism a variety of mediums from professionals to armatures there will something for everyone i will be offering 15 small works including landscape figurative and animals i will be volunteering sat afternoon nov 7 and hope to see you there here are a few samples of the small paintings i will be offering 1 comment sunday october 18 2015 small equines leighton centre s christmas in the country is an event i haven t participated in for a few years i thought i would enter a couple of equines in a looser style i m quite happy with these two 11 x 14 and 12 x 12 yet to ne named the 11 x 14 is a complete overhaul of a previous equine i had done a few years back i can t believe how much better it is now such a transformation i might even keep the title of gentle nudge no comments thursday october 8 2015 to face or not to face my husband doesn t like my figure drawings paintings that s totally fine it took him a long time to appreciated my landscapes also however he is so very supportive of my work and my career even if he isn t an art person as he puts it when i first started bringing home stuff from my live model sessions he would comment where are the faces or i guess you don t know who to draw faces i tried to explain i was drawing figures and shapes not a person i wanted to create mystery and have the viewer insert their own idea of who it represents his comment got me thinking do i know how to draw faces i tried a couple small face paintings of family members and totally bombed i was being to literal too tight too picky too realistic too everything and i spent hours on these little paintings this is not how i wanted to paint what happened to me wanting to experiment with more abstract work maybe i couldn t paint faces after all i decided to study other artists whose worked i liked and admired michael maczuga ingrid christensen scott burdick nancy guzik and fellow acrylic painter chantel barber just to name a few i wanted a more painterly loose and free feel to my faces and of course working in acrylics makes it even more difficult i gave up on my family members thinking i was trying too hard to achieve a likeness which was not my goal i found some free stock models used a larger brush decided to paint faster and not make any lines only shapes i know my proportions are a little off but painting this way allows for more freedom from painting within the lines i have a long long way to go but i am beginning to see the light a lot more modeling sessions and studying for me but i am not giving up on my faceless paintings either sorry husband i thought i d share a couple of faces and faceless paintings i have been working on 2 comments sunday october 4 2015 a revisit some of you may disagree but i felt this painting needed a revisit simplify simplfy sinplify and add some mystery this was a small painting 12 x 12 with way too much information all that busyness from the bicycles was distracting and too many details and hard edges on the foreground figure i also toned down the color and made more use of the greys now with less detail more mystery softer edges and larger dominate shapes it is a more unified painting although now as i write this i can see it still needs a few minor adjustments 2 comments thursday october 1 2015 tapestry while exploring figurative work is fun and refreshing it is also very challenging as i continue to try and find my voice in this genre mostly i draw and paint figures not people so i have been leaving out the faces i prefer the viewer to fill in the missing pieces so they can identify more with the work and not concentrate on the face of a particular person down the road i may tackle portraits however in this particular piece i blurred the face but found it lacking because it was not so much abstracted i felt it needed a face i like it much better now you be the judge small 20 x 10 acrylic i call this tapestry because it reminds me of a little girl who is trying on her new tapping shoes for her tap dancing lessons the challenge here was to create softness and keeping the brush strokes loose difficult with acrylics but made a little easier by adding texture to the surface and lots of glazes i m curious to see what you think no comments friday september 25 2015 painting the same image while doing a demo for the cochrane art group i decide to paint a painting similar to one i had done before i understand this is a common practice for many instructors it is easier to talk and more relaxing to be able to explain techniques choices etc when you are comfortable with your painting however in my demonstration with a palette knife and using gels it is impossible for me to finish a painting in the allotted time so i started a new canvas and went as far as i could half completing the painting it need several hours to dry so like those cooking shows i magically produced another similar half completed dry painting to continue with my demo the question posed to me was do you or clients have a problem with producing the same paintings over and over again good question first with my technique none of my painting are ever identical second when i have a commission based on a previous painting which happens a lot i explain that i will only use the original as an inspiration not to copy thirdly very often i will do a smaller study of the same scene and if i still feel the need to explore the subject i will paint a few but in different sizes and orientation and lastly as in my demo since i was using the same size canvas i decide to make one warm and one cool no comments wednesday september 23 2015 cochrane demo while demonstrating one of my mountain scenes for the cochrane art group i found myself with some extra time so i pulled out a painting i had planned to make better by adding a few things here and there but after a few flopped attempts i scrapped it all off and proceeded to paint over the whole canvas using a lot of bright colors very abstractly eventually i had an idea where i wanted to go with it i promised i would finish it and post it on my blog so here it is i also made a little video clip to show the process however i didn t do any color corrections on the stills so they are a little off i hope you can open the clip no comments monday september 21 2015 adding some punch acrylic 11 x 14 this little guy was hanging around my studio for quite sometime i liked it but it wasn t quite right something was missing or wrong i like trusting my gut today a light blub went off i realized the foreground branch really wasn t saying too much what was the reason for it and was it important to the painting i decided to make it my focal area and give it some punch or pizzazz i like it much better now and i m ready to part with him no comments sunday september 20 2015 early autumn afternoon jasper national park it was a beautiful misty drive through jasper national park with the sun peaking through the clouds and the autumn color in the foreground the mountains were so majestic and looming acrylic 22 x 28 no comments saturday september 19 2015 through the haze study i was working on a landscape painting to be completed at a demo i m doing for an art group in cochrane on tuesday and i had mixed too much paint so i grabbed a 11 x 14 canvas to use up the rest of the paint this little painting emerged in less than an hour gotta love it when that happens this will be my study for a larger and longer orientation painting no comments friday september 18 2015 live model painting part two calgary figure drawing group hosted a 3 hour long live model session what a treat to have only one pose all night i definitely will attend this one on thursdays regularly check out their facebook group page if you are interested link i did a reference sketch first in case i needed to do some touch ups in my studio now that i see it online i realize i was a little tighter than i would have liked don t worry i m not going to show every little sketch and painting i do this will be it for awhile it s just exciting to venture into this new subject matter and try out various techniques i hope to develop a quality body of figurative work over the next year or so i still love my landscapes though and will be switching back and forth below is a detail of the painting click to see larger no comments live model painting tuesday night was live model drop in drawing painting at swintons it was very busy with 21 artists i managed a lot of sketches but was more excited to paint but the only long pose was the last one and it was only 25 minutes i m normally a fast painter but i was even more so that night i was quite happy with the results and only did some minor tweaking when i got in my studio which was difficult without the model and light source here is my 25 minute painting 25 x 22 inches and a couple of my favorite sketches and a detail close up click on it to see larger view no comments tuesday september 15 2015 johnstons canyon acrylic 30 x 30 i went on a week glamping trip with three painting buddies a few months ago to do some plein air painting and hiking my knees were bad so i didn t do much hiking and it was raining so i didn t do much plein air but we did paint in and around our cabin however these two paintings are not them i started these shortly after in my studio and just got around to finishing them both from the same reference a little tighter than i would have like and very hard to see the texture through the photographs no comments figure sketching it s time to get back into some figuring drawing with a live 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