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sara winters fine art sara winters fine art original paintings in oil wednesday march 11 2015 still chugging along those little globs of paint add up after a while still not quite there yet only a couple hundred thousand more brush strokes to go haha posted by sara winters at 5 58 pm 1 comment water blocking it in oops lost some definition in a few spots but it feels good to have the base down for this chunk of the painting i love posting these progress pics because they help me see what needs to be changed it s so much fun watching a painting work its way out of the brush here s a close up of some really fun juicy paint i am soooooo loving the simplicity of these roots posted by sara winters at 3 24 pm no comments labels wip close up detail wednesday february 25 2015 my little helper ha bless his heart both boys want to help with this one but the younger age 2 didn t bother to ask for permission i had trouble reprimanding him because i was so impressed with his brushwork and he handled the palette knife and my brushes very well with way more respect than most children give a tool of that sort i think it is time to upgrade his painting supplies from watercolor to something more opaque buttery and all out luscious well close to that i ll start him on oils when i move into the new studio space here is the clean up so far i really like these roots and can see why so many artists choose to stop at this stage i will not be stopping though i ve made some progress this week but can t help but feel i am a little behind schedule i have a 3 4 x6 canvas waiting to be primed and started it sits behind me and stares waiting waiting for its turn at transformation i find myself falling in love with this painting regardless of its incomplete imperfections there are a billion and one brush strokes in this piece and and at least that much more to finish it learning to slow down and find joy in the process a lesson that is never fully learned i think posted by sara winters at 8 10 pm no comments labels wip blocking it in please excuse the glare slapping on some color still just base coats nothing final yet i am really enjoying this piece my youngest has been on a lego movie kick so when i look at certain parts of the painti funny how strong connections in our brains can be with very little effort on a conscious level when i was a teenager i would listen to music while reading my favorite pastime was immersing myself in a good book anyway there is an album called in my time by yanni that i listened to while reading and to this day when i listen to songs from that album i can see the images my imagination conjured up from the books i read some were fantasy books with knights and castles and mythical creatures but the most vivid images are those from all quiet on the western front as i replay snippets of the music in my mind i see yellow and pale lime green leaves on trees pattering against one another in the gentle breeze in a scene described in the book the main character was alone away from the blood and terror and loss and he saw beauty in the simple things most everyone of us takes for granted i still love that book there are emotions and colors and smells and sounds all wrapped up and forever connected in my mind to a few quiet rippling succession of notes each painting is the same way whatever we focus on our thoughts and emotions are tied into every brush stroke my business mentor told me once that an artist paints from the heart much more literally than we like to admit he said that you can always tell when an artist is struggling with something in therei personal life because the paintings are off but only until the artist can put their heart back to rights so true my creative bursts are cyclical but i have had my fair share of letting putter crumminess affect my work one day i will keep a record and see if the moon or the stars or the seasons have much influence over my insanely productive periods or if it is all just chance or the cosmos tossing me bits of artistic growth like cookies sweet little rewards for painting when i don t want to or when i feel like i have lost forever that divine connection we mistakenly call inspiration jibber jabber posted by sara winters at 7 50 pm no comments monday february 16 2015 déjà vu untitled wip 48 x60 nick wants to call this déjà vu two or three years ago i started painting this image it irritated the life out of me i shredded the canvas and tossed the remains on the burn pile nick has been mourning over that painting all this time so i am giving it another go just to make him happy the first piece was jacked in so many ways i wasn t comfortable working this size at that point plus i wasn t comfortable doing as much rearranging nature the way i do now it was a good experience though sometimes an object gets too big for its britches even if just in our own minds and it needs to be put in its place the best bit of knowledge i took from that experience is that a painting is just a painting and i won t die or lose all my hair or witness the world imploding just because a painting doesn t turn out the way i hoped i am glad i got to start fresh with it instead of trying to eternally try to fix a painting i didn t like goes back to the bones of the piece if the underlying structure isn t good the odds of working it into something good are pretty slim but this is important if the basic composition works you can do all sorts of tweaking and find yourself with something worthwhile that s tweaking not twerking please no twerking in the studio or the garden or the house or anywhere else for that matter i am enjoying this round with this subject much better than the first i knocked down some trees planted some others pushed some to grow in a different direction and will be taking full advantage of my artistic license in the rest of the piece working to have this finished for the july showcase along with the next painting in line another bigger piece that i am soooooo looking forward to painting i may or may not share the process on that one might just be selfish and keep it all to myself muahaha posted by sara winters at 10 45 pm 2 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom subscribe via email enter your email address delivered by feedburner about me sara winters fredericksburg texas united states i am a self taught oil painting artist i use a limited palette quinacridone red ultramarine blue cadmium yellow light and titanium white www sarawintersart com view my complete profile blog archive 2015 6 march 2 still chugging along water blocking it in february 4 2014 6 december 2 november 1 september 2 july 1 2013 2 january 2 2012 13 september 2 june 1 april 1 february 2 january 7 2011 3 october 1 september 2 2010 5 february 4 january 1 2009 103 december 1 november 1 october 3 september 8 august 8 july 11 june 3 may 15 april 17 march 18 february 10 january 8 2008 15 december 3 november 1 october 2 september 9 subscribe to posts atom 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