Painting 13/30: "Seems Like Summer"

"Seems Like Summer"

14" x 11"

Oil on Canvas

$500

It is an absolutely gorgeous day....incredible for the middle of January!  It feels like spring and painting yellow roses today made it feel almost like summer!  I'm so glad I had some roses still hanging in there to be painted today.  It was another stretch.  Still working on using cool light instead of warm.  I think it was easier today, but honestly, yesterday I felt like somebody shook my head up!

Day 13....getting closer to finishing another 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge!

Thanks for looking and, if you are interested in purchasing this painting, 

you can click this link to go to my website:

http://barbaradavisart.com/works/1362771/seems-like-summer

Painting 11/30: "A Rose Among the Thorns"

"A Rose Among the Thorns"

7"x5"

Oil on Board

$175

I'll admit....this one was frustrating.  I want to paint beautiful roses and it....is....so.....hard!!

I fiddled around with it longer than I anticipated, but there are plenty of roses in my vase and tomorrow is another day.  

I took a fantastic workshop from Qiang Huang in 2012 and he paints the most gorgeous roses, incredible brushwork.  He is really someone to study and such a nice person, too!  Study, study, study....paint, paint, paint!  That's what I love about the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge.  I have in my mind something I want to experiment with or something tough for me to paint and I just keep trying to tackle it with small paintings - sometimes larger ones, like yesterday. 

So because this little thing gave me a frustrated fit, even though I like the way it turned out, 

I'm naming it "A Rose Among the Thorns"!

If you are interested in purchasing this painting, please click this link to take you to my website:

http://barbaradavisart.com/works/1361200/a-rose-among-the-thorns

Thanks, as always, for looking!