Thursday, January 29, 2015

30/30 Challenge - Angel - Day 29

During this 30/30 Challenge my own subject matter has been all over the place from indoor studio still life, portrait from life, and landscape. Included rendering same subject matter from photos to reinforce how differently the colors are represented. Certainly not a body of work for gallery representation, but what a pleasure to just play and experiment. I've learned that I love to paint anything and everything.

After the end of the challenge, I'll narrow it down and select a few things to concentrate on for awhile. Since so many questions have come up while working on certain subjects, I'll be quite busy with my journal too.

Questions that you might also be asking are:
Why do I paint? Why this subject?
Is it a big idea or just something to practice craft?
What's my real motive - self fulfillment, therapy, money, etc.?
Is the idea related to art concepts or just a copy of something sitting on a shelf?
Does each start have an intention? What is a successful painting?
Is this one better or worse than the last one? Am I making any progress at all????
Many more...

Day 29

My daughter's kitty, named Angel, went to kitty heaven recently, and I thought I'd do a little study for her. Finding a good photo wasn't easy, but notice the double heart shape on her chest fur-so cute!?

One of my personal goals was to start something new everyday, have to say, I came close. Only a couple were longer projects, but there was a reason behind the shift in the plan - mostly because I was trying slightly different things in one painting each day.

Since I'll be headed to a meeting, this will be one of several starts to be finish after the challenge this month.

6 comments:

  1. The painting is lovely and I think the red ball adds a perfect touch. You call this a study!!!!

    I like the way you analyzed the challenge. I should do that. By now I knew NOT to have a theme. Like you I have painted different things. Much easier.
    hard to see all the posts as there are so many taking part.

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    1. I think of it as a study because I'm not quite sure how to treat the fur... not much detail in the photo and need to determine a light source too.

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    1. Thank you for commenting... I hope my daughter will be happy with the results!

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    1. Hi Sue, Thank you for your comment! I plan to finish this up next week!

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