Stealth Painting Project #2: Targus & Zoot
Tara Choate In September, I participated in a 30 Paintings in 30 days challenge and made it to day 27 before it kind of fell apart. On Labor Day I did a…
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The First Painting Night of 2015
I am still finishing a stealth project, so no photos there. I am trying to concentrate on paintings for the Equine Art Show (in July), so I started one based…
The obligatory year end post
In the last year I’ve spent a lot of time looking at other people’s blogs, getting ideas about what I’m doing right, wrong, and everything in between. If you read…
Stealth painting project #1
As I told you, I was doing quite a bit of painting in December, I just couldn’t show it to you; however, one of my projects has been delivered, so…
Online Studio Sale Day 14 (last day)
I originally sketched this as part of the SYD series at the Fall 2012 Watercolor Society of Oregon convention; in this case SYD stands for simplify your drawing. When I…
Online Studio Sale Day 12 & 13
Trackside Discussion I The reference photo for this was also taken at Emerald Downs during the 2013 Equine Art show. This horse was being lead back to the barn by…
Online Studio Sale Day 10 & 11
Living in Oregon City, Willamette Falls is a big deal. Many people don’t know Willamette Falls in the second largest waterfall in North America by volume (beaten only by Niagra…
Online Studio Sale Day 9: Whim by Whim
After completing “Ripples” I was inspired to try a little more and did an acrylic underlayer with burlap. Then I used some novelty paper to create some pours. From that…
Online Studio Sale Day 8: Ripples
My teacher, Anji Grainger, took a class from Lynda Hoffman-Snodgrass and then came back to class and encouraged everyone to practice this new skill set. I really enjoyed this piece…