Day 31

More Spirit Horses

I was having so much fun doing these horses that I took this old painting:

and turned it on its side:

And voila! A spirit horse appears!

And then I took an old canvas full of left-over paint and found this horse waiting:

Day 30

Spirit Horses

In class Kathy encouraged us to use an old painted canvas to inspire our spirit horses.  Here are 2 of Kathy’s examples:

Here is my painting:

I wasn’t happy with it so when I got home I took a closer look at Kathy’s horse:

 

And then I tried again and made 2 horses:

Horse 1

Horse 2

Day 29

I was inspired by this National Geographic cover:



Our art teacher Kathy keeps reminding us to look for the shapes when creating a picture and here I could see the triangle of the polar bear’s head and his ears and the oval of his feet and went from there.  Here is the result:

Day 28

Not your Degas Dancer....

So after looking at my flamingos, I had this idea, what if I put some toe shoes on a flamingo?  I mean they certainly have the legs for it, and their plumage does kind of resemble a tutu....

Day 27

A Flock of Flamingos!

I had so much fun painting my flamingo that I decided to paint more flamingos.  Here’s one:

And then another:

And another:

And another:

And finally:

And then I thought to flock them all together:

Day 26

Flamingo

I saw a JCrew ad that featured whimsical paint sketches and I was inspired to try to recreate the flamingo sketch.  Here is the result:

 

Day 25

Degas Again

At home I attempted to paint a ballet dancer that didn’t resemble a high school student wearing her school uniform and a got a ballet dancer who resembled Barbie:

<sigh>

So I tried it again and this time I got an Audrey Hepburn dancer.....

It’ll be a while before I ever try another dancer......