Quick little painting, landscape

Hi, I'm keeping my four year old grandson for four days while his parents are in Aruba. I really didn't expect to get much painting done while he was here but when I put him down for his nap I thought I could do a little one. So this is in oil on a 5 X 7 canvas board, sometimes I like things better when I paint quickly and don't think so much about what I'm doing. I may paint this on a larger canvas later. I painted it in about an hour. Do you like it?? See you soon.

More practice

Hi, I finished this yesterday. It's in oil on a 8 X 10 canvas panel. I was practicing trying to push my values, I tried to paint darker darks and lighter lights. I thought it came out kind of interesting. Loosely painted from a photo of my niece but I wouldn't consider it a portrait. Have a good day.

Another try at a portrait, oil 8 X 10

Good Morning, I finished this last night, it's a portrait of my niece. I've only painted like two portraits so I think I'm improving. I'm trying to use darker colors in the face, I think the first few I did were too washed out. One of my other nieces is coming over to day, she's going to let me take a lot of photos of her. Hoping to get some good reference material. Let me know how I did. Take care. Barb

Red Team again

Here is my painting of the red team again. I made a few changes. I added a ball cap to the fellow on the left and painted his left leg showing and did some other small things. How does it look to you now? I signed up to take a portrait workshop in August, I never thought I'd be interested in painting portraits but I want to try everything. Susan Carlin really inspired me to give it a try, wish I lived closer to her. Bye

Still life- Oil 8X 10

Hi, I painted this still life today. I set this up for our group to paint this morning. One gal painted it large and close up and ran it off the canvas, I liked her composition much better than mine. Maybe I'll try it again and do something similar. It's hard to share a still life set up, not everyone can have the best view. Worked a bit more on the Red Team, maybe I'll finish it soon. Have a great day!

The Red Team

Hi, I took this photo in the park the other day, I thought what a cute subject to paint. It's painted in oil on a 11 X 14 stretched canvas. Not quite sure I'm finished with it, helps to get it on here and take a good look at it. Hope you like it.

Looking for treasures

I took the photo of these two little girls last week in Loveland, I just love little girls in pink. I'm enjoying painting all different subjects, I just want to try everything. We have around 30 people coming tomorrow for a picnic. We back up to a park and they shoot fireworks off right over our heads. If the wind is blowing our way they fall all over us, it's fantastic and terrifying all at the same time. I tell everyone to bring hats so we don't have any hair fires, lol. Happy 4th of July to all of you, I hope you get to spend it with family.