Final Day for 30 in 30

So Saturday was day number 30 in Leslie Saeta's challenge of 30 Paintings in 30 Days of which I am showing 28 in my collage above. 

My husband and I took a trip to Yosemite and that threw me behind in the challenge for several days but I intend to catch up this week and finish my final two!

It has been a great challenge and I loved getting up each morning with an idea already planned to paint.  But in a few days it will be good to get back to my own paintings and commissions!

Thanks to all for viewing and your support through this challenge!

Love that Man......et!

Day 27

30 Paintings in 30 Days

After Edouard Manet

Love Manet's paintings! The more I study them, the more I appreciate his work! Unfortunately I had a full day today and by the time I finished this there was only my easel light to photograph from so some of the colors are a little washed out.  

I will try to get a new shot of it tomorrow!

3 days left in the challenge!

After Thiebaud

Day 26 

30 Paintings in 30 Days

Wayne Thiebaud is an American painter best known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects—pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries, and hot dogs—as well as for his landscapes and figures. Wikipedia

Great line work (on the original).  I couldn't quite get his thin vibrant lines on such a small painting 6 x 6".  Was fun to paint anyway!

I put in some line work before I began began painting and that is probably what I should of stuck with so my line work doesn't get muddy.

I found my line work was too thick so I had to cut back into it.

Just need to finish up her hand, ice cream cone and background.

FUN!

One More Sorolla and a Hinkle

Day 25

30 Paintings in 30 Days

After Sorolla (again!)

His nose really isn't this lavender, nor is his ear so red!  Something is happening with my camera settings!!



And I needed to make up Day #2 as I was babysitting my niece's children that day and I just could not paint!


Day 2 

After Clarence Hinkle (1880-1960)

Loved the dappled sunlight!

After Vuillard

Day 24

30 Paintings in 30 Days

OK.  I have to tell you.  I picked this one because of the hat!

Now for the original artist.....I think it is Edouard Vuillard.  At least that is who it was attributed to on Pinterest but when I went to find it today on the internet, it had disappeared. Oh, it was still on Pinterest but when I Googled Vuillard, she didn't show up.  When I went to the match program on Art.com, she didn't show up.  So there you are.  A great hat and an unknown artist.

Only 6 more days!

After Rockwell

30 Paintings in 30 Days

Day 23

After Norman Rockwell's "First Trip to the Beauty Shop"

For my 50th birthday (several years ago - HA), my mom and I spent a week or so on the East Coast and one of our stops was a the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.  He was a prolific artist who told a story with each of his paintings.  I loved that about his artwork.

A little girl looks at her reflection in the beauty shop mirror as her hair is swept on top of her head. I get the feeling that she envisions herself as a young woman.

Here are some of Rockwell's posed characters alongside his paintings.

Only 7 more days to go in this challenge!

The Countdown is On

30 Paintings in 30 Days 



This is Day 22

After Edward Hopper.....


One of his most iconic paintings is "Night Hawks" painted in 1942.

It is an amazing process of limiting your time on a painting.  I see so much that can/should be changed but by limiting myself, it's done and it's time to move on.  There is something so freeing in that!  Thank you for viewing my art.