Day 9

There is always some procrastinating in getting started with a new painting. First the brushes and paints need to be organized, even if they are doing perfectly well where they are. Email needs to be checked, the dog walked, the email checked again, and another cup of coffee made. In the mean time the mind is working out ideas and plans about the painting at hand. 

I finally got some some pencil sketches down to help in planning today's painting. When setting things up in my studio downstairs, I realized I  really did not want to spent the beautiful sunny day inside. So I dragged everything up to the deck. Much better!

I ended up doing not 1, not 2, but 3 paintings today! This is what they look like individually:

And this is what they look like next to each other:

Then there was this one from yesterday (8x10):

 

 I love peonies, and they were just begging to be painted. Even with this painting challenge going on, I could not leave them unpainted. It will be a whole year till they bloom again!  So after work yesterday I picked some and started painting. Apparently it is much cooler in my studio than outside, and that made them beginning to close almost immediately. I interrupted painting to cook dinner and by the time the dishes were done the peonie petals were completely closed. Ahhr! Thankfully I had already put enough paint down to finish. So this turned out to be much more sketchy and looser than I usually do.