Yellow Bird

Here is my next attempt with this color scheme. I added a little splash of color with the yellow bird and I already have plans for my next painting. I can't wait to get started!

Another Bird Painting

I just love turquoise, brown and white together. I don't know why it took me so long to use it as my main color scheme for a painting. I'm hoping to do some more like this only play around with the birds.

Parakeet

I painted this little guy for my mom on a square canvas I've been saving. We used to have a parakeet that looked just like him growing up. Unfortunately this is it for my Christmas paintings this year. My attempts were pretty lame since I haven't been feeling well.

Rhino

Take a look at my newest painting!

I recently bought a ceramic rhino while I was in Washington, and since then I've been obsessed. I had so much fun painting it. I used crackle to get the weathered skin on the rhino. I want to try a few more of these with maybe elephants or hippos. With crackle the possibilities are endless. :)

Cleveland

As you can tell I haven't done a lot of serious painting in the last few months and I am definitely feeling something missing in my life. In an effort to fix that I came up with an idea for a series of paintings all centered around Cleveland. I've lived here for a year now, while my husband is attending medical school, and I just love it! Since our time here is limited, I want to take advantage of all the unique experiences and culture Cleveland has to offer. The goal is to create at least ten works (give or take a few) in the next year and then have some sort of an exhibition. I figure if I blog about my progress I will have to commit to the challenge and actually get some work done.

Here is my first piece. I used a map of downtown Cleveland and abstracted it. I wanted to capture the dirty gray feelings a city has, along with all the exciting pops of color and life. I'm not completely satisfied so I may change it up a bit. Or just leave it and make another with the same concept.

Birthday Flower

Here is one of my most recent paintings I did for a birthday present. I combined a few aspects from my other paintings to make this flower. The color choice was inspired by the receiver and I just love how it turned out.

Inspiration

Last time Jeff and I went to the Cleveland Museum of Art I was inspired by some of Van Gogh's tree paintings. His work has so much expression that I want to capture in my own art. I especially loved this painting I found online.


I decided to make my own version of it and this is how it came out. I loved creating it and I think the free brush stokes give it a lot of movement and character.


I'm excited to use this style of painting in my work to come!