Hello creative friends! This summer finds me busier than ever. How ‘bout you?
Our string band played the county fair providing ambiance for the fair-goers. That was a lot of fun. 🙂
Here at home our little garden is cranking out beans, tomatoes, berries, and zucchini—which means harvest and preservation are in full swing. Time to dust off the canning jars…
Yesterday was a chicken processing day—thank goodness for our chicken plucker!
Homeschool is just around the corner. I mean, it literally starts next week—yikes!!!
And throughout our busy schedule I am somehow managing to find time to spend at the easel.
Lately I have been working on monochromatic as well as limited palette studies in oil. I have also done some experimenting with new colors, but would like to spend more time really going deep into the possibilities via some color charts.
Here are a few of the studies…lots of fun to do and all from imagination.
These studies are done on canvas paper and take as little as 20-30 minutes, though some took longer depending on how much fun I was having! 😉
I could see these studies serving as inspiration for future larger oil paintings. Producing them was a fun way to test out ideas and materials, and engage in some imaginative playtime without feeling like I had to produce something frame-worthy.
So I highly recommend this kind of work for those times when you are in between projects, or for when you just don’t know what to work on next.
I think it is also something incorporated into a daily practice if you desire. Like daily sketching, but for oil painters!
Hope you are taking time to restore your creative juices as summer continues. Before you know it, autumn will be upon us and we’ll be longing for these long, lazy days, so don’t let them go to waste!
Till next time, stay creative.
~R
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