In The Paint

I’ve been painting a lot of small canvases lately: as small as 2.5 inches squared. A few days ago I did two quick underpaintings on larger canvases and yesterday I completed one of them. As I was painting yesterday I hit a point where I really felt that I was in a groove or in the zone. It felt great! I haven’t felt that groove in a while.

The canvas size is about 24″x30″.

Hiking in northern Israel

Here are some new paintings, 4″x4″, that I’ve just added to my Etsy shop. The first two were painted from photos I took in Israel and the last one is from a photo I took in Nova Scotia.

Enjoy!

Lately I’ve been doing a lot of teaching, volunteering, and taking courses and haven’t been painting too much.  Here is one piece that I just started last week in acrylic and then moved to oil. I started this one pretty loose and hope to keep it that way by the end. I still needs some adjustments of the hair and clothes and colour in general. I started off dark and will go lighter in the face as I continue. This is a portrait of a friend of mine.  I would like to do a larger painting of her at some point.  I can’t wait to post the final painting.