Waiting to dance 11"x14" oil

This red dress is always fun to paint with its yards of netting, tons of sequins and ruffles.  It was fun to be loose on this painting.   I decided to put her off center to make the composition more interesting.

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White hydrangeas 8"x8" oil

Thought I should paint these before they started to wilt.   I painted the whole thing while squinting (which helps me keep my youthful wrinkled look) because it helps to view the subject without all the details and prevents getting too nitpicky.  

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Maker's close up 6"x6" oil

Someone emailed this bit of information to me, that there are more barrels of bourbon in storage in Kentucky right now, 4.7 million to be exact and that surpasses the population in Kentucky which is 4.3 million.   We could each have our own barrel but then ya'll wouldn't get yours and I guess that just wouldn't be rite... or right, as you would say it.

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A little bit of Maker's 6"x6" oil

This is a staple in most liquor cabinets including mine.   I live in Kentucky within 60 miles of the largest  bourbon distillers in the world so it is understandable that we take our bourbon seriously or at least with a cube of ice.

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Waiting 11"x14" oil

We pretended that she was waiting at a cafe for someone to show up.   

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Pappy Van Winkle 20 year 6"x6" oil

Thought I would do a few bourbon paintings so I would have them on hand at the Cherokee Art Fair this year.   I have started with one that I have on my shelf, Pappy Van Winkle 20 year.   

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Side by side 8"x8" oil

I just could not resist painting another one that had lots of ribbon action!   

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One on pointe 8"x8" oil

There are several things I love about this one: the large shadow in the background, the contrast of the cool shadow and warm shoe color, and the way the ribbon disappears in the shadow.  Those three things excited me and was the driving force behind it all.

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On Point 8"x8" oil

My favorite part is the ballet shoe in the back on point.  

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Daydreaming 16"x20" oil

I worked the color around the canvas by using colors in the background that I had used in the subject.   It unifies the painting.

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One on top 8"x8" oil

What can I say... more ballet slippers.    I did light it so that the shadows in the background and off the ledge were cool in color.

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Napping on the sofa 11"x14" oil

I painted this a few weeks ago and was not happy with the color combinations surrounding the figure.   The composition was pleasing to me and I wanted to keep it so I unified the colors by first putting on a glaze using Winsor Newton burnt sienna and ultramarine blue making a dark brown.  Then I made the sofa and pillow the same color.    Now I think it works and saved a painting that I might have wiped off or discarded.

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Two steppin ballet 8"x8" oil

The background color today is so close to the ribbon color that the ribbon disappears in spots.   I could have used a darker color but I liked the subtle shift in color and it was a challenge to capture.  

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Twin ballet soles 8"x8" oil

For some reason these shoes decided to face the wall and bare their soles.   I think they are telling secrets.

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Ballet couple 8"x8" oil

Looking through my view finder for a long time I decided that cropping the left shoe was more exciting than showing the whole shoe, which made it look more conventional and also the ribbons became more important.

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Ballet ribbons 8"x8" oil

The ribbons steal the show in this painting.  I was happily painting along and all of a sudden I realized that I should stop... it was done!

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Ballet shoes cropped 6"x6" oil

I like cropping close.    It felt like I was painting an abstract.   Painting the ribbons is my favorite part.

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Ballet shoe sole 8"x8" oil

It is amazing to me that they don't wear these shoes very many times and they have to put so much work into them before they wear them like roughing up the leather sole and sewing on all the ribbons and elastic.    I cannot imagine wearing them.   You can give someone a concussion with the toe of the shoe.

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One Hung Shoe 8"x8" oil

After saying it out loud the title sounds like a dish from chinese takeout or maybe I just sneezed.   Anyway...  every time I start one of these ballet shoe paintings I feel uncomfortable and think that this time I have really more than I can handle.   But before you know it two hours have passed and it is done.   Sometimes getting into that uncomfortable zone is a good thing!

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Two ballet shoes 8"x8" oil

I love all these paintings of ballet shoes... my favorite part on this one is the shoe in the back, the glow on the inside and the shadow it makes on the wall.    The shadows are an important part of my 

compositions... on all my paintings.   

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One and a half ballet shoes 8" x 8" oil

When I decided to paint more than one shoe the 8" square seemed to work best.   Painting looser is something I have been trying to do.   Losing edges is a goal also.   After taking this long break from painting my perspective seems different also.   

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Ballet shoe ll 6"x6" oil

I cannot imagine wearing these shoes, not even for a minute.  A couple of ballerinas in Louisville donated these shoes to me a number of years ago for some paintings I was working on.   I love the image of the shoes not the pain of wearing them... not that I wore them.   I did take tap lessons... actually roller skating was more my thing.   Flying down the asphalt street with the clip on skates making sparks as I flew.  But I digress.   For these shoe paintings I have added a few other tube colors. John Howard Sanden's Pro Mix color system for portrait and figure painting.   I do not use them in my portraits, they don't really work for me, but they are the perfect colors for these ballet shoes.   

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Ballet shoe, 6 in x 6 in oil

I discovered my pile of ballet toe shoes and thought they might make good paintings.   I am working on keeping the painting loose.   The shoes are pink but they have a lot of grey in the color.   The ribbons may have been pink at one time but are faded a bit so they are more yellowish.  It is cosy to be painting inside while it is snowy, icy and freezing outside!   Today there is a covering if ice on everything!

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Study in Blue 6"x6" oil

Again following Liz Wiltzen's ideas on color/value studies here is my study in Blue.   It was a little tricky.   I used blues in a range from turquoise to bordering on violet.  My palette was titanium white, cadmium yellow medium, cadmium red light, alizarin crimson, ultramarine blue, thalo blue, thalo turquoise and burnt sienna.  After it dries I will try to photograph it again because the dark areas when wet catch so much glare.

The one on the left is a b&w photo of the set-up and on the right is a b&w photo of the painting.

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Study in Yellow 6"x6" oil

This one was hard!   I started on it yesterday and worked on and off all day and by 4:00 the light was gone, time to quit.   Worked on it this morning and finished it finally!!   This took way too long but I think in the end it worked out right.   The photo here did not capture the right shades of yellow but I am so over it!!   I really should do a painting in blue so I at least have one of every primary color.   These would look so cool all together in a grouping!   Thank you Liz Wiltzen for coming up with this exercise!  The large pepper was the hardest for me because of all the fussy shapes around the stem.   My palette was: Titanium white, Cad. lemon yellow, Cad. yellow med, Cad. red light, Ultramarine blue, Thalo blue, Winsor Newton Bt. sienna

Here is the b&w photo of the painting and a b&w photo of the set-up for comparison.  

Glad this one is done!

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Study in Green 6"x6" oil

Here is the second one in my Study of Color series.   Inspired by Liz Wiltzen's blog post about using vivid color to flex your value muscle, I painted a second one using all green.    The palette I used was Titanium white, lemon yellow, Cad yellow medium,  Cad red light, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine blue, Thalo blue and Burnt Sienna (Winsor Newton).   I believe you can achieve great greens by mixing from yellows and blues and in fact get a better variety.   However looking at this now it looks like I used sap green... go figure.

On the left is a b&w photo of the painting and on the right is the b&w photo of the setup.   So you can see the comparison.

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Study in Red 6"x6" oil

Through out the holidays I have been thinking about an exercise that Liz Wiltzen wrote about in her blog about "Using vivid color to flex your value muscle".   It is a very helpful exercise to work on getting your values correct.    Check out her exercise here.   In order to get the red dark enough in the shadow sides you need to mix your red with a blue or green.   Just using a darker red will not work.  Here is the photo of it in black and white to make sure the values are where they need to be.

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Le Chat, Francesca 8"x8" oil

This is my sister's cat and she has the most amazing eyes!

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Jim Beam white label 6"x6" oil

Back to painting some bourbon.  It seems to be a popular subject.   There is so much warmth in the color of the liquor that I thought putting some blue in the background would balance it out.

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Red Bandana 12"x16" oil on canvas

I love the way the cool light from the north windows collided with the warm light from a lamp.   The play of warm and cool were really fun to play with.

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