by Susan Lobb Porter | Art, Daily Painting
California Impressions # 4
Sister Marjorie Ellen, an artist herself, had only one thing to say about yesterday’s painting: MORE YELLOW!
Since I always listen to my big sister (snark) but mostly because today’s painting was created after a full day of teaching and throwing something together with more yellow sounded heckuva lot better than anything my tired brain could conjure up, I decided to heed her advice.
And I’m glad I did.
California Impressions # 4
Acrylic on canvas 12×12″
2014 Susan Lobb Porter
For those of you who’ve just stumbled upon this series of posts, I’m taking part in Leslie Saeta’s Thirty/Thirty Challenge. Every day for thirty days I’ll be painting something and sharing it here. I decided I want to use this exercise as a way to find my voice with abstract landscapes. This week–maybe this month, I dunno–I’m painting variations of the same image, the one I created for day 1.
You can check it out here, along with the two paintings that followed before this one. Holy crappolony, what a difference a day (or three) makes!!!
As you can see, each day’s painting is looser than the day before. Intentionally so. My goal is to push this particular image until I can’t abstract it any more, until it tells me I’m done. Then I’ll move on to something else.
Would love to hear your thoughts on this. Let me know what you think in the comments below. And if you have any suggestions, throw ’em in. Who knows—I may say that’s just what I need.
Until tomorrow–
by Susan Lobb Porter | Art, Daily Painting |
It’s 30/30 time again, sweetums. A painting a day for the month of September. Some of you may remember when I did this back in January. Instead of painting tho, I taught myself digital art and created the Women in Red series.
You can check those out under Archives in the sidebar to the right. Scroll down to January 2014 and have at it.
This time it’s paint and canvas, albeit small canvases. I’m starting with 8 x 8 inches because I happen to have a box of ’em in the studio. Size will change as I deplete my inventory but my theme–California Impressions, will remain.
Here’s Day # 1.
30/30 California Impressions # 1
Acrylic on Canvas 8×8 inches
2014 Susan Lobb Porter
With any painting, coming up with the idea is the hardest part. In the interest of growing and stretching creatively, I think I’ll do another variation of this image tomorrow. Abstract it some more. Play with the color and see what happens.
Come back tomorrow and check it out.
As always, love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.
by Susan Lobb Porter | Art, Work in Progress |
Oh my sweetums…last week I showed off some landscapes I created on the iPad. I said I might use them as studies for, ahem, real paintings.
Mwa-ha-ha! Squealing like a guinea pig as the tears run down my cheeks.
What I neglected to tell you is I have, ummm…difficulty doing the same thing over and over. I get bored.
Let me explain with pictures. Okay, I decided to start with this one.
Garden: View from the Patio
Susan Lobb Porter 2014
The original studies were fun, I could do them all day. But doing them again in a different medium? Meh–I couldn’t get past the ugly teenage phase. The part every painting has to go through before it turns out okay. Kids too.
The ugly teenage phase
Well if this painting has been a kid, he’d be in jail. That’s all I can say. Or I’d be in jail for killing him. Because that’s kinda sorta what I did. My heart said screw this acrylic shit…BRING ON THE OILS AND COLD WAX!!!
Ta-da! Not done but so much better in my head for this. Except why the hell am I HOLDING it for the camera?
Note to self: Don’t do that again. And clean up your language. Quit saying shit and hell and screw. Or don’t. Damned if I care.
Back to the technical stuff. I mixed up way too much color–I always do that, so I decided to slap the leftovers on another painting I didn’t like. I don’t like wasting paint and it was a sucky piece anyway. I didn’t take a ‘before’ picture. Didn’t want to embarrass myself. Let’s just say they were Aspens in Autumn. And if I was eight years old and they’d been on paper my mother would’ve hung ’em on the fridge. Maybe. If she really loved me.
Here’s the ‘after’, still a work-in-progress. I rather like where it’s going, even if I don’t know where that is yet. The painting underneath adds so much depth and texture. Makes it much richer than if I started with a clean board. These are all cradled boards by the way.
I had another board to recycle and more paint. Turquoise. All that turquoise.
Another work in progress
Another landscape. Imagine that!
So that’s all I’ve got to show you for this week. Any thoughts? Leave ’em in the comments below. I’ll give you a puppy if you do. Or a pony.
As always–
by Susan Lobb Porter | Art, Digital Art |
30 Paintings 30 Days, day 28.
TWENTY-EIGHT!!! IT’S DAY TWENTY–DIGITAL-PAINTINGS-LATER–EIGHHHHHHHHHHHHT!!!
I would do the happy dance except right now there’s a cat perched on my shoulder. She’s old but her teeth are still sharp and those claws are totally capable of drawing blood. So no happy dance, just a quiet celebration that HOLY CRAP I’m almost there. ‘There‘ being finished with this particular daily painting challenge.
I’m sure there will be more, I’m growing rather fond of regularly working out my creative muscle. We’ll see. I really need to get back to rebuilding my official art website. And work on that novel.
And figure out how to clone myself so I can keep making art every day. Like this:
Women in Red # 28 © 2014 Susan Lobb Porter
Women in Red # 28.
So what’s their story? Because every painting has a story. I’d love to hear what this image brings to mind for you. You can share your thoughts in the comments below. I promise I will eat chocolate as I read and respond to each and EVERY one. You wouldn’t want to deprive me of my chocolate, would you?
Gallery quality giclee prints of this image and others from the Women in Red series can be purchased here.
Technical details: Created entirely on an ipad 2 using procreate and my imagination. Ummm…my imagination is not yet available as an app.
