Margie Sez
Thirty paintings thirty days:
California Impressions Day # 5.
Sister Marjorie Ellen sez BRIGHT YELLOW. So okay.
California Impressions # 5
Acrylic on canvas 12 x 12″
2014 Susan Lobb Porter
What d’ya think?
Thirty Thirty # 4
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–
Thirty and Thirty, Day 3
Thirty paintings, thirty days. California Impressions # 3
California Impressions # 3
Acrylic on canvas 10×10″
2014 Susan Lobb Porter
Just for fun (and to see the evolution of this image) here are the first two versions.
30/30 California Impressions # 1
Acrylic on Canvas 8×8 inches
2014 Susan Lobb Porter
California Impressions # 2
Acrylic on Canvas 8×8″
2014 Susan Lobb Porter
Whoa--what a difference a day (or two) makes, eh?
Simplify Simplify
Thirty paintings thirty days, day 2.
I’ve decided I’m going to play the game let’s keep pushing this image. So this is today’s version of yesterday’s painting, paring down the details, switching up some color. You can see the original here.
Number 2 is a bit cleaner–not nearly as fussy.
California Impressions # 2
Acrylic on Canvas 8×8″
2014 Susan Lobb Porter
Where will I go with # 3? Come back tomorrow and see.
Thirty Paintings Thirty Days, Round Two
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.