Be Still My Beating Heart (25 of 30) SOLD

 

Be Still My Beating Heart, 11x14, Oil on linen, SOLD

To purchase please email me: patriciadrawing@gmail.com

 

This is painted from life using real outdoor light. 

Scratchy Still ( 15 of 30) SOLD

 

SOLD

Scratchy Still, 9x12, Oil on Linen

 

This was fun and I love the results.  A little brush, a little palette knife, and a little daring.

 

Wildflowers (10 of 30)

 

9x18, Pastel on Wallis Paper, $75

 

This is the first pastel I have included in the 30 in 30 challenge.  I have been working in oils and have enjoyed it immensely but I felt like visiting my pastel box today.  This is 100% pastel.  The underpainting was done using pastel with water and a brush.  After letting that dry I applied more pastels to the top. 

Charli Bear (6 of 30)

 

Charli Bear, 9x12, Oil on Linen, nfs

 

This is my sister Bridgid's dog when she was a puppy. 

This picture was so precious I had to paint it for her.

She sent this to me by cell phone.

She loved it when I showed it to her, and said

that I caught her expression.

I really enjoyed painting this little dog, but I did feel a bit of pressure because my sister really loves this dog. 

 

 

Detail of Charli Bear.

 

First Impression (4 of 30) and some Notes at the end...

9x12, Oil on Linen, $75

 

 

If you know me and my love of art history, you know I am fond of the impressionists.  This painting had an impressionistic feel from the beginning and I love how it turned out.  It seems as though the colors are pure and the most important and the objects are in a somewhat dreamy state.  I hope you like it.

Notes: Things I'm learning in the 30 in 30 challenge.

by Trisha Lyons Ansert  (Updates will be published as I go...)

 

1   To make checklists of things I repeatedly do such as posting art to my blog.

2   To finish all parts of a painting before showing it to the public.

3   Never throw away a perfectly good canvas with a perfectly bad painting on it.
Reuse it and many times the new painting benefits from the old color below.

4   Photograph your painting in good light and save to a card. Then go to the computer
and look at it. There is something about looking at the painting on the computer that
will alert you to things you may not have seen otherwise. Hipefully, it is an easy fix.
Also bring your actual painting in to compare with the image on your computer and adjust
it to look as much like the painting as possible. Sometimes the coloring on the camera
photo is too cool and it does not look like the actual painting, for example.
Never enhance the picture of your painting to look different from the painting, we all
know this can be done with all the picture apps out there today. If you are putting
your painting out there on the web to sell it, it needs to look like what the purchaser
will be getting, get it? Haha... happy painting.

 

Where's the Stack?

Here are three pictures in reverse order from my process of painting
Where's the Stack? 6 x 6 Oil on gessobord. (#8)
1)  Finished Oil painting.

2)  Acrylic underpainting.

3)  Ink sketch.



This was challenging for me because I like to paint curvy things

and there were many straight lines on this little binder clip. 

This is one of my mementos from Carol's workshop.   It helps hold

in the little 6 x 6 canvas panels in place.