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.

 

Gothic Venus (11 of 30)

 

Gothic Venus, 12x12 , Oil/ Charcoal, $100

 

An ode to Botticelli's Birth of Venus.  

This came out more like 'Goth' Venus.

She sort of reminds me of Juliet of the Shakespearean variety. 

Classic, youthful beauty with unforgettable hair. 

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. 

Catchin Some Rays (9 of 30)

 

Catchin Some Rays, 8x10, Oil on linen board, $40

 

I love this one.  The contrast between the values, and that vase make me very happy.  This photo for the most part is correct but there is a bit of blue outside the window pane, and on the tips of a few petals that are not showing up here for some reason.

I hope you like it.

Concrete Dreamin (8 of 30)

 

Concrete Dreamin, 14x11, pastel and acrylic glazing, $50

 

I love his shape and the negative space of the sidewalk on this one.

I also experimented a bit from a sketch I did with pastel under an

clear acrylic glaze.  I gives it a luminosity. 

 

Copper Sleeping (7 of 30)

 

Copper Sleeping, 8x10, Oil on linen board, $40

 

This is my baby.  

One of my greatest joys in life.

I really like the abstact quality of the stroke in this painting.

(If you think there is a tail missing, you are right,

he doesn't have one.)

Lilly Reading (5 of 30)

 

 

9x12, Oil on Linen, nfs

 

 

This is a portrait from life of my friend Karen's oldest girl Lilly.

She was reading Richard Schmid's Alla Prima while I was painting her.  She loves art, and painted this pear once the portrait was complete.  She was a delight.

 

 

 

Lilly's Pear with Sky Background



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.

 

Three For You

 

5x5, Oil on Gessobord, $40

 

email: patriciadrawing@gmail.com

 

Elegant white flowers to brighten your day.
I loved painting these flowers. 
The light, subtle tones, the magical shapes.
They reminded me of a wedding.