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.

 

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.
 

 

 

 

 

RedOrange Dream (2 of 30)

5x5, Oil  $30

email: patriciadrawing@gmail.com

 



 

I love this orange against red combination. 

Simplicity for today.

 

I am learning to add the buynow button, email for now.

My first 1 of 30

This is Me…

 

 

Trisha 9 x12 Oil, nfs

 

I did this self portrait while looking in a table mirror with my favorite red hat, natural light.

This was inspired by a trip to the palette and chisel and all of their amazing portraits they

had hanging up.  I loved doing it and it will become my fb profile for the 30 in 30 challenge this month.  I am super pumped about painting more.  Good luck to me and fellow artists participating. 

30 in 30

This stands for 30 paintings in 30 days. 
This involves: 

Choosing (a subject)
Painting
Uploading
Blogging

Everyday for a month....yay! 
Wish me luck!

Follow by inserting your email...I will also be posting to facebook.
I am in the process of creating a page just for art.  Stay tuned!

Fell in Love with Roses Again

I am enjoying working with oil paints again.  I like to keep it simple, not too many colors.  I seem to have better results with that approach.  I love all the shades of red in this one.  This is a detail of the original.

A drawing, a pastel, an oil painting...oh my

I have to share this painting because it actually belongs to you.
I had this bouquet of orange lilies and have been painting them for over a week!
This oil painting is big, for me.  It's 24 by 36.   On facebook I had a call
for comments and they really helped me along.  It is so true that multiple sets
of eyes are better than one.  Making it better with the help of my fb friends
was enlightening and quite frankly fun.   I hope you enjoy it!  Trish Lyons Ansert

Daisy Chorus

Daisy Chorus, 18 x 24, 100% Pastel

nfs

You can probably tell, this is where my weblog banner came from.  I love this painting because it is beautiful!

I did a pastel underpainting and added water, let it dry, and added more dry soft and hard pastels on top.

I posted this to my facebook page a while back and am just getting around to blogging about it because it is being entered into the Kentucky State Fair which starts today.  Wish my pastel luck!  Trish