Art and more art

So I have some actual paintings and drawings to post. Here we go.

Remember this one?


Well, it turned out like this:


After I did this, my instructor Jody had me do some palette knife paintings. For this of you who don't know, that means I use a tool like this:


To paint the entire picture. No brushes. It was very hard for me at first, but it also seriously loosened me up. The first one I did was a still life of a pitcher, which I don't have a photo of yet, but here's the second one I did today. It was my first time painting in the actual landscape, which was weird but exciting. I went down with the class to a beautiful little park just beneath the town's walls. It's well shaded and filled with old cypress trees as well as some other varieties I can't name. Anyway, here's the drawing I did to lay out the composition before hand:


And here's the palette knife painting:



These photos are a little soft and not as saturated as the real thing, but these should give you an idea of what I'm up to. And, as a final picture to look at, this is a photo from the town square. The last few mornings, I've looked out into a wall of fog. I took this picture a little late, so it had started to burn off, but take a look: