Jill Millward Artwork

Morning Run

22X22″ oil on canvas I finished Morning Run today. All’s right in my world. I was lucky to get this shot last month while I was running with my group. The hills were green, the air was clear, the light was beautiful, the runners and dogs were all in frame. All the dogs but one,Continue reading “Morning Run”

Another Work in Progress

Here’s another piece I’m working on. This is a portrait of my friends parents. She asked me to paint it for them for their anniversary. My daughter painted the underpainting in oil of yellow ochre/burnt sienna (I think). She is always dying to help me, she also wrote “Hi Mom” on there. You can justContinue reading “Another Work in Progress”

Some Monday randomness

This is what I do while my kids are at piano lessons, knit. Our teacher requires that a parent is there through the whole lesson, and the lessons are an hour long each. So that’s three hours of sitting on her couch listening to their lessons each week. I have learned a lot and loveContinue reading “Some Monday randomness”

Runners WIP

I painted in the rest of the figures, the dogs, and plugged in the landscape. The dogs are 2 beautiful golden retrievers that are brother and sister, and can you see the little vizsla zipping ahead off trail? That’s Penny, she stayed with us last weekend so we could “try out” a dog and weContinue reading “Runners WIP”

Katie Peak

8X10 oil on canvas I was too busy to paint yesterday, there are days like that. The end of the school year keeps us all hopping. I finished this little foothills painting last month but never posted the finished piece. This one is very similar to my other foothill painting that I donated to the school artContinue reading “Katie Peak”

Boise Foothills and Runners

I started on my Foothills and Runners painting today. This one is already a fun one to paint and I am looking forward to working on it more. The composition is such that I can feel myself in their space, but then again, I was in their space right behind them taking the picture. When IContinue reading “Boise Foothills and Runners”

The work of Dinosaur-a-day!

Originally posted on Dinosaur-a-Day (or whenever I remember…):
Check out Dinosaur-a-day. I am so in love with this little site. I get a kick out of each dinosaur post. They are all so different and fun, I didn’t know which image to share on my repost. The site is a little enigmatic to me, there’s nothing about the artist and I have noContinue reading “The work of Dinosaur-a-day!”

New Painting

Hi friends! I am so happy to say that I completely finished the Maine beach scene and my client (I don’t like that word, but what else works?) came by my studio and loved it and said that each kid looks like themselves. She is picking it up on Tuesday to take it to theContinue reading “New Painting”

Figure 8!

There she is, the last kid to get a face. She was the first to get a suit. You may have noticed that in the original drawing she was wearing a string bikini, but since this is a painting for her grandparents, we decided to put a one piece on her. This girl is tall,Continue reading “Figure 8!”

Figure 1 has a face now

Hooray! This buff little guy has a face now! He was the first figure I painted in, you might remember, and I got to his face and made a few attempts at it but didn’t know what direction to take with all their faces. So I moved on from him. Now I’ve come back andContinue reading “Figure 1 has a face now”