Jill Millward Artwork

Progress 24X48″

New Biggish Piece

This new painting is 24X48″. I bought the canvas the other day and then used a white modeling paste to both smooth out the canvas bumps, which I don’t care for, and give the painting texture in some places. Then I used red, pink, and orange acrylic paint for the underpainting. You will see inContinue reading “New Biggish Piece”

A Good Start

I’ve decided that I need to slow down a little with my plein air paintings. I feel so rushed to produce a whole painting start to finish in one session, it’s a little overwhelming and I think my paintings look rushed. So I’m going to try to go back to the same location several timesContinue reading “A Good Start”

Hulen Meadow

I put a tiny little bit more time into this plein air painting that I did while in Ketchum, Idaho. I had a great weekend of painting, the mountains are unusual and amazing pretty much everywhere you turn. I put together this slideshow to show the progression of the piece. I put it in thisContinue reading “Hulen Meadow”

Ketchum

11X14 oil on deep edge canvas I Spent the morning painting in this meadow in Ketchum. It was beautiful and cold. This meadow is right next to the Wood River and a small outlet runs through it. While I was painting a biker and 2 dogs visited me and then went right down this trailContinue reading “Ketchum”

Sun Valley

What a place! Sun Valley is big and majestic and hard to know what to paint and where to start. The third painting is still a work in progress but I like how the little round bushes look, so I included it. I’ve been messing around with colors on it. There are parts of theContinue reading “Sun Valley”

Rimrock

11X14 oil on panel I went out last Thursday morning to Rimrock Reserve, a small bit of preserved natural open space near my house, and painted this plein air. I have done 2 small 5X7 paintings of this area and wanted to see how it would be to paint the scene a little bigger. IContinue reading “Rimrock”

Cottonwood, Sage, and Tablerock

5X7″ oil on canvas panel This morning I went out and spent a couple of hours sitting in the foothills, painting, and just enjoying being outside on a quiet Saturday morning. I am enjoying the peace of plein air painting more and more. I’ve made a pact with myself to be at peace with theContinue reading “Cottonwood, Sage, and Tablerock”

Tablerock

6X8″ oil on canvas Today I went and sat in the back of my car as it rained and painted this little scene of rural but right in town Boise. There are little dirt roads here and there that make you feel like you are in the country. With downtown just a mile away. JustContinue reading “Tablerock”