Art – Page 19 – Jill Millward Artwork

Oct 28th Trees

Today’s trees. And a bird. My friend asked me to paint a birdhouse to be auctioned off at a charity event in December. So today I practiced painting a little bird. It turned out very plump. The trees are in Camelsback park in Boise Idaho.

Oct 27 trees

Oct 26 Tree

Trees by the river

Here’s today’s trees. This morning I went running along the Boise River greenbelt with some friends and the reflections of the trees in the river caught my attention. This is a first hit, I’ll put some more time into it to see where it goes. I’m way out in new territory with these trees andContinue reading “Trees by the river”

Today’s Tree

This morning I was at the dog park and noticed how beautiful the trees were with the sun shining through from behind. I painted it this evening. I’ll go back when it’s dry and work out the light coming through a little more. See the garbage can? Very important for a dog park. I’m goingContinue reading “Today’s Tree”

Collecting Shells

My painting of my daughter collecting shells is nearly done. I’m still working out a few things. As I was painting her shirt yellow (at her request) I realized that the shirt was one of the first things I’ve painted yellow. I felt like I was really branching out.😉 I looked through my paintings toContinue reading “Collecting Shells”

Magic

When a figure starts to emerge it’s magic for me, every time. It goes from a ghost to a person.

Collecting shells-progress

Next painting- Winnie

I’m not done with most of the paintings I’ve been doing recently but I’ve had fun getting them all to 80% and moving on. This painting is of my daughter collecting shells on the beach in Mendocino. She took a look at this the other day and asked why she looked so terrible. On theContinue reading “Next painting- Winnie”

Tough guy WIP

Here’s my painting so far. Looks like he was tougher looking in my drawing. It’s still a work in progress. I’m wondering if I should add more people back there on the beach doing things. And I’m on the fence about the arm tattoos.