One of these days I will take some pictures of the stuff I made with my daughter in our parent/child ceramics classes we took last winter and spring. Those hands helping my daughter are the instructors. I loved taking the class her, but I did learn that clay is not my medium. I made one thing thatContinue reading “Ceramics”
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And my next painting
It seems to be a 2 post morning for me. Yesterday I went running with my group. The sky was really clear and the hills were green, blue, bumpy, and beautiful. As I was running along I saw this gorgeous landscape ahead of me and jumped off to the side and let everyone pass and took this photo.Continue reading “And my next painting”
Dog Portrait
16×20 oil on canvas This is the rest of the dog portrait that I was talking about yesterday when I only showed the very top of castle rock. I’ve been working away at the doggie and he is getting there. I still need to put a fringe on his tail and work out a few more thingsContinue reading “Dog Portrait”
Limes Away
12X12 oil on canvas First of all, thank you for the really nice response to my sons work yesterday. He was happy to read all the nice comments you guys left. He’s a good kid. Some things come easy to him and some things he struggles with. I want to clarify that he takes aContinue reading “Limes Away”
The Work of Ethan Millward!
On Saturday my son finished his Mammoth painting and asked me if I would feature his work on my blog today. He was pretty proud of it. This first painting of his is of our chicken Penny. I love his chicken paintings, he painted 3 of our 5 backyard chickens. This kid can draw waaaaaaaayContinue reading “The Work of Ethan Millward!”
Draw!
I’ve started carting around a small drawing pad everywhere I go so that I can draw and doodle and plan new paintings during the many waiting times in my life. I wait while my kids are at piano, while they are auditioning for this or that, while I’m picking them up, for the doctor, the dentist,Continue reading “Draw!”
Dress
This one is clearly inspired by Wayne Thibaud’s “Yellow Dress.” I painted this well over a year ago when I was picking up my paintbrush again after a long break from oil painting- while my kids kept me really busy. It’s my daughters little dress. I hung it on the wall and painted it asContinue reading “Dress”
Lots of Stuff Going
I have a bunch of stuff in the works right now but nothing completely finished to show today. So I thought I’d show you all this new painting I started and a little about the process that I’ve started using more and more. Scraping back. The first time I tried scraping paint back IContinue reading “Lots of Stuff Going”
Oregon Coast
18×24 oil on canvas I’m all done with this one and I am so happy with how it turned out, I’m not sure I want to part with it. I’m sorta sad to finish because I was having such a good time watching these kids come to life. And this is the piece that I struggledContinue reading “Oregon Coast”
The Work of Vicki Hutchins
? Just after Christmas, I read a great book by Ian Roberts called Creative Authenticity. I highly recommend it if you’re an arty farty type. Reading it gave me such a sense of affirmation and renewed belief that my approach to creating work and my processes were authentic, to me at least. In fact, I would…
Jill Millward Artwork 