Beach – Page 3 – Jill Millward Artwork

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.

Tough guy

I started this guy yesterday and today I gave him a face.

Josie

Here’s Josie again. Again like for the 4th time. I’ve used her as a subject so many times because she is just so natural and easy going. On this one I tried to keep the background simple but just right because there is so little to this composition. It’s a beautiful, simple, clean little painting.Continue reading “Josie”