Inspiration – Jill Millward Artwork

MacKerricher State Park

A fun and beautiful change of scenery! MacKerricher State park is just north of Fort Bragg, California. About 100 north of San Francisco.

This year I joined the BOSCO Boise Artist Collective and will take part in their open studio event. They asked for a number of things for their website and marketing materials including an artist portrait and a studio shot. And some images of my work. I have a brilliant photographer neighbor who came over andContinue reading “Bosco Images”

It’s coming along!

More Progress!

24X48 oil on canvas This morning I went out and painted on location for about 3 hours with a friend. It was fun to have someone with me. I still have a ways to go. I like this point in the progress of a painting. When I have all the element in and I startContinue reading “More Progress!”

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”