Yesterday was beautiful here in Boise so I went out and painted in the foothills. But right when I got set up and started I realized that I had forgotten my white paint. So I decided to see how far I could get without it. I had Naples yellow, so that helped some. SoContinue reading “Plein air Sage and Foothills”
Category Archives: Inspiration
Boise Foothills WIP
24X30″ oil on canvas Here’s a work in progress. It started out as a surreal thing with an elk head with antlers floating in the sky above the foothills. I lived with it like that for a few weeks and decided the elk was just too cute with its big eyes and ears. So IContinue reading “Boise Foothills WIP”
Still Life Workshop
Today I attended a still life workshop. There were 3 different still life’s set up around the room. I did something with each still life. With the lemon still life I first did an abstract, which is really my first abstract painting and I loved doing it. And I love it’s simplicity. It justContinue reading “Still Life Workshop”
Bouquet
9X12″ oil on canvas
Progress
I made some progress on these 2 paintings today. Progress. But I was practically lying on the floor moaning about the double portrait during class today. Everyone just ignores my drama. The portrait is starting to come together, but it has been a big fight. I calmed down the red at the bottom of the bigContinue reading “Progress”
Big Landscape
I have been toying around with my big Boise Foothills landscape. I’ve decided to work on it a little bit each day over a month or so and just see where it goes. There is a red section at the bottom that I’m not in love with so in this photo I cropped it outContinue reading “Big Landscape”
Double Portrait
I have been chasing this kids face all over the place. Today I just focused on his eyes to try to get them in the right place and to have the right shape. Not sure why this one has been so tricky, but it has been. Gratefully he no longer looks like Michael Jackson,Continue reading “Double Portrait”
Boise Foothills
Today I went out into the foothills and painted these 4 little 4×4″ plein air paintings. It’s starting to warm up a little and the grass is starting to turn green. I pretended that it’s already really green in the hills and painted the grass green.
Sketching
I’m sketching while listening to my kids piano lessons.
Still here
I didn’t post anything yesterday because I had just started this portrait and it took a while for it to look even a little bit ok. This is a cropped in version, and I kinda like it this way. But the real thing has both boys faces. This is a portrait of 2 brothers. TheContinue reading “Still here”
Jill Millward Artwork 