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. 12×12″
Every week we sit behind the same family at church and this little doll peeks over the pew and gives us her shy smile. Today I sketched her doing it. She is seriously cute. The sketch isn’t perfect because I didn’t measure anything, but for the most part it looks like her.
Tough guy on the beach. Probably watching his 3 year old.
Painting soon to come.
My Madonna and Child painting has been on a ride all over the place. I don’t know what in the world I’m doing so who knows what the end result will be. Here’s where she’s at now:
I just scraped it all back and painted back in some.
My sister.
Anyone who knows me knows who this is.
work in progress 14X18
Mendocino California
I’ve decided to do a drawing a day for my personal artistic growth. I’ll post my drawings on Instagram so come over and follow me there if you’d like. I’ll occasionally post them here too I’m sure. I love to draw going back to when I was little.
This couple will go in the painting with Atti. I plan to move away from relying on photos towards using my drawings and studies. I think this will create a freer painting that is filtered more through my eyes and world view and experiences. I have no interest in reproducing a perfect photo. I’m trying not to measure so much and worry so much about perfect likenesses. It’s a challenge for me to do that because I always feel like I need to show that I can get everything right on. But I can tell you that the guy is 5 heads tall and the woman is 4.5 ish heads tall. And Atti is 5 heads tall and one head wide.
Boy, ocean, wave, rock arch, mountains way back there.
I want to paint the rock arcing at Natural Bridges State Park in Santa Cruz.
I did this sketch today and will work off of it to do a painting of the scene. It was fun to do this sketch and take the boy from looking like a rectangle with a box on top into a boy running in the water. It’s all about pushing through when it looks bad.
I like it.
Jill Millward Artwork 