Jill Millward Artwork

Girl on the Beach

Next paintings started. This is another painting from my trip to Natural Bridges beach in Santa Cruz. So many wonderful things there to paint.

This one is of people just doing their thing on the beach.

The walking girl is mostly done except for her face and some adjustments here and there. I love the looseness of the strokes and I especially love her lanky pre teen stride across the sand. I hate seeing kids in bikinis but I like the color and shadows on her skin so much that I decided to paint her she was dressed that day. I’d like to thank her for wearing those nice red shorts. I like her size relative to the size of the canvas.

That little girl in front is digging in the sand and eating a sandwich.

Morning Paper-Finished!

I finished and signed morning paper today. I glazed in a little color onto the floor, glazed the shirt which helped integrate the little floral print and brighten parts of the shirt, cleaned up the lines on the bookcase, and added a little color to the bright sunlight on her face. Oh, and I warmed up the light coming through the window that’s shining on her and the newspaper.

I love it and would like to keep it for myself but it’s a commission piece so I will have to let it go.

On to the next thing. I enjoyed doing this figure in an interior space, I have 2 paintings in mind, one outdoor scene and one indoor. I took a pic of my son at his piano lesson and will probably paint it.

Have a great one!!

Thanks for your nice comments, they are much appreciated. I enjoy having an audience, clearly.

jill

Flowery shirt!

I did it!

More progress on Morning Paper

I’ve spent some more time working on parts of Morning Paper. I worked on her hand and outstretched arm. I wanted her hand to look relaxed and feminine and I feel like I got it there. Sometimes I look at paintings of women’s hands and they look masculine, other times too dainty. Hands are a little tricky to paint, same as teeth. Teeth are also tricky and easy to overdo. Lots of little parts.

I also worked on bringing out and pushing back things on the bookcase.

I just spent about an hour or so working on her shirt and made almost zero progress. I’m trying to paint on a flower print and I don’t quite know how to do it without making it look silly. I give it another shot tomorrow.

Morning paper-progress

More progress on the stuff in the living room.

Next I’ll work on her skin/hand/face. I need to let all the white dry so I can bring up the light higher in value. And let the background dry so I can glaze it and push it back and bring in some color.

Morning Paper

Here’s a new and different (for me) figure painting/portrait. I have been working away at getting paint all over it today. There’s quite a bit of work to do pretty much all over it but I’m happy with the start and that I figured out a nice way to frame the image.

Natural Bridges Beach, Santa Cruz

I’m nearly done and feel like sharing. I like the way it’s coming along, the painting was experimental because I’ve never done a painting with so many figures within a landscape. What I learned from this one is that I want to paint a beach scene with about 50 figures. I want all the people packed in there going all directions doing their thing.

Here’s a few pics of the progression.

Santa Cruz

More California Dreaming

Here’s another Santa Cruz beach scene I’m working on. I love the beach so much. I had fun people watching on the beach on this perfect, warm, and sunny Santa Cruz day. I decided to paint the whole scene.

This piece is in color but I converted the photo to black and white because I like the way it looks better. It’s a little more forgiving.

This wave painting came from the same people watching beach day.

Finished! 😀

This one was a pleasure to paint from beginning to end. Originally I drew this scene in pulled way back so you could see 2 surfers as well, and the girls and wave were pretty small. I redrew it way closer up. I felt intimidated by the wave and water at first because I haven’t painted a wave before. I started by blocking in the green part of the wave and then everything fell into place. I love the wave and the gestures of the cute and super innocent looking little girls. I’m sure I’ll be on to another beach scene soon. Have a great day!!