Daily Painting

Daily painting #320, many beginnings.

I post "daily paintings" because it gets me out of the ambiguous soup inside my head. Putting actual pictures with words and numbers on the internet creates an alchemy that makes me feel productive and gives my work meaning than it seems to have for me without an audience.  Accepting this fact allows me to use it as fuel and  paint more.  So heres today's work.

Daily painting #319, what happened to happen today.

charcoal and acrylic paint on canvas, 11"x14".

Daily painting #318, a drawing.

No time to paint today but I have this drawing.  Colored pencils.  (I some difficulty with the levels in photoshop.)

A few little somethings.

Daily paintings #s 315, 316 and 317 are three little somethings made in the past few evenings.  Scattered and foggy feeling but trying to show up and make a little work.

See all those blank canvases in the background?  I replaced the 14 10"x10"s that went to NC with blank 11"x14"s to be finished by mid June.  Wish them luck.

Daily Painting #314.

I feel the burning desire to tackle these orange mother's day ranunculus again asap.  The sing so brightly on my table and I couldn't get that in the painting...

Daily Painting #313, buoys.

 oil on canvas, 11"x14".  This is one of a series of 15 paintings for a project I am doing and can't think of how to describe right now.

Daily Painting #312, Harpie.

Draw Your Inner Demons and Promote World Peace.  Its a workshop I am teaching in my studio May 21 6-8PM.  While I am at it you can click on "art classes" at www.margaretmowen to peruse my various offerings.  Check out Lynda Barry's book 100 Demons. 

And the winner is...

Usually winners are determined in a highly objective, scientific manner but this time its going to the small child signing to the computer from his mothers lap! The winner of the bird painting giveaway is RUAH.  Thank you all so much for participating and providing me with friendly comments with which to paper the wall around my bathroom mirror.  

Daily Painting #311.

 
Captain Spectacular melts my heart at the Norman Bird Sanctuary in Middletown Rhode Island.  Afterwards we stopped by Sweet Berry Farm for delicious soup and ice cream.  A friend suggested I add some blossoms to Daily Painting #199 to bring her into spring.

Drawings.

Captain Spectacular and I spent a glorious day at the Norman Bird Sanctuary in Middletown Rhode island.  

When we got tired we took shady sketch breaks.  He insisted that we decorate our "wildlife journals" with matching mommy and baby armadillos. Thoroughly delightful.
I am stunned with inaction by an abundance of source material and ideas this morning.  I will try to focus now and paint something before noon, wish me luck.