Art Journals & Updates
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- November Art Journal
- October Art Journal
- September Art Journal
- August Art Journal
- July Art Journal
- Art Journal July 5-18
Posting kind of got away from me with all of the Immersive Van Gogh arting! Here’s a brief recap of the last half.
Monday 7/5 – Sunday 7/11
11×14 hollyhocks, asters; island starry nights (Holbox), mini Rainbogh flowers & cats, Bromeliad redo, creek, Rainbogh birds (macaw, cardinal, flamingo, peacock), framed mini beach scenes, rainbow boat, Miraflores, Ollantaytambo started, Van Gogh portrait, Hatteras, Rainbogh #plantpaintchallenge flowers, world, shell, Lena collab, mini bridge underpaintings, Ollantaytambo, Paolo path, city starry nights
Monday 7/12 – Sunday 7/18
Mini bridge scenes, starry night rink, artisan underpainting, Stand Out, Lend a Hand, artisan, Center City, Trekell Rainbogh cat, Aguascalientes, mini beach & lake blocks, giraffe, veg underpainting, portrait commission, Take a Knee redo, pink manatee, Charlotte Rainbogh, Holbox sea
- Art Journal 7/4
Monday 6/28 – scrap flowers, finish downtown, shelf, finalize Acts & famille
Tuesday 6/29 – gouache pot, island starry nights (underpainting x6, 3.5 complete), Miraflores start
Wednesday 6/30 – Sketches: Cook’s Reward, border reunification
Thursday 7/1 – finished island starry nights, Crowder’s Mountain, reunification
Friday 7/2 – started Schiele, bigger Island Starry Nights (sign, street)
Saturday 7/3 – finish: Schiele, collab, Miraflores, Hawaii hotel underpainting, succulent
Sunday 7/4 – 11×14 Van Gogh flowers: irises, daisies, zinnias, cornflowers; Gouache cat & Paolo
- Art Journal 6/27
Monday 6/21 – Freeman’s, Cécile famille
Tuesday 6/22 – Lily’s Lilies, Ollantaytambo Afuera underpainting, big painting adjustments
Wednesday 6/23 – Sketches: Mexico, kitchen hands
Thursday 6/24 – Geranium, Collab underpainting, Ollantaytambo Afuera
Friday 6/25 – Downtown Gastonia, Sleepy Cleo, Collab piece
Saturday 6/26 – Machu Picchu, Downtown Gastonia, Acts, Cécile famille
Sunday 6/27 – Machu Picchu Ruins, Acts, Ziggy 6×6, gouache clematis
- Art Journal 6/20
Monday 6/14 – Oleanders, underpaintings: Peru river, lilacs (deceased), daisies, anemones
Tuesday 6/15 – Daisies, Cécile child, lilac redo underpainting
Wednesday 6/16 – lilacs
Thursday 6/17 – Peru River
Friday 6/18 – Day at the Lake
Saturday 6/19 – Freeman’s, ranunculus
Sunday 6/20 – chrysanthemums, anemones, Grandaddy & Lena
- Art Journal 6/13
Monday 6/7 – classroom box, #plantpaintchallenge
Tuesday 6/8 – classroom shelf underpainting, llama tone exercise, Van Gogh rose
Wednesday 6/9 – Van Gogh poppies, Machu Picchu underpainting
Thursday 6/10 – Van Gogh carnation, finish Machu Picchu, hand sketches, pet sketches
Friday 6/11 – WnD ladies, succulent paint sketch, Van Gogh hollyhocks
Saturday 6/12 – Van Gogh fritillaries, Cécile famille, shelf sombrero, WnD beach, Van Gogh portrait touch-ups
Sunday 6/13 – Van Gogh thistle, portrait touch-ups
- 2021 Goals
- Art Journal 6/6
Monday 5/31 – beverages
Tuesday 6/1 – beverage 2, Vincent redo
Wednesday 6/2 – Vincent redo, restorative plant, kid mask sketches
Thursday 6/3 – kid mask underpainting, WnD turtle, Cécile underpaintings
Friday 6/4 – kid masks finalized, #plantpaintchallenge
Saturday 6/5 – outside llama, beach, #plantpaintchallenge
Sunday 6/6 – Cécile + fille, Van Gogh peony, zinnia leaves
- Art Journal 5/30
Monday 5/24 – Van Gogh flowers (iris, sunflower), Sun touch-up
Tuesday 5/25 – sunflower, Toni, AKA underpainting
Wednesday 5/26 – gladiolus, Sacred Valley, start zinnia
Thursday 5/27 – Haxhi dog, Vincent mask, AKA progress, Toni finalizing
Friday 5/28 – Vincents 2 & 3, AKA
Saturday 5/29 – #PayTheDay minis (2×2 & 3×3 beach, bromeliads, dog)
Sunday 5/30 – Vincent #4
- Art Journal 5/23
Monday 5/17 – Cleo study, Cécile sketch
Tuesday 5/18 – “Please”
Wednesday 5/19 – #PlantPaintChallenge
Thursday 5/20 – classroom sketches
Friday 5/21 – Anniversary
Saturday 5/22 – feet, vet’s office, chicken
Sunday 5/23 – Van Gogh flowers sketch
- Art Journal 5/16
Monday 5/10 – Erika touch-ups, larger Starry Night Lights 20×20, Denita repaint underpainting, WnD
Tuesday 5/11 – Denita, Big Starry Night Lights, Lena touch-up
Wednesday 5/12 – dandelions
Thursday 5/13 – WnD, Elmwood
Friday 5/14 – Maria, Elmwood touch-ups, Shayleigh
Saturday 5/15 – doughnuts, vaccination underpaintings, ArtOMat, Sun
Sunday 5/16 – family world gesso, underpainting
- Art Journal 5/9
Monday 5/3 – Erika & Alice underpainting, Brookins, beach background
Tuesday 5/4 – Erika & Alice, Tiger, SE sketch, Hawaii ArtOMat
Wednesday 5/5 – turkey, sleepy Cleo, beach sand & post, start Linneman, heron underpainting, #plantpaintchallenge, María Cruz sketch
Thursday 5/6 – Linneman, tiny circle beach, Maria underpainting, goose background
Friday 5/7 – Oma underpainting, heron
Saturday 5/8 – Oma, Maria, WnD
Sunday 5/9 – Halftime: South Point Starry Night (Starry Night Lights?), Lena oval
- Art Journal 5/2
Monday 4/26 – Bancroft
Tuesday 4/27 – Bancroft, Lemur underpainting
Wednesday 4/28 – Bancroft eyes, lemur, underpaintings: Sun, Will, Alicia, lily
Thursday 4/29 – Alicia, Machu Picchu steps
Friday 4/30 – stairs touchups, art-o-mat designs
Saturday 5/1 – Will, ArtOMat, Aline
Sunday 5/2 – finish Aline & lemur, underpainting beach & tiger
- Art Journal 4/25
Monday 4/19 – macaw underpaintings, lizard, elephant
Tuesday 4/20 – macaws, lizard touchup
Wednesday 4/21 (now I’m 40) – macaw touch-up, penguin attempt, hippo underpainting, big elephant
Thursday 4/22 – hippo, big peacop
Friday 4/23 – Peacop
Saturday 4/24 – Llama, tiny cat, finish hippo
Sunday 4/25 – WnD Kultgen, Brookins, Linneman underpaintings
- Art Journal 4/18
Monday 4/12 – Self-portait, squirrel
Tuesday 4/13 – chicken background, April sketches–menagerie
Wednesday 4/14 – April sketches (menagerie, Stowe), flamingo, giraffe underpainting
Thursday 4/15 – Jordan, Linda, giraffe, sunglass dog sketch
Friday 4/16 – Sara, April sketches, Giraffe
Saturday 4/17 – giraffe, menagerie underpaintings (lizard, elephant, llama), April sketches, WnD
Sunday 4/18 – April sketches (mossarium–end of red sketchbook; Grandaddy, tiger, macaws in tan), Alicia mask sketch
- Art Journal 4/11
Monday 4/5 – commission underpaintings, Stacey, April sketches from FB
Tuesday 4/6 – April sketches (Lena, squirrel), banana studies
Wednesday 4/7 – Kristine & Dana commissions, Kristy, April sketches (park)
Thursday 4/8 – April Sketches, WnD
Friday 4/9 – April sketches, WnD BLACKLIGHT!!!🟣⚪🟡🟢
Saturday 4/10 – commission touchups, quilt, mini menagerie (goose, peacock, chicken, squirrel underpainting)
Sunday 4/11 – Kristy, Denita, Bonnie, stairs underpainting
- Art Journal 4/4
Monday 3/29 – Hope Is Not a Cushion
Tuesday 3/30 – touch-ups, Heather W, Valle Sagrado
Wednesday 3/31 – Bancroft and Aline sketches, Valle Sagrado
Thursday 4/1 – April sketches (mostly Lena’s)
Friday 4/2 – April sketches, vaccinated mask sketches, Linneman sketch, Bancroft underpainting, Goyo underpainting, Lisa U
Saturday 4/3 – April sketches (mostly w/ Paolo), teacher underpaintings, family underpainting, Luz, Kristine sketch
Sunday 4/4 – yellow underpaintings, Edge of the World, April sketches
- Art Journal 3/28
Monday 3/22 – Teacher mask underpaintings (+ Debbie’s)
Tuesday 3/23 – Debbie’s girl, Dorie’s hand, Sacred Valley underpainting
Wednesday 3/24 – Allison & Luz underpainting, Geoff
Thursday 3/25 – Brookins & Amy sketches, Heather
Friday 3/26 – Erika, WnD
Saturday 3/27 – WnD, Stephanie
Sunday 3/28 – Pawpaw painting, me, Allison
- Art Journal 3/21
Monday 3/15 – Cécile face sketches 🙁, Debbie sketch, Barbara magnet, smiley succulent
Tuesday 3/16 – Debbie smile sketch, triangle bromeliad with stupid ******* leaf that won’t work
Wednesday 3/17 – WnD cow
Thursday 3/18 – (postcard packing) Hope Is Not a Cushion sketch
Friday 3/19 – Sacred Valley sketch, Oma After Vaccine sketch
Saturday 3/20 – cactus underpainting, Allison
Sunday 3/21 – Fadi & Jan
- Art Journal 3/14
Monday 3/8 – Kaitlin, Andrea, finish Viola
Tuesday 3/9 – Alice
Wednesday 3/10 – Horsey
Thursday 3/11 – finish horsey
Friday 3/12 – horsey finalizing (for real this time) & orangey bromeliad
Saturday 3/13 – finish bromeliad, triangle underpainting, mini smile succulent underpainting, Amy, self-portait, Kimberly
Sunday 3/14 – Cécile & Barbara sketches
- Art Journal 3/7
Monday 3/1 – Santiago mask sketch, Skull plant
Tuesday 3/2 – Santiago underpainting, tall green companion, biblical draft
Wednesday 3/3 – Viola Davis sketch, Santiago & Dana touch-ups
Thursday 3/4 – Viola underpainting, little green succulent
Friday 3/5 – more horsey underpainting, tiny cactus
Saturday 3/6 – Viola, mom sketch
Sunday 3/7 – Viola
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