Making a Good Start
My art business has grown substantially in the last year and half. I’ve taken on this whole live painting phenomenon, and I’ve started selling bigger pieces. I’ve done more commissioned work than I’d ever dreamed. It’s good. I’ve got no complaints. What I do have is a little nagging feeling. The kind that tells me its […]
For Love of Red…
“Space for Gratitude” 20x20x1.5, oil on canvas $320.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/space-for-gratitude/426126″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] I’m not talking about cups. I don’t care, and I’ve yet to meet a person online or otherwise who does. Usually controversial topics enter my newsfeed in the form of two very different types of “friends” taking the […]
Things that Make you Go Meh: The Art of Parenting Continues

Compared to parenting, painting has felt like a breeze. Although I’ve struggled in the studio lately– trying to find the rhythm I once took for granted, the real challenge has been forming, shaping, supporting, molding, nurturing the little human being somehow entrusted to my care. This month has brought on a trying series of events […]
Paved with Good Intentions

I started Artists who Art about a month ago mostly because many of my former art students seemed interested in continuing to make art but weren’t quite sure how to start since they are now adults and no longer have to answer to any teachers or professors. Each Monday I give an assignment. One I fully intend […]
Where the Heart is…
“Composed of Nows” 24×30, oil on canvas $430.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/composed-of-nows/416185″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”blue” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] I’m working on a few portraits. And they are going well. But sometimes I need a time out, and when I paint these abstracts I kind of get lost in them. They are where my heart is. And […]
Can’t Get Rid of Me
“Over Every Dark Thing” 22×28, oil on canvas $350.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/over-every-dark-thing/412596″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”blue” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] I’ve been working on this one for days now (an eternity for me who likes to crank em out). It started as an abstract. It very very nearly stayed that way. But there was this desire. This […]
When New Thoughts Come at 1:00 Sharp
“Sore Must Be the Storm” 20×20, oil on canvas [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/sore-must-be-the-storm/411136″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”blue” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] Every day at 1:00. I keep thinking that that’s the title of something I’m going to write in that vast world of possibilities called “someday”. Every day at 1:00 is when I paint. And today I was […]
And Just Like That, It’s a Series
Untitled 2, 16×20, oil on canvas. $250.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/untitled/409632″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”blue” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] SOLD I painted this today because yesterday I painted this: Untitled 1, 20x20x1.5, oil on canvas [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/untitled/409631″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”blue” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] I didn’t begin this week thinking I would start a series of abstracts but, […]
Maybe One Day
“Across Distance” 20x20x1.5, oil on canvas $280.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/across-distance/409066″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”blue” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] I really enjoy abstract paintings. My instagram feed is filled with the abstract paintings of artists I admire (that and bird photographs, of course). I sometimes try abstracts myself and for whatever reason, they just don’t seem to come out the way […]