Day 29. Do Over
“Where Ya Headed?” 22×30, oil on canvas, $325 Click to Purchase SOLD My art supply order finally arrived today! But it wasn’t until after I’d been painting for a while. Given the low supplies, I dug through a stack in the corner and pulled out this old painting from about four years ago. Four years […]
Day 28. Keep it Simple, Small.
“City Park Egret 3″ 6×6 oil on gessoboard [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/city-park-egret-3/371422″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”#2e7bd3″ size=”medium” edge=”rounded” target=”_self”] This is my third go at a series of photos I took of a particular egret at city park. 100 days has started to feel bigger than it did on week 1, so I thought it best to […]
Day 27. Cruising
“A Girl’s Best Friend” 6×6, oil on gessoboard $75. [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/a-girls-best-friend/371120″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”#2e7bd3″ size=”medium” edge=”rounded” target=”_self”] Yesterday we went to Mandeville lakefront to enjoy the weather. I took a ton of pictures of Ezra throwing rocks into the lake with some of his newfound friends. I even found an egret to stalk, […]
Day 26. A Painting A Day. The Revisitation
“Chicken Scratch” 8×8, oil on canvas, $100.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/chicken-scratch/370877″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”#2e7bd3″ size=”medium” edge=”rounded” target=”_self”] A painting a day? Want to know what I did today? I painted five paintings. On the same canvas. Nothing was working. And the more it didn’t work, the more anxious I got. Finally, I grabbed a rooster off […]
Day 25/100. Still Blooming
“Bloom” 20×20, oil on canvas, $250.00 Click to purchase. SOLD This is my second go at Mr. John’s roses on another relatively large canvas. I used the palette knife instead of the brush and abstracted them just a bit more than I did in round one. After the first rose painting and then yesterday’s portrait […]
Day 24. Humans of Louisiana
“Snark” 10×10, oil on canvas. [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/snark/370393″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”#2e7bd3″ size=”medium” edge=”rounded” target=”_self”] Have you heard of humans of New York? Every Friday, I’d like to offer you humans of Louisiana in paintings rather than photographs. Today, meet Jen, a wonderfully colorful college student. The conversation I’ve had with almost every person in my […]
Day 23. Thinking BIG, Dismissing Logic, Everything’s Coming up Roses
“John’s Roses” 24×24, oil on canvas $300.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/johns-roses/370135″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”#2e7bd3″ size=”medium” edge=”rounded” target=”_self”] Reasons why you should paint small: It’s a much smaller investment. If it doesn’t work out, you’ve lost about one to four dollars and about an hour’s worth of time. Storage. You can store 100 small paintings until they […]
Day 22/100. Enjoying my Comfort Zone
“Sitting Pretty” 16×20, oil on canvas, $225.00 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/sitting-pretty/369890″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] This is the painting I’d started a couple days ago but didn’t finish yesterday because it was Tuesday which meant I needed to get outside. Challenging myself is easier when I know there is a nice little studio painting of a bird waiting for […]
Day 21. Challenge Yourself, Plein Air Take 2
“Breezy” 12×12, oil on canvas, $150 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/breezy/369704″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] Yesterday, I said I was going to try to get outside on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This morning, I thought of a million reasons why I would skip today and shoot for Thursday: I don’t want to be a landscape painter. I got to a late […]