Mockingbird 1, 6×6, oil on gessoboard, $75 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/mockingbird-1/239229″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] SOLD Mockingbird 2, 6×6, oil on gessoboard, [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/mockingbird-2/239231″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] SOLD Hemingway wrote that writing is easy, you just sit at a typewriter and bleed. Painting is easy too. I’ve been away for a while. Not actually away, but away from […]
“Green Feathers” 6×6, oil on gessoboard, $75 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/green-feathers/236091″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] This is a Cuban Tody, a beautiful little bird I discovered a couple days ago as I scoured through images of different bird species online. I’ve said it before, but I’m a bird watcher. I watch them in my backyard, on my drives […]
“Hope is the Thing with Feathers” 6×6, oil on gessoboard, $75 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers/234412″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] SOLD Everything I read about marketing says its a good idea to ask questions on facebook. People respond to questions. I had yet to do it until yesterday because it seemed silly. I’m awkward when it comes to social media. […]
“On the Look Out” 6×6, oil on gessoboard, $75 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/on-the-look-out/234011″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] SOLD It’s been a couple days since my last daily painting and it feels like weeks. The blue heron is slowly becoming my “go-to” bird, and I wonder if the pelicans will get jealous, if they notice me when I pass them […]
“Hmmm” 6×6, oil on gessoboard, $75 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/hmmm/233153″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] I’ve been focusing on commissions and my daily paintings have become fewer and fewer. I still paint them, but now that April is over, I don’t feel the need (compulsion?) to post paintings I’m not satisfied with, and, looking back, there are a few April […]
“Puzzled”, 6×6, oil on gessoboard, $75 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/puzzled/232287″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] Started this one yesterday after trying (unsuccessfully) to finish a commissioned piece. This is my “taking a break” painting, and I gave myself rules for it. This is what my inner voice sounds like: Ok, so, I’ll let you paint ANOTHER kingfisher IF […]
“I’m Watching You” 6×6, oil on gessoboard, $75 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/im-watching-you/231207″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] I started this little guy last night because I was in love with the bright blue feathers running down his back. Still painting birds for so many reasons, but this morning I saw a bluejay atop a fire hydrant; he was still and watching. […]
“Quiet Waiting” 6×6, oil on gessoboard, $75 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/quiet-waiting/230988″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] When I don’t know what to paint, I paint the bird that made me a bird watcher. Usually I like them in flight, on the verge of something, in pursuit or escape. But every once in a while, I like the quiet, still […]
“Looking Up” 6×6, oil on gessoboard, $75 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/looking-up/230840″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] It’s Mothers Day so I thought about painting something “momish”, but I never could quite think of what it should be. I thought a lot about my mom and the time I lost a diamond bracelet when I was in high school. I […]
