Bend Don’t Break. Focus, Direction, Vision
“Focus” 24×12, oil on canvas, $225 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/focus/330235″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] I’ve worked on this one on and off for weeks now, sometimes for as little as ten minutes. It’s darker than most of my paintings. More monochromatic. I used the palette knife again, enjoyed piling on the paint in thick layers, amused at the […]
Visions and Revisions
“Love Song” 24×36, oil on canvas SOLD There’s this story about Picasso. I’m not sure if it’s true or not, and I have mixed feelings about it. A woman spots Picasso at a French cafe. She excitedly recognizes him and asks if he will do a small drawing for her. He quickly sketches a […]
Art and Warring
“Waiting for the Muses”, 22×28, oil on canvas, $312 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/waiting-for-the-muses/243429″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] This one has been a long time coming. In the mess of my separation and still eventual divorce, I have things, objects, that don’t quite have a home in this temporary space I’ve found myself– someone else’s home. Old paintings. Paintings whose […]
Palette Knife through the Heart
“Diving In” 18×24, oil on canvas, $260.00 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/diving-in/240781″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] I love painting small and often. In fact, not producing a painting a day for the last month and half has left me feeling unproductive even though I’ve put in at least close to the same miles on the canvas. Is […]
Always Sketch First and Never Say Always
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 […]
Out of the Mouths of Babes
“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, My Friend
“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. […]
Another Day, Another Bird Painting
“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 […]
Daily Painting and Failure, er, Set Back
“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 […]