Painting A Day, Crabby
“Crabby” 6×6, oil on gessoboard, $75 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/crabby/230580″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] My 24×36 commissioned crab painting is almost finished. It has been quite some time since I’ve painted that large. It felt both free and frustrating. Trying to find the rhythm in my brush strokes. On the small 6×6 panel, each stroke shows, matters. On the […]
Painting A Day, A Closer Look
“Ready for My Close Up” 10×10 oil on gessoboard, $125 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/ready-for-my-close-up/230446″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] Revisited the blue heron today. Close up. Wondering what it would be like to have this kind of calmness in the chaos that surrounds me. Daily painting has given me something to prioritize when countless demands are being made on […]
Daily Painting, On Making/Cleaning Messes
“Pondering” 6×6, oil on gessoboard, $75 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/pondering/230225″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] I didn’t get to paint yesterday, and it made me sad. Well, I did get to paint. At my job– the kind where you teach women how to paint sunsets or wine bottles while they empty their own. One of the customers asked me what […]
Daily Painting, To Reap and to Sow
“Reap Nor Sow”, 8×8, oil on gessoboard $100 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/neither-reap-nor-sow/229750″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] Thinking about this robin again. Revisited it. More texture, text. Still a little surprised that I’ve turned into a bird watcher. My great grandmother had a clock with a different bird on each of the hours. The clock would make that bird’s call […]
Painting a Day, Long Breaks, and Rockin’ Robins
Rockin Robin, 6×6, oil on gessoboard, $75 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/rockin-robin/229539″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] I broke my streak. Saturday was full to the brim. I didn’t even pick up a brush. Sunday was less busy, and I did paint but couldn’t quite get it where I wanted it to be. On Monday mornings the gym is more crowded […]
Still A Painting A Day. Do You See What I See?
“Do You See What I See?” 8×8, oil on gessoboard, $100 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/do-you-see-what-i-see/228959″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] SOLD I work a lot at night at my other job. But work’s been slow the last few days, and, once Ezra was in bed, I had the night to myself. After some wine and dark chocolate, I started three […]
Daily Painting, Looking Back
“Looking Back” 16×20, oil on canvas, $225 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/looking-back/228810″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] I added a counter to my website. The thirty in thirty challenge has officially ended, but a new adventure has unofficially begun. Day 31. The counter counts up, counts the consecutive days of daily painting. My thirty in thirty was all about tiny, manageable […]
Painting a Day, Day 30. Now What?
“Now What?” 6×6, oil on gessoboard, $75 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/now-what/228519″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] SOLD Thirty paintings in thirty days. A painting a day. Done. Haven’t been checking off many things on my ever-growing to-do list, but I can check that off. I’m not sure I feel as accomplished as I’d imagined. This feels more like a beginning […]
Daily Painting, “Well Hello There”, Day 29
“Well, Hello There” 6×6, oil on gessoboard, $75.00 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/well-hello-there/228332″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] SOLD Today was an interesting day in the studio. Worked on a painting I’d started a week ago, abandoned it. Started a new painting. Smeared it away twice. Then I remembered the trip we took last month to the Tampa area and all […]