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 […]
Painting a Day, Day 28
Half Shell, 6×6, oil on gessoboard, $75 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/half-shell/218059″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] I started this painting weeks ago. It has stared at me daily as I painted my birds. I didn’t think I’d revisit it because, well, I’m just not that into oysters anymore. But then I painted a couple of dabs here and there as […]
Heron painting, Day 27
Heron 3, 6×6, oil on gessoboard, $75, [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/heron-3/217783″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] Three days left of my 30 in 30 painting challenge, and I’m wondering what’s going to happen May 1. I can’t imagine breaking the streak, but I also have six commissions to work on. Hmmmmm. I’m working on a blog post about what I’ve […]
Morning Walk, Painting a Day, Day 26
Morning Walk, 6×6, oil on gessoboard, $75 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/morning-walk/217605″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] I used to take walks every morning, but in the past few months I’ve gotten away from it. It used to be a moment of calm in the breakfast/clothes/shoes/mickey mouse clubhouse chaos of the morning. A respite. We took a walk today. I used […]
Peacock Painting Continues- Day 25
Peacock 2, 6×6, oil on gessoboard, $75 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/peacock-2/217457″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] SOLD I got such a great response to my first peacock post that I decided to do another one. I attempted one yesterday, a peacock with its tail fanned, but I just wasn’t into the feathers. I started over today and this is the […]
Mother Child Art- How to Save a Painting– Day 24
Mother Child 4, 6×6, oil on gessoboard, $75 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/mother-and-child-4/217219″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] This is a painting I started a couple days ago, but it got off to such a rough start that I abandoned it right away.