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 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, 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 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 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.
Proud, 10×8, oil on gessoboard, $112 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/peacock/217057″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] SOLD I feel frustrated. Like art is for the artists. Like art isn’t something people just do, just happen to do for an actual living. Like others are more suited to it, for it. So for today’s painting I had to dig deep and […]
Blue Pelican, 8×8, oil on gessoboard Today I set out to paint something completely different– a mother/child image that thirty minutes in was a complete failure. I stayed with it for longer than I should have and finally abandoned the panel all together in favor of this one. When all else fails, paint a pelican. […]
Sparrow, 6×6, oil on gessoboard, $75 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/sparrow/216534″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] Today is the first day I thought my thirty in thirty challenge would become a twenty-nine in thirty. Day 21, and I just couldn’t seem to get it done. Ezra, who naps for at least two hours every day, decided he did not want to […]
Ezra, 6×6, oil on gessoboard Two thirds of the way through my thirty paintings in thirty days, and it’s Easter Sunday. I can’t help but think back to last Easter. I had finally realized that my husband was not just going through a “phase”, that he was completely and irrevocably gone. I don’t remember much […]
