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.
Peacock Painting. What!? Day 23 of 30
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 […]