Each month the Moses Botkin Challenge group picks a subject or a technique for the group to paint. This month
Robin Cheers chose the Challenge. She asked each artist to make a painting using only 15 brushstrokes. I have to say I dragged my feet on this challenge but once I got started, what fun I had. The little landscape above is very close to 15 strokes and I learned it is hard to count and paint at the same time. I used a palette knife since it seemed to be what was needed to get the paint to go where I wanted it to go. The paint was moving fast and made for, "A Painting Day". The other paintings for the Moses Botkin Challenge are shown below. Enjoy!
"Spring" © $70.00
6x4-inches
oil on board
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Sale Day Paintings
"7 Stroke Apple"
4"x 4.5" Oil on canvas
©2011 Diana Moses Botkin
Robin Cheers
"Gardening" © 12X6 inches
Contemporary Life Painter
"7-stroke to Place"
13x9" oil on canvas
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8 comments:
Counting and painting would be hard! You achieved beautiful results!
Your animals portraits are fabolous, Ruth... but also this 15 strokes landscape painting is wonderful! I love the way you use the palette knife!
I love the way the colors blended and made other colors, especially the yellow and orange at the bottom. Is that a black horse running down a hill, stirring up dust behind him, or am I just reading that into it? Either way, I really like this fun painting!
WOW! This is different! Very fun and colorful. I like it!
I'm glad you had fun with this Ruth! Love your results too. - Robin
I can't tell you how much I love this piece - I saw it on Diana's blog and had to come right over!
I've been doing a lot of palette knife pieces recently too - it's so much fun! This is an inspiring piece though - deceptively simple!
I'm so glad we didn't all paint the same subject because this way we get to see more variety in what can be painted in only a few strokes.
I'm in awe of your landscape you painted in so few strokes!
What a fun and interesting challenge!! Very nice
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