Showing posts with label Suzanne Berry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Suzanne Berry. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Morning Watch & Moses Botkin Challenge


The Moses Botkin Challenge caught each of the 6 members wishing for more time to complete our paintings.  We all seem to be busy!  There are a lot of shows going and work being painted and shipped.  I too have my share of busy work that goes along with painting.  Have I said enough to give me a good excuse for not finishing my Challenge painting?  The image above is the beginning of my painting.  The rest is still to come so this is indeed a Work-In-Progress painting.  The Challenged title is "Wisdom" and I chose the hawk to symbolize the Innate Wisdom of Animals.  I do look forward to finishing this piece and once it is completed I will post another photo.  Thinking about wisdom has made for, "A Painting Day".  The Challenge group paintings are shown below.

"Morning Watch"  Work in Progress, 6x6 inches soon to be 6x12 inches





"Helping Hands"
10x8 inches, oil on panel ©2011


"Seek and You Will Find"
Original oil on hardboard 8x6 inches ©2011


"Wisdom"
 pastel on paper 3x4 inches ©2011


"Wisdom"
16x20-inches, oil on canvas ©2011

Sunday, October 16, 2011

It's A Wash & October Moses Botkin Challenge


The Moses Botkin Challenges are always a challenge and usually a delight once you jump in and start painting.  The Challenge for October was chosen by Robin Cheers.  Each artist was given the same gray scale photo and we were to paint it in color.  The challenge was to get the correct values.  If you have a good composition and your values are correct you can paint in any color scheme you want and the painting will work.  So we all went to work for, "A Painting Day". Scroll down to see the other challenge paintings.

"It's A Wash" - Sold
8x6 inches, oil on canvas


Our reference photo taken by Robin Cheers.


"Summer Chores"
11x14 inches, oil on panel ©2011


"Untitled"
8x10 inches, oil on canvas ©2011


"Thursday"
16x20 oil on canvas ©2011


"Fetching"
10x8 inches - oil on hard board ©2011



"Fresh Sheets"
14x11 inches, watercolor on aqua board ©2011

Friday, January 14, 2011

Pink Piglet & Diana Moses Botkin Challenge


Today is special due to the fact it is my first post for the Moses Botkin Challenge.  There are 6 artists that participate in the challenge.  The January Challenge was chosen by Sharman Owings to paint something that starts with the letters "p i".  I gave that a bit of thought and came up with Pink Piglet.  I hope you like this little piglet portrait.  She was a lot of fun to paint.  You will find paintings from the other Challenge members below.  Taking on the Challenge made for, "A Painting Day".

"Pink Piglet"-6x6-inches oil/canvas by Ruth Andre Sold
www.ruthandre.com
andre@ruthandre.com

Diana Moses Botkin
"Pineapple on the Snow" ©
http://dianamosesbotkin.blogspot.com


Robin Cheers
"Old Pickup" © -6x8-inches
http://robincheers.blogspot.com


Vicki Ross
"Apples for Pie" ©  11x14 inches Pastel on Pasteboard
http://www.vickiandrandyrossart.blogspot.com/

Suzanne Berry
"Piggy" © -10x10-inches oil/linen


Sharman Owings
"Pilsner" © 6x6-inches oil/panel