daily janes

7×5.5″ acrylic, ink on matboard

The scraped transparent green gold acrylic transformed the color in this painting. There is one noticeable spot where the original colors (ultramarine blue & magenta) pop out. I added some parallel lines at the bottom, just because.

6.5×10.5″ acrylic on matboard

This began as a clean scrape, but a little too dull. I scraped another layer of transparent paint over it, but it was still too plain. I made some straight marks with the scraping tool in some areas, then did some similar work with the side of a palette knife at the top and throughout the piece. And here it is.

7×10″ acrylic on matboard

This is a scraped acrylic painting in layers and with some dabs of zinc white along the bottom, obscuring some of the color.

7.5×9.5″ acrylic on matboard

This combines scraped acrylic, with some palette knife and brush work. It began as a vertical painting, but I saw a human figure on the leading edge of the horizontal image, so I went with that and added more to it.

9.5×7″ acrylic on matboard

A day early this week! This is a scraped acrylic painting. In lots of layers. That’s all.

6×6″ acrylic on paper

I scraped and dabbed most of this piece much earlier this week (when I was still feeling ill). I’m still feeling the ill effects, and it’s been a busy week getting ready for the MLK Day of Service on January 18. But just now I finally did some last-minute dabbing, took a photo, and am posting this just in time for this week’s newsletter. Whew!

8×6″ acrylic on paper

Despite being busy and then getting sick, I didn’t want to let a whole week go by without a daily jane (although I’m not promising that in the future!)! This was mostly done last year, but I thought I would scrape a transparent magenta over it today to see if that would make me like it any better. In my headcold haze I picked out Alizarin Crimson instead. Luckily, still transparent, but a different color than I intended. I wiped some of it off allowing the underlying colors to show a bit more, but it’s still alizarin crimson, not magenta! So, this is an “oops,” but at least it’s something!

6×6″ acrylic on paper

I scraped and brushed this acrylic painting in a circular pattern. The result wasn’t what I had in my mind’s eye, but in the end it turned out okay.

And so, this is the 365th daily jane, the last of the daily janes for 2015, fulfilling my commitment to a year of daily artwork. In 2016, I hope to post new work (“dailies” and others) here on a regular basis, but I’m letting go of what I’ve called the tyranny of the daily janes (for now)! 😉

Thank you all for coming along for the ride, especially my devoted subscribers who often sent me comments in response to the weekly emails. I appreciate the feedback! And, sometime in 2016, I plan to have an exhibit and sale of these daily janes. I don’t know where and I don’t know when. It may just be a pop-up sale at my house in the spring. So, stay tuned. And if you’re interested in the sale when it happens, let me know (or subscribe to this blog and you can find out that way).

And finally…happy new year!!! I hope 2016 is a good year for all!

9.5×7″ acrylic on silk

The last of the silkies this year. I really enjoyed these scrapes on pieces of silk. I only discarded one of them (it just got too overworked and overwrought, trying to force it to be something else). But I like this one’s clean simplicity and colors, and the way the colors surprised me in their mixing and non-mixing.