daily janes

2.5×3.5″ acrylic

A quick little Artist-Trading-Card size acrylic painting, although it never goes quite as quickly as I hope!

9.5×7.5″ acrylic, silk on matboard

Layers of scraped acrylic, brushed acrylic, and collaged silk make up this April Fool.

8×6″ acrylic on canvas board

This little canvas board came from the Mystery Build Kit I received last year and that I didn’t use in my project. It’s the perfect size for daily art!

I was going to collage some silk thread onto the painting to make the pink/magenta horizontal lines coming out, but I remembered how the thread (and fabric) tends to darken a lot when I collage with them. So, I just used paint to mimic the shape of what I hoped the thread would do.

7×9″ acrylic on matboard

New life for an old scraped painting.

digital photo, manipulated

I took some photos of some lovely soap bubbles in a pot in the kitchen sink. I figured I would zoom in and crop one of the photos on the computer and post the raw image. But…once I selected the photo I liked, I decided to try a few software filters to see if one enhanced it or ruined it. The glowing edges filter was the winner. And here is the result.

8×5″ acrylic on matboard

I had been looking at an earlier version of this on my art table for some time. Finally decided I would add something new and see what happened. This happened.

Random quote of the day (from Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way):
“Art? You just do it.” —Martin Ritt

9×6″ acrylic on matboard

I bought some new paint at my local art store today, so I had to try them out (including brilliant yellow green, turner’s yellow, transparent raw sienna, and two others I didn’t use in this piece). Then I added more that I already had on hand (brilliant blue, brilliant purple, and cadmium red deep, and possibly alizarin crimson).

10×8″, acrylic

I paint so often with the scraping technique that I forget how good it feels to work with a brush—even manic brushwork (maybe especially manic brushwork)! Anyway, this was a nice change of pace.

10×8″ acrylic on matboard

I didn’t have much time to spend on this scraped, pressed, textured renovated painting today. It’s a dreary day for picture-taking, and the textured parts are difficult to see. Hoping for more art time tomorrow!

9×8.5″ acrylic on fabric

No more silk on hand (at least in pre-cut sizes), but I have had so much fun painting on fabric (using acrylic, not fabric paint) that I scraped some acrylic on this piece of nylonish-polyesterish-something-or-otherish purple for today’s daily.