Carol Marine's Painting a Day

CAROL MARINE'S PAINTING A DAY   10/30/16     I'm leaving tomorrow for Germany with my family. We'll be gone the entire month of November, so I won't be able to ship any paintings from now until December. My stepdaughter, Maddie, will remain here, and ship books for me. Click Here to Buy - 10x10in. - $600 - "Rocks in the River" While I was in Colorado, my friend and I did a lot of driving around looking for the perfect spot. After about three days we realized - there wasn't one! So we just started painting, not wherever, but in what I would consider semi-perfect spots. What I got out of it, mostly, were notes. Notes on color and value. I also took a lot of photos. And between my notes and the photos, I will be able to do some finished pieces. Like this one (above), which I am quite proud of. Click Here to Bid - "Labarynth" - 8x10in. This (above) is a scene from California, up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. I've had lots of practice up there painting from life, but this one is from a photo I took a couple of years ago. You can see how I approached it from my process shots below. I ended up having to repaint the foreground a couple of times. Little tufts of grass are hard to paint! Click Here to Bid - "Colorado Color" - 6x12in. This is another one from Colorado. It was right at the beginning of fall, when tree colors were just starting to change, but the grass was already golden. -Carol Quick Links my blog my website my ArtBytes my books my Facebook page panel holders my New Beginnings blog my Cafe Press store my Pinterest page email me My Workshops October 17-21, '16: San Antonio, TX - register  - FULL w/ wait list May 11-20, '17: Provence, France! register here  - FULL w/ wait list   Also check out my ArtBytes (online tutorials), and instructional book, Daily Painting, available on Amazon:

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Carol Marine's Painting a Day

CAROL MARINE'S PAINTING A DAY   10/27/16     Click Here to Bid - "Across the Pond" - 6x12in.  I painted this on a recent trip to Colorado.  My friend Penny and I had driven out to her friend's farm, and found this lovely pond at the back of the property. I had just learned about galkyd, and so experimented with this painting. I love galkyd! I actually painted the house and yellow bushes first, just to make sure I got those in before the light changed, but then I painted in the trees. And then all the pond stuff. So by the time I put in the distant mountains and sky, the paint on the trees was tacky enough not to make mud where they touched. This is a solution to a problem I've had forever with landscape painting!! Click Here to Bid - "At Attention" - 6x6in. In other news, am home from my San Antonio workshop and slowly catching up with things here. It took me a couple of days to recover emotionally. These kiddos (below) may not look rowdy, but they definitely kept me on my toes. The great food and wine helped keep my strength up, but by the end I was a puddle on the floor. I'm hoping they didn't notice. Oh shoot, did I just admit that?! Here are a couple of my demos from the class, and a couple of partial demos too. I was especially happy with the bacon, and plan to paint it again. Not the actual bacon - I ate that. Here are all my kids (and me, and 2 of our illustrious hosts) from the workshop. You guys were awesome!! -Carol Quick Links my blog my website my ArtBytes my books my Facebook page panel holders my New Beginnings blog my Cafe Press store my Pinterest page email me My Workshops October 17-21, '16: San Antonio, TX - register  - FULL w/ wait list May 11-20, '17: Provence, France! register here  - FULL w/ wait list   Also check out my ArtBytes (online tutorials), and instructional book, Daily Painting, available on Amazon:

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Carol Marine's Painting a Day

CAROL MARINE'S PAINTING A DAY   10/12/16     Tomorrow morning (far too early) I'm flying to Texas! I'll spend a few days visiting family, and then teach my last workshop of the year, in San Antonio. I'll be back late Sunday the 23rd, and will ship any paintings that have sold, then (I apologize in advance for the delay). "Take Your Pick" - 6x6in. - Click Here to Bid I can't believe I forgot this, but a major milestone has passed. Ten years and eight days ago is when I started this blog! Wow. What a journey this has been, and continues to be. Here is the first painting I posted here, on October 6th, 2006. "Standing Room Only" - 6x6in. - Click Here to Bid -Carol Quick Links my blog my website my ArtBytes my books my Facebook page panel holders my New Beginnings blog my Cafe Press store my Pinterest page email me My Workshops October 17-21, '16: San Antonio, TX - register  - FULL w/ wait list May 11-20, '17: Provence, France! register here  - FULL w/ wait list   Also check out my ArtBytes (online tutorials), and instructional book, Daily Painting, available on Amazon:

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CAROL MARINE'S PAINTING A DAY   10/8/16 I'm doing an experiment, and only sending out an email every few paintings ... or days, whichever comes first. You guys can tell me how you like it. "No Personal Space" - 6x6in. - Click Here to Bid Recently I experimented for the first time with Galkyd. It makes paint dry a little faster, which I found is especially useful for landscape block-ins. Specifically I have used it to block in the dark masses of trees, so that when it comes time to put in the light sky the colors don't mush together at the margins and make so much mud! This has been quite enlightening! So I've been experimenting with Galkyd in still lifes too, and blocking-in there as well. I don't have answers yet, still just lots of questions. But I'm having fun.  "Overprotective" - 6x6in. - Click Here to Bid Here's another one from eye-level. Someone told me once, long ago, never to paint a still life looking down because it looks like it's going to slide right off the table. Obviously I ignored them! But what do you guys think? Just curious...     "Little Red" - 6x6in. - Click Here to Bid -Carol Quick Links my blog my website my ArtBytes my books my Facebook page panel holders my New Beginnings blog my Cafe Press store my Pinterest page email me My Workshops October 17-21, '16: San Antonio, TX - register  - FULL w/ wait list May 11-20, '17: Provence, France! register here  - FULL w/ wait list   Also check out my ArtBytes (online tutorials), and instructional book, Daily Painting, available on Amazon:

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