Christmas Magic

Christmas Magic/ oil on canvas board/ 6 x 8/ $125

This little painting is a change from Santas but continuing in the season's theme.

Artist Note:  I love painting the bright red color and the orange, yellow and purple to give red its form. Recently, I have switched from cadmium yellows and orange to Holbein permanent yellows and orange. The red remains cad red light and alizarin crimson.

http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/sue-churchgrant/christmas-magic/187845

Child Study #1

Child Study #1/ oil on canvas board/ 6 x 8/ $125

I have two directions in my oil painting presently. The first is still life which prompts me to paint directly, work with color mixing, follow light and learn to paint more "painterly" as Qiang would say.
The second is to learn to see photographs as paintings: to interpret the edges and use brush marks to paint paintings not reproduce the photographic image. Both of these exercises, I hope, will allow me to grow as an artist. Today, I am sharing a painting from a photograph I took.

Artist Note:  I like this painting's looseness. I like the lost edges, especially those produced by different colors side by side that are the same value.

http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/sue-churchgrant/child-study-1/186045