Day 21 - 30 Paintings in 30 Days

Three weeks into the 30 in 30 Challenge now.  Looking back, the time has flown by.  With only 9 days left, I find myself thinking about how I will approach my studio time when this is over.  The challenge of finishing a painting in one day has been a good learning experience.  I miss working on larger pieces, though, so I'm thinking that I would like to find a balance between a daily painting and painting daily.  That might be to do something like commit to two days a week of a daily painting, leaving the rest of the week for larger work.  

After painting fur several days in a row, I was looking for a change today.  These chickens seemed to fit the bill nicely.  I used a 6" x 8" sheet of gessoed watercolor paper for this and since I've been painting so many smaller ones the past few days, that size looked huge when I first started.  Using a bigger brush, it didn't take me any longer than some of the smaller ones.  This one was about 3 1/2 hours of painting - and probably 1 hour sketching before that.  In the beginning of this Challenge, I was determined to paint faster and tried to stay conscious of that while painting.  Well, it just didn't work.  Takes the fun out of it.  So I stopped trying.  And I'm getting faster.  Not fast.  But faster.  And I'm having fun. Life is good.

Thanks for stopping by.  Only 9 more days!  See you tomorrow.

susan
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