First Week of Summer!

The summer is off to a great start! I have begun working on several paintings, finished one, and have many more in the sewing phase. Today was spent buying wood to make stretcher frames and then nailing the quarter rounds into the 1x2's, I still have sixteen more to go! Here are some of the in progress paintings I have been working on:

This is a commissioned work that is going to have strong
saturated colors, but I really like how this first layer turned out
and I am thinking of doing a series of pastel washed
out colors on this style of canvas.

This is my third painting made by twisting the canvas.
It is the first diptych I have done since
being assigned to do one in college.

I think that if you are going to do a diptych you must have
a reason (my original reason of just happening to have
two stretcher frames of the same size does not cut it) so I
am going to explore making an opposite painting and will
be using the same color pallet for each, just in reverse.

This is my second twisted canvas painting and it
was originally going to be shades of pink with
black in the folds of the canvas. I am glad that I
decided against my original color plan, these colors remind
me of a ripe nectarine and are much more vibrant.