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Painting Progress

Here are more photos of the Baptistry. The first was taken after I completed my early-afternoon work on it. I waited for the paint to dry and an hour later, I came back in and did more work. I don’t expect to be able to do any work on it today. We’re going to a [...]

More to share

Nature Inspired: Mixed-Media Techniques for Gathering, Sketching, Painting, Journaling, and Assemblage arrived in my studio late last night from Tracie Lyn Huskamp of the Red Door Studio. I pre-ordered her book because, knowing Tracie, I knew the book would be fantastic. And, I was right! Tracie’s calming, soothing personality comes through in the book – through [...]

Lantern completed New Paintings Started

A few weeks ago I completed all the detailing on the lantern Ive been painting on the 24 x 36 canvas. And I made some changes to the background to give it a bit more depth. Im happy with it. I added some of the detailing with watercolor crayons and sealed the details and then [...]

Art Unraveled and More

The past few weeks have been filled with art and friends. The annual Art Unraveled mixed-media art retreat was here in Phoenix. Linda Young always does a fabulous retreat here in town. She pays so much attention to detail and I know how happy the instructors are, as well as the students. Each year since [...]

Some painting to share

I’ve been busy with life and painting! And so I want to focus on the painting today because it’s what I enjoy. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’m still going through my Italy sketches and photos for inspiration for my paintings. I’ve been working on this one for a while. It’s based on [...]

Painting, painting and more painting

That’s what has been going on here in the ArtsyFran studio! Lots of painting. I completed two more paintings of Italy for my husband’s office. I plan to start another one today, in-between varnishing the completed ones. To the left there is a painting of a door in Venice. We sat in what would have [...]

Catching up & CreativeTherapy

Goodness, it’s been a while. I’ve been busy with life. I’ve continued to paint daily, but nothing passed what I call the gesso test. It wasn’t going to get any better and so I just laid gesso over the images to start over. I’ve sketched some images on the newly gessoed canvases and I hope [...]

More Italy paintings

I spent the day doing even more painting. I’m really having fun with this. I went to a larger size – 16″ x 20″. I used this photo (left) as the source and did some “artistic editing”. I’ve outlined some of the basic steps I have gone through to create the painting so far. I [...]

Painting Updates

I thought I’d share where I am with my paintings based on photos from our visit to Italy. It’s the first time I’ve done acrylic paintings based upon architectural photos, and I’m still enjoying the process and getting ready to start a new one! The Verrano Station painting is completed. It has been varnished and [...]

Beyond Italy

Now that I’ve caught you up on my Italy trip, it’s time for me to share some of the artwork I’ve been doing since we’ve been home. Before our trip, I would stare at my easel longingly. I was just post-surgery and my goal was to make sure my energy levels were high for Italy. [...]

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