Changeout at Organic Natural Cafe

Changed the art work at Organic Natural Cafe to tree and leaf themed paintings.  I want to hang all of my paintings on brick! 

Texture as Focus

I think it's finished.  I'm doing paintings right now where I'm focusing more on the texture and simplifying the painting.  I'm interested to see if people respond well or prefer more painted surface.  This is similar to a painting I did recently called Black Dandelion, where it was all about the grid of pattern in the background with a simple dandelion on top.  I got really good reactions to it at last weekends show.

Painting in black and white.  Totally different for me, but intriguing, I think.  I may do more like this.  I have an idea in my mind that I'm excited to start.

Tree Collection

LilyandLemon at etsy included one of my wall clocks in their Tree Collection. Pretty cool, check it out: http://tinyurl.com/26ankg9

New Logo Idea

I've had a few comments on the tree that I use as my logo. That it's "not your best work". I like it because of the strong colors. But, I like the idea of changing it as well. I get bored easily. I enjoy how Google creates new graphics each day for their "Google" logo. Of course I can't do it every day, but I like the idea of painting a new sunshine and tree logo every so often. I'm going to give it a try and see what happens. The problem is, it might confuse people with brand identity. For instance, the photo posted today of the purple tree, is so very different than my original logo. Will people get the correlation?

Note Cards

I have been working on making the note cards myself. Having them printed was turning out to be too expensive and I was not happy with the quality. I really like them with actual photographs. I have decided to mount the photos onto card stock so there is a mat around the image and then mount them on the actual card. I think I have about 6 or 7 styles posted to my etsy site. I've also been working on the quality of my photographs. Much improved.

DIMINUTION

Today I reposted Diminution, which is a painting a finished about a year ago to my etsy site. I also attempted to print note cards on my printer at home. Hmm....not looking great yet.

Tree Painting is Finished

I did not finish the goals I set for myself today, so I am planning to work on them again tomorrow. However, I did finish the yellow ochre and dark umber tree painting I have been working on. I took my first photos with the new tripod. It's definitely improved the quality, but I think it will help photograph even better during daylight hours, so am going to also work on photographing the texture series tomorrow.

Rendering Style

Today I worked on a painting of a tree. I want the painting to have a morose, lonely feel. I have many branches to go. I think the looser I get with paint strokes, such as the background, the more I like it.

I took a color rendering class last quarter. I played around with one of my one-point perspectives. The first image is done with photographs of my paintings. It's not hard-lined, but I took more time making the lines straight, etc. The last two, I drafted and rendered in about 5 mins. I realized that I liked the looser ones much better than the more precise-time consuming rendering. I think I've found my style.

#5 is Alive

I finished Texture Painting #5!! Picture to follow tomorrow. Now I'm working on a brown and yellow ochre painting of a tree. I've had the background finished for a while, but just started the tree. I want it to have kind of a bleak feeling.