Finished!

Good Friday to you! As promised, I have a picture of wet rose with it's final stokes of paint! How exciting. Remember, this piece is 36"x36" painted with oil on canvas. It is always exciting to finish a bigger piece because you can really see and enjoy the time and energy invested in it. Now I'm on to a tulip party with white tulips. It is about to be tulip season and I can't wait. I love painting tulips. They have so much personality! I'll try to take some pictures of that one as I go along too. Until next time...

Happy Thursday!

Good Evening! Today, I made some more progress on wet rose. The goal is to have a final picture for you tomorrow. I finished painting about half of my leaves today. I look forward to finishing it and move on to one of the cloud paintings I started last week. We are also about to embark on a move. This will not effect my conversations here (I don't think) but it will be another thing on my agenda. It's going to be a busy April! A photo tomorrow. Can't wait!

Until next time...

hello

Hi. I realized at about 1 am this morning that I did not blog and thought, well you should all be sleeping anyway so I'll wait till today!! I did get the last petal detailed and finished. I have saved the red paint in case I need to tweak something later but otherwise I just have to complete the background and I can title it and sign it. The picture here doesn't really do it justice... I am very excited on how it has turned out so far!

I was is in organization mode last night and think I can finally find everything I need in the studio. Of course now that everything has a home I won't be able to find anything!!! We'll see how it goes though. While I was doing that, Chris was working on my Etsy shop. For now, it is a place where I can showcase and sell my Southwest line. I now have both my originals and prints up there. There are three waterfall scenes in there too but otherwise I am selling my Midwest line exclusively at arts festivals and on my website. In any case, Chris worked really hard on my Etsy shop and he did a really nice job. Check it out at amykayetaylor.etsy.com.

I am off to do some sewing today. I am working on a t-shirt quilt commission. Fun stuff!

Until next time...

More Rose

Hello! Here is the picture of wet rose that I was unable to access yesterday. Tomorrow I am planning on getting a picture with all the petals finished. Then, all I have left to define are the leaves in the background. How very exciting!

In other exciting news, I am working on my Esty shop, rather my husband is for me! He is very sweet!. I'm still learning everything about it from him so the more I learn the more I'll share. Right now he has posted my giclee prints on canvas for sale. They look fabulous! You can take a peak at amykayetaylor.etsy.com. I believe plans are to post more items tomorrow. and of course, I'll be checking back in here tomorrow also!

Until next time...

Nearly there!

Hello! Wow, time does fly when you have lots and lots to do!! I'm actually having some technical difficulties at the moment so although I did get a nice progress shot with only one petal left to finish on wet rose, it is not quite worth the fight right now to try and get up. But I did want to stop in and say hi. I wanted to let you know that I haven't forgotten you and I haven't stopped painting!

Until next time...

Wet Rose, Big Petal

Hello!

It has been an interesting day today. It has been raining most of the day but near the end it decided to throw about an inch of snow in too! To top off the weather drama, I was working on some tax paperwork to be able to sell art in Illinois and as usual, the language has to be different for every state... so I call the number to ask my questions, wait my fair share of minutes (my call was very important to them so I stayed on the line!!) and in the middle of my question they had a tornado drill and he had to say goodbye! Arg! Crazy weather!! After all that, I gave up and I'll try again tomorrow!

Much of the remainder of my day was spent in the frame shop but just before I had to go in, I was able to work on a big chunk of my painting. I finished painting a VERY large petal on my wet rose. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to finish the petals. That is the plan anyway.

Until next time...

Painting Wet Rose

Hello! Today was a wet and dreary day so it seemed fitting to stay in a paint! I felt in the mood to do some detail work so I started the finishing layer on wet rose. The details of the dew drops or rain drops or whatever kind of drops they are have been interesting to articulate. Each drop seems to have it's own personality depending on where it is laying on the rose. I've got the middle mostly worked out for now and that is what you are seeing in this picture. More pictures to come!

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Wet Paint!

Hope you are having a good Tuesday! Before I got busy and missed today, I thought I would post the final photo from farm scene. When it dries I can sign it and title it and it will be good to go! I may tweak a leaf here or there as it is drying and then my husband will make me sign it so I don't mess with it anymore! I have made a deal with myself that once a painting is signed, it is finished and I am not allowed to paint on it anymore. That keeps me from getting into too much trouble!! Now that farm scene is finished perhaps it is time to work on wet rose again! As far as I know, I have two interruption free days coming up so I can tackle wet rose and maybe finish it too! Stay tuned! Until next time...

Wet Rose Painting Day 4

Good Morning!
Wow, this seems a little weird to me. I have never blogged in the morning! However, I got some more painting done yesterday on wet rose so I thought I might go ahead and post the progress. I should be able to finish the under painting today. Then, I have a quilt and a mural to work on while it dries. More about that in a later blog!

Until next time...

Wet Rose Painting Day 3

Hello! Here is a quick post with the progress of wet rose. All of the petals are now in place. I just have to lay out the leaves and background. It's gotten all the up to 19 degrees... I think it's about warm enough to go for a run! More progress shots later tonight or tomorrow!

Until next time...

Wet Rose Painting Day 2

Good Morning! I suppose it is good morning as it is now past midnight and into the next day. However, I have not made it to bed yet so my mind is still on Wednesday!! I got a little excited about the progress of wet rose so I just kept going! I would say it is about half way under painted now. I call this layer the under painting because at the moment I am not concerned about minor details or major details for that matter. I just want to get a feel for the shapes, the layout, where some of the darks and lights will go. I will paint another layer on top of this one that will be more explicit and more dramatic.

As a side note but not too far off the beaten path, I received some exciting news in the mail today. I have been accepted into some top notch arts festivals this season in the Chicago area. I am quite amazed and absolutely thrilled! This is going to be a great festival season! Once things are squared away, I should have a full list of my shows this year on my website. I'll of course let you know when that is updated! As we would say on the running trail... Wooo Hoooooo!

Until next time...

Busy day

Hello!

I have a couple things to comment on this blog. First, take a look, it's the first step to painting Wet Rose. I now have it all mapped out with the petals and droplets just where I want them. I planned the painting on a small scale, in this case, I went straight from the photo. Often times I want to follow my own path and just use the photo as reference every now and again. This time, I am so pleased with my photo that I will probably stick rather close to it. Using a black and white copy of my design, I project the design onto the 36 x 36" canvas. I lay in important lines and now I'm ready to lay in some blocks of color. I'm hoping to get to that tomorrow.

Secondly, I went to help in the take in process at The High Road Gallery where my new cows were headed. It is a beautiful gallery. It is an older house converted into a gallery so it is very homey. My cows are over a fire place and look quite nice there! I have to go back and get a picture. I was trying desperately to get one green color to dry in time, so I missed any picture taking opportunities! But they made it there without getting paint on anyone! I also entered "When I Grow Up" of my field and tree paintings. My paintings are amongst a group of artists work from the Worthington Area Art League. It's going to be a very nice show!

Until next time...

Brand new "Follow a Painting"

Hello!

It's Sunday and I think I am ready to start a new "Follow a Painting." This one will be called Wet Rose until it is finished and titled. Today you are looking at the photo that inspired this painting. It is a picture I took of a rose in my father's garden. I think this is his favorite color and one of his pride and joys! I caught it on a day after it had just rained. That day, I was just snapping shots because it was so beautiful but now it's saying that I must paint it and paint it big!! This painting will be 36 x 36 inches. Can you imagine how fabulous those water droplets will be that large! I can't wait! This will take at least a couple layers of paint so come back and check on it's progress!!

And how are those cows you ask? Well, they are FINISHED!!! At the moment they are too wet to photograph but when they are ready, I will snap a shot for you to see! They turned out so sweet! They are headed to a gallery tomorrow so I'd better get the fan on it to speed dry!

Until next time...