New Day, new week, nothing but blue skies, shining on me! It's overcast outside, but not in here! I love my house! I have been thinking...

Last week (week 12) was horrid. And today, it's not much better. I have tried painting the same painting now four times, in oil, and it...

What do you think of my latest attempt at art? A simple fall landscape. Sometimes, nothing is better. Greens, Yellows, Purples, Blues......

Why is this happening, again? I get a quarter of the way into a painting and I want to "chuck". Colors are wrong. To stiff. Bad sketch to...

"Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house Not a creature was stirring not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the...

Below, is the default palette that Kathleen has at the start of every painting. The reason I'm making this post is two-fold. These are...

12/18/22 to 12/24/22 Below, are notes I have taken from Kathleen's video that I downloaded. This is a wonderful palette! So simple, but...

12/18/22 to 12/24/22 Friday and Saturday saw failures on my part. Nothing was working. So, I regrouped on Sunday and watched an extensive...

Too much Yellow Ochre. But, I won't be able to clean that up. I am going to try and paint every day for the next thirty days. Today was...

The picture below was generated using ImageFramer software on an Apple iMac. It allows me to create beautiful framed paintings for...

I pulled down the easel I had setup in the attic. It just did not work. I can do everything I need to do in my other studio with the...

Here are the finished and signed paintings. I decided to not do any other updates to them. Maybe later, but it's time to live with them...

I looked at the paintings the rest of the afternoon, and out of bad comes some good. The last painting is... "good"! The flower is kind...

Well... It's not a Monet but it sure does have a butt-load of color going on over there! He painted it on one canvas (5 steps). I had to...

My new easels and week 6 work-load.

Give me your thoughts! It definitely is not a duplicate of Monet's work. It's my take on it. I hope you like it! I used a lot of...

Steps 1 & 2 are done. Step 3 (below) was mostly just touch ups of colors and larger brush strokes. I was doing the "happy dance" because...

I started yesterday painting the first of three paintings of Monet's 1916 Lillies. This will be a little difficult to paint. The reason...

Not one Monet, but three. That's my project for next week. To start painting three Monet Lillie paintings. The thought came to me as I...

While painting yesterday, with the palette 90 degrees vertical the oil in the paint was running down the paper. Not good. Beside being...