Sarah's Painting Journal

It is always nice to be included in an Etsy Treasury, this is a nice one:   Etsy Treasury – IRIS Ridge
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6″X6″ Oil in panel
It is very frustrating to spend a couple of hours struggling to get the blues and mauves right and then to be dissatisfied with the way they render on the computer. Violet does seem to be one of the hardest colours to reproduce.
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3.5″X2.5″ Oil on paper
No time to write today.

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5″X7″ Oil on board
No, this isn’t a detail of yesterday’s painting but a whole other painting done at the same time and from the same place. I am already feeling nostalgic for my lovely weekend alone, anyone would think that I didn’t like my family or something.

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5″X7″ Oil on board
So this was a fairly productive weekend. If I didn’t have to work, and lived alone, who knows what I might achieve? Probably not a clean house, I don’t seem to get any housework done even when I have the opportunity. I did get a fair amount of gardening done and made [...]

4″X5.5″ Pen on paper
In the interest of maintaining my sanity, I am going to be posting some even simpler drawings during the week. I think it is probably good for me to do these line drawings anyway, I used to do them a lot. These irises are on the greenroom patio. We are very fortunate [...]

5″X7″ Oil on panel
This feels like the beginning of Spring. Finally we have temperatures in the teens (Celsius) and the spring flowers are bursting forth. You can almost see them growing. These irises were in tight bud yesterday, there are big daffodil buds today that were still underground yesterday. I am going to have [...]