Portraits from 2014 - Ladies

Here's to playing catch up. I havent posted here in quite a while, but I have been painting. Here are some of the women I painted last year. All are oil on Canvas. The smallest works are 24x30 inches. 

Finished: Roxy

Paintings in Progress

Fixing a Broken Painting

Finished Painting

Oil on Canvas.
Copyright: moi

another class project

Still in Progress....

Lincoln / Doodle Paint

I'm home sick again today, but at least I have enough energy to paint. 

So, I listened to an audiobook called: 1861  by Adam Goodheart,

 and I tried to salvage my another one of my Lincoln pieces. 

I made the rather large mistake of starting this large painting without having any idea of where I wanted it to go.  I have already sanded this down and put a few thin layers of gray on top a failing painting underneath. I'm not totally sure where its going. I just know it needs to go somewhere.

I feel like I spent an awful long time putting in a ton of detail work, and I feel like it barely makes a difference.  Oh well. At least its still a mystery and something to discover.

Update: March 12th

2012 PAINTING REVIEW

I gotta say, its always tough to look back on my year of paintings. I always have the feeling that I still havent done the work I wanted to do. Here are several of the 2012 paintings. I couldn't quite find pictures of them all.  Most are oil on canvas and then there are the occasional watercolor. 

  

Painting Evolution - Garden Series #8 Rib Cage

all images copyright: Allie Kelley 2012

Painting Evolution - Garden Series # 7

In Progress: another painting in Garden Series

Painting Progression: Nesting Dolls

I enjoy watching the progression of things. Here are a few pics to show the progress of this piece.

Garden Series: Nesting Dolls 1   Copyright: Allie Kelley2012

Paintings in Progress...

Here are 2 paintings of the Garden Series that I am working on. The bottom green peice was an unfinished Peacock painting that I hadnt touched in years and really didnt like. After a wash of Naples Yellow, I was ready to start over on it.