Movin' & Packin'

A few weeks ago our rental company came to us and informed us that the owners of our home want to sell.  So guess what! We're moving!! We signed the lease and got the keys to our new house yesterday.  

It is a bit smaller then our current home but it is nice.  It is going to be exciting trying to figure out how to fit 4 bedrooms into 3 but I have confidence that we will be able to do it.   

With each move, this will be our 4th in 6 years, I believe we have a theme song.  The theme song for this move is- 

The most interesting part of moving for me it going through all of my old art work.  I find things that arnt my best works but that give me ideas on how to rework them and make them better.  I have so many creative pieces that just need a little more love to be awesome.   I also found a pair of windows that I got almost 5 years ago that I want to turn into a sort of shadow box.  Soo many projects, so little time :) 

Wish me luck setting up my new house and studio.  Hopefully we wont have to do this again for another 2 years.

Today is also my last day of Summer Semester.  Fall Semester starts September 1st so I dont get much of a summer break.  Oh well.  I will be taking Head and Figure Sculpture, Still Life Painting 2, Quick Studies, and Small Business Entrepreneurship.  It is going to be a busy semester BUT I only have 7 classes left until I graduate!!! 

Stay tuned, on Saturday the 13th I will be posting some tips on how to keep a daily sketch journal.  

Have a great rest of your week. 

Pacific Coast

Pacific Coast

watercolor on paper

 22 x 24

For Landscape Painting. Final. Previous step.  I love this.  I think it my best work this semester.  Today I mostly worked on the sand and the wave.  I think I may enter this is a local gallery show. 

Pacific Coast WIP, Future Site of Another Camarillo High School

Pacific Coast  WIP

watercolor on paper

  22 x 24

For Landscape Painting. Final work in progress. Previous step.  Much better.  I worked a lot on the ocean and the mountains.  I still need to do a little bit more in the ocean, concentrate on the wave, and finish the sand.  Im really liking the way this is going :) 

Future Site of Another Camarillo High School

watercolor on paper

  9 x 12

For Landscape Painting.  Paint a location that is going to be developed.  This beautiful field is the future site of another high school. This was difficult to do as it was at sunset at the beautiful highlights that were on the mountains when I started were long gone by the time I finished.

Night Tree

watercolor on paper

  12 x 9

For Landscape Painting. Another nocturne. School is about learning and I have learned that I do not like painting at night. I think it is silly.  I painted this underneath a street lamp so the colors were very different when I brought it inside.  The image below is what it looks like under the streetlamp light.  

 

Sky on Fire, Ferris Wheel, Lamppost, Pacific Coast WIP

Sky on Fire

watercolor on paper

  9 x 12

For Landscape Painting. Free choice.  I was so horribly uninspired for this assignment.  Between school and work and finding out we have to move I have lost my creative drive.  I am soo stressed out it is hard to create art.  I had to make myself sit down and push through these assignments.  

I ended up using some of my personal reference for this instead of painting from life.  There is nothing from life I feel like painting right now.

Overall I like how this turned out.  Clouds are a hard subject.  I would like to practice them more.  

Ferris Wheel

watercolor on paper

  12 x 9

For Landscape Painting.  Free choice.  This didnt turn out as I imagined it but that is ok.  I wanted it to look a bit more abstract.  Also done from a reference.  I did this while working at the skatepark which was a challenge in itself. 

Lamppost

watercolor on paper

  12 x 9

For Landscape Painting. Nocturne- painting at night.  Not my favorite way to paint.  All the values looked good outside, I brought it inside and they all looked wrong.  Im not very happy with this.  Probably the most difficult assignment this semester and I still have 1 more I need to do. 

Pacific Coast  WIP

watercolor on paper

  22 x 24

For Landscape Painting. Final work in progress.  Just cover the paper with paint.  Im not nearly as far along with this as I would like to be.  I have a day off on Friday so hopefully I will be able to dedicate a good amount of time to this.