Art, Texture and Color

BIG SPECIAL

2012-01-02T16:12:00.000-08:00

In my shop
http://artbydonnarose.etsy.com
I have a BIG SPECIAL section and every painting in this section is 50% off the price you see. Just contact me in my Etsy site and I will give you a special code before buying and it will change the price to the 50% off price.

This will take you directly to the BIG SPECIAL section.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/ArtByDonnaRose?section_id=10908676

New Acrylic Paintings

2012-01-02T14:20:00.000-08:00

Experimenting

2011-12-09T08:31:00.000-08:00

Going to work with Acrylics and mediums today.
Hope to show the results later.

Acrylic Color Chart

2011-11-29T08:43:00.000-08:00

Finished my color chart. I limited the colors or I would still be working on it. You can make it with many colors or just a few. I think I will also make a chart of primaries with different blues, reds and yellows.

Color Chart

2011-11-27T12:07:00.000-08:00

Talked to a fellow artist last night and we talked about color charts. Made a great color chart for oils years ago and still have it. Now that I'm painting with Acrylics I decided to make a new color chart for them. They take some time to make but they are so helpful. (Ex. trying to find a good green to paint sage brush. Just have to look at your color chart to see what blue and yellow you need)
Will post photos once it is finished.

Hope for a new workshop

2011-11-26T15:04:00.000-08:00

My friend Maria told me that we have a new artist moving to our area. She will rent from another friend of ours. We are hoping she will give a workshop once she settles in. Her work is lovely. I'm switching to acrylic and she is an oil painter, of course. Maybe tomorrow I can get more information since I'm hoping to see our friend that is renting to the artist tomorrow. I will post more once I learn more.

Acrylic and Mediums

2011-11-20T22:03:00.000-08:00

Will continue to paint with acrylics and watercolors. Was going to go back to oil paint but the drying time drives me crazy. So going to work with acrylics and mediums. I've work some with the gel medium and going to experiment more with it. If anyone has worked with it with their acrylic paints please feel free to share.
I work with acrylic in more of an oil paint style. The gel extends the drying time and I always paint with a water spray bottle handy to spray my canvas from time to time and onto my paints.

part of a series of leaves

2011-11-17T14:30:00.000-08:00

Organization

2011-11-16T15:37:00.000-08:00

Need to be more organized
Art room is almost there
acrylics - oil not working so well (thought I would go back to oil....mind change)
takes too long to dry
may stick with acrylics for awhile

Fall Leaves

2011-11-14T15:46:00.000-08:00

Have painted a couple little fall leaves paintings and have had very nice comments. Going to paint more in watercolor and will post them here.

Deciding if I want to go back to oils or keep working with Acrylics. Oil paints are creamier and move nicely across the canvas. Acrylics dry faster but I have some new mediums to play with.

Yellow Rose

2011-11-14T15:40:00.000-08:00

Good day
Posted this painting, which is also my avatar for my blog.
Posted it here
http://www.dailypaintworks.com/Artists/dderrer-2327
and it is also in my etsy shop here
http://www.etsy.com/shop/artbydonnarose
also finished a new challenge painting and will post that here later.

ACEO

2011-11-09T07:53:00.001-08:00

Now that I see people that view DPW (Daily Paint Works) are starting to view my blog I need to keep it updated daily or almost daily.
This is an ACEO (Art Cards Editions and Originals) that was painted to add to dorana's collection.
You can see her beautiful Jewelry here http://www.etsy.com/shop/dorana

Challenge.... Using only Rectangle Strokes

2011-11-08T23:29:00.001-08:00

My DPW Gallery can be viewed here
http://www.dailypaintworks.com/Artists/dderrer-2327

Something New

2011-11-08T22:37:00.000-08:00

This is my first updated post. I very recently (Nov. 1, 2011) joined a new Art Site, DailyPaintWorks. It is a site to show and sell Art. It also has a weekly Challenge and I have entered one so far. A painting painted with only rectangle strokes.
I will still continue to sell my Art and Fiber Art on Etsy.

My art on DailyPaintWorks has a link in my Gallery to this blog and that is a good reason to update and work on posting more regularly .

We'll see how it goes