Pretty good tip for keeping your colors looking fresh!

second day work in progress Day 2 Koi attempt to climb the falls and my next “monet” painting

Koi Painting work in progress painting…

Trying to pull together several painting so they can be finished, one for a customer, one for a show and one just for me.

Below you can see several paintings I have sitting about my studio space… I am working on all of them at once…. trying to get them either finished or started.   I work this way sometimes because its best to let some paintings sit rather then work on them too long.  They become over worked and stagnant if painted for hours and hours.   One is an oil painting which I just need a few adjustments and it will be complete…  its the water painting with the yellow trees.  The next looks like a light blue and purple combination, its also a water painting and we do not know where its going but I have a pastel kinda monet feeling for it so it will start in that direction.

The one on the floor is the one I started yesterday and I  will work on it today.  Its the only watercolor in the bunch so I’ll have to clean my pallet before I start painting it again.

This painting is sitting on my back porch to dry Its a combination of Gesso and watercolor painted on canvas.

Its still wet… Geisha of the Sea

This photo isn’t the best because the oil is reflecting off of the flash. I’ll take a better photo when the paint dries.

work in progress oil on wood

I painted the flowers and touched up her hair a bit. This piece is almost finished. I watched a surfing movie to get a feel for the wave and changed a few things on it. I’ll post the entire painting in the next day or two. The movie was call the billabong something… opps can’t remember I want to say Dynasty but thats not it.

Oil on panel, close up, work in progress Geisha

Perhaps this will be finished tomorrow… lets pray for rain.

Wip work in progress Water Geisha

I decided this painting needed to change its direction. The kimono in red was fighting with everything in this painting. I changed the reflective light in the face to blue and painted over the red kimono, now I’ll try to put some of it back in but this time it won’t be red.

WIP # 10 Geisha in Oil work in progress.

I’m trying to decide if I should put the flowers on the right side of the geisha or take them out… also  I’m trying to decide if the kimono color is right.  should I use analogous colors or should I keep it warm.

#9 WIP OIL Painting Geisha by Shanti Marie

I’m just now beginning to think of all the elements I may or may not put into this painting.

here is a close up of the paint, it has some texture which you can see here and there.

You can see the colors in the hair in this close up.

wip #8 oil painting in progress painting by Shanti Marie

You can see about three layers of various colors I have chosen to paint. These colors are about 4 times darker than the first layer of color. Most are the same colors only darker.

Here you might see I have started to put the color in for the Geisha. I always include the same colors in the background in the fore ground. Here I have painted purple, green and blue in the hair, because these colors are in the water. The red’s I choose are important… I’m thinking along the lines of opposites of the blues and greens.