poetryandart

Just trying to learn more about painting roses.  They are definately a challenge for me.  This one is oil on canvas.  But I want to try doing some in acrylic.  I have no experience using acrylic, but I am ready to try it.  Not sure what medium to use is best, wether canvas or paper or what.  Ive been watching you tube videos on my phone of someone that paints amazing antique roses and trying hard to learn the techniques. If I was a gardener I would have a front yard full of roses.  I just love them all colors, all shapes and sizes.  They are such a beautiful flower.  Someone said the Earth laughs in Flowers.  I believe it !

SUMMER IS DEFINITELY HERE We have 108 degrees here today in the eastern part of our state where I live and its TOO hot... even for my dog who just lays around all day, until the evening when it starts to cool off.  I can not keep the grass green in the front yard no matter how I water -- its like I told someone "it dries out while I am watering it".  Whew... its going to be in the 90s-100s all week.  Now that is a HOT SPOT that comes free as oppose to my new LG phone where the hot spot does not. Anyway, it is definitely summer now here in the northern hemisphere.. and so I thought I would post my "SUMMER FARMLAND" painting -- it is oil on canvas that I did several years ago now, probably about ten years ago as an estimate.  It has bright colors and taken from the inspiration of the farmland that we have around here in the summer. SUMMER FARMLAND Oil on Canvas I have posted this painting on Pixels.com under Cheryl Godden gallery page where you can...

  Just posted this on a website called Pixels for print making.  I painted this a few years ago.  I had a lot of fun painting it -- this one seem to come easy for me to paint.  They are not all like that unfortunately, I wish they were.  Some are hard work! This is oil on canvas.  A study in flowers mainly.  Painting is my most fun/interesting thing to do and I either cant find enough time or enough ideas to paint.  It helps if I have a blank canvas sitting here staring at me to give me the inspiration and the umph to paint.  I have been painting for about forty years now and I still feel like I have just started because there is so much to learn about the art.  But I will keep on practicing sort of like a doctor practices, you are always learning.