Easter Bloom

First of all: Happy Easter!

These lovely flowers just begged to be sketched for my 10th piece in the  '30 Days of Daily Sketching' challenge.
Another experiment regarding the approach - I started out with watercolors and then added some lines with colored pencils and a bit of pen lines.

One third of my challenge is already done! - Now I need some good ideas for what to sketch for the next two thirds!
Let me know by commenting here or on Facebook at facebook.com/regulascheifeleart.

Daffodils - slightly confused

I was reminded of a blog entry by one of the artist I follow. He posted a painting of a bowl with an orange in it and wrote: "I would have thought this was easier!"
That's how I felt today.
And confused.

The reason for my confusion: I decided to do my daily painting with acrylics instead of the usual oils. As you know I do paint a lot with acrylics, but usually these are big, abstract paintings. 
And I'm used to paint my smaller, figurative / realistic paintings in oils.

So sitting down today painting these daffodils, I had to remind myself that yes, acrylics dry fast. No, I cannot change the color on the canvas by taking another color up on my brush and mixing it in. And yes, acrylics do dry a little darker!


And although I love daffodils, they are not the most forgiving subject to paint... But then they smell lovely!

"Spring Flowers - 5"

Oil on panel, 6" by 6"
USD 65 (plus shipping)

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This is the sixth painting in the "Take 10 - Spring" challenge.
The paintings are also posted on my Facebook Artist Page Regula Scheifele Fine Art - I'd love to have you follow me on Facebook or subscribe to my blog!

Spring Flowers - 4

Nr 4 in my "Take 10 - Spring" challenge - and my 'Dailies' have become "Nightlies'...

"Spring Flower - 4"

Oil on panel, 7" by 5"
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This is the fifth painting in the "Take 10 - Spring" challenge.
The paintings are also posted on my Facebook Artist Page Regula Scheifele Fine Art - I'd love to have you follow me on Facebook or subscribe to my blog!

With a wink and a smile to Van Gogh...

I can't help it, these flowers are just too much fun to paint!
So Nr 3 in my "Take 10 - Spring" challenge is flowers again, this time yellow daisies. Three of them, enjoying their 'Van Gogh'-color-setting...

I'm curious: what subject do you think is 'typically spring'? I'd love to read your comments here or on my Facebook Artist Page Regula Scheifele Fine Art !

"Spring Flowers - 3"

Oil on panel, 7" by 5"
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Oh, and just because it's a beautiful spring Sunday - and the title of the post asks for it - here's some music to go along...

 

Spring Flower - 2

Nr 2 in my "Take 10 - Spring" challenge. The same flower as Nr 1, but I've played with the background color. Lush, vivid, fresh green!

I'm sure there are more variations to be painted of this one. And thinking of spring, flowers are the first things that come to mind for me. Though I do have some other subjects planned as well.
Stay tuned....

"Spring Flower - 2"

Oil on panel, 4" by 4"
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This is the second painting in the "Take 10 - Spring" challenge.
The paintings are also posted on my Facebook Artist Page Regula Scheifele Fine Art - I'd love to have you follow me on Facebook or subscribe to my blog!

"Take 10" - first challenge painting

In January I painted 30 paintings in 30 days - a great experience!
Yesterday I talked to my best friend and she asked me (actually nagged me) to keep on doing daily paintings.
 
No, I don't think I should or even wanted to commit to this.

But: as I love the idea, I've decided to - from time to time - challenge myself to paint 10 paintings in 10 days. And I'll call the challenge "Take 10". I think that is a manageable approach, don't you?

The motto for these first 10 days will be SPRING! (not very original, but I'm sure we're all ready for Spring...). So here is the first of my "Take 10 - Spring" paintings.

 "Spring Flower - 1"

Oil on panel, 4" by 4"

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Flowers 53

I knew I would not paint today, but had planned to have a painting ready to post. I don't.

So - my fall-back strategy: grab the iPad (gotta love it!) and do a digital sketch. Of whatever is around, which happens to be bunch of lovely flowers.
They make me happy, and the app 'Paper fiftythree' is great for those quick sketches!

"Flowers 53"

Digital Sketch done with 'Paper fiftythree'

This is painting Nr 19 in the "30 in 30" challenge, the paintings are also posted on my Facebook Artist Page Regula Scheifele Fine Art - I'd love to have you follow me on Facebook!