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Just felt like sharing a little midsummer gouache of a blue spruce and a yellow towel on the railing :)

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Learning to take time out in my travels to stop and make art. The best was drawing with my daughter and her girlfriend in beautiful Maui!

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Plein Air at Cre Elm

I came here for friends’ wedding party.

After the party, I noticed a text from my parents which said we lost our cat. I adopted him when newborn. .

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40 min gouache! Was so fun to try out some of my oil techniques back in gouache. As expected, I should probably find a light to dark way for the pattern to work, as it got a lil muddy going dark to light. I mean thick and opaque more than dark, mediums man

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Took my MCA learning to Gubbio, Italy and had a great time. No WiFi! When I get home i will catch up with everyone’s reviews and celebrate everyone.

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Getting so excited for next year!

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Was so fun to meet everyone today in life room. I’m so amazed with what everyone made! These are very small acrylic gouache paintings on illustration board. Getting a taste of next year.

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Beautiful day in the life room. So grateful!

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Last liferoom of the year :)

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Made it out to liferoom this morning with little Finn in tow 💜

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'practice makes patterns.. creates culture.. weaves new worlds..'

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Thanks for all the feedback on this! I think I’m just going to let it sit for a little bit now and get to mounting some work for the show. This palette is tired after lots of work and telling me to stop and clean!

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These last few precious MCA days are beginning to feel real. I started this figure in the liferoom a few weeks ago and finally completed her tonight in my home studio.

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無題のプレゼンテーション (6)

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無題のプレゼンテーション

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I’m just grabbing some things I’ve done quickly and putting them here. I haven’t had any time for over three weeks to think about any of this but sometimes time away is good!

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My neighbor took this stealth photo of me last month when I was making love to the ferns in my front yard. I sat on my butt to get down on the fern's level. The ferns were unfurling while I worked so it felt very alive! I took photos at the start and end of the painting session (slide to see). Nothing "still" about it!

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Decided to put it in a deck as it's easier to organize my thoughts that way

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Kimberly Trowbridge Ashley Johnson and everyone- I'm wondering if you have any feedback for me on this one or ideas of things to focus on for the next pass. Some areas that need some more definition perhaps are the teacup, the plate/garlic, the orange juice light? The green in the front continues to be a wrestling match?

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Weird little guy I did last Friday, I loved the reflection of the aqua canoe on the shadow side of the ladder. Current scrape, first pass, weird yellow-purple underpainting, and reference photo. Overall a strange one but I thought it would be fun to share.

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Pushed the blues in the background darker and added a bit more orange opaque paint to the form on the right hand side

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something new (and probably final piece)

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Making a mess but it feels open. Now I'm seeing clara peeters ovals everywhere. I'm really loving carving into the paint with a pencil like Ashley has been doing in recent demos weaving together different references. Maybe a lois dodd shadow of me on the green grass in the foreground?

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Reflections Part 2

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Reflections Part 1

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Diox. purple + mars yellow with cad green +pthalo green + magenta satellites and a wee bit of permanent yellow in a few spots. 

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Having done the under painting last week, this painting practically painted itself yesterday as I worked from direct observation of the light outdoors. This was mid-morning light. The window casing and drawing board need to come down in value to sit back. Threw in the Bonnard table and chair shape in the end. Needed something to fill all that space I had in there. Northern light from the north side window is reflected in the window (thanks to earlier crayon study).

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Will let it sit and decide what else I need to do...

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Will let it sit and decide what else I need to do...

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18 x 24

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I recently decided to revise an old still life from 2023. With the help of my new MCA eyeballs, I was able to revive it. Some of the major moves included making the geometry more visible especially in the pot, creating a stronger temperature shift in the squash and adding a gradient to the sky to give it more importance. So grateful for my instructors, cohort, and perseverance! Swipe to see the revised version.

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Feeling v rusty and felt like a crayon value study was a nice way back into the color world. Went hiking after getting hitched and snapped a pic of a mushroomy, mossy moment that I wanted to work with when I got home. Feels good to be back in this space! 🥹🙏

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Made some more progress on this one!

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Sitting with my mother. I’m still here! It was good to take a few precious moments and put color on paper.

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A quick crayon sketch from Zion! It got pretty abstract and I didn’t capture the depth at all, but I’m still liking it.

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Thanks for all of your comments!! I came back to grab brush/pencil. All Atelier Day always gives me energy. Such a special community we have online and in-person.

Short sketch at Greenlake. The blue lines are made by Coco. lol

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Peaceful painting session today, totally worth braving the rainy day traffic jam for! I focused on the dissolution of shapes and value today.

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My first liferoom painting

Himi gouache

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I'm loving doing gouache studies before oil painting! They are so helpful for quick iterations and troubleshooting.

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Continuing this deep dive into cabbage! Learning, grappling, returning. Today it was a treat to return to drawing from direct observation. I'll post my other research below. I've been toggling between these drawings, memory, and photos while making the bigger paintings.

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Light study in crayon & Liferoom collage

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Light study in crayon & Liferoom collage

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Trying out some obstruction ideas like Liberti’s shower glass. It’s hard to get desaturated enough with the crayons, but really interesting to go for a more scratchy texture.

Also did a fun collage today at the Wednesday liferoom at SLU.

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I think she might be done, been living with her a few days to see.

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Painting on a linen covered board that I primed and toned with a greenish umber a few years ago. Can’t remember exactly. 

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I’m having so much fun with this.. it’s quite a brain teaser!

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2.  Little doodling this morning - but enough now.

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Evening Kimberly Trowbridge. Really struggling with this one feedback please. 1. Is the orange horizontal line too much? 2. Tried going grey but just wasn’t doing it. Went a little warmer 3. Maybe just move onto another one as this one just not happening? 4. Colours too mucky? So hard to get a good photo of the painted image. Enjoy your weekend. K x

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Friday liferoom

Crayons

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Playing with the de Heem on top of a yellow/violet underpainting. This is post-scrape after a first pass. It got a little wild with the colors, chasing the reference a bit, so I think I’d like to go back in and clarify shapes and clarify temperature with a more solid yellow light/purple shadow temp structure.

I’m working bigger for this one (12x16 paper), because I figured out a way to attach a board to my travel easel! Posted a photo of my setup. Yes, that’s my refrigerator, lol

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More WIP

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I’ve just reflected the past three years. How much struggle I had to know the oil painting industry. How I changed before and post childbirth. It’s so emotional and I have no idea how to participate the last three weeks.

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Working on a new process that blocks in warm light, finds an analogous shadow + cool spots (uglow), then add cool light. With scraping and calibration I can get a glowing effect as seen in the bottom one. I’m loving the yellow/violet + green that I learned from Alber’s AND the Uglow temp shifts. I added in the square pieces from Albert’s that show how the colors shine together.

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A little chard baby crayon

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Slow progress

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Maybe it was the Chris Liberti yesterday or maybe it’s the new medication I just started, but holy f I woke up with so much energy today! Getting back on the horse with some backlit flowers in pencil and crayon. Also started another version of the de Heem in oil, which feels sooo good. I’ll post when I get farther into it! This creative life-project (as KT called it) is a wild ride

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Made this inspiration gallery LAST NIGHT

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Made this inspiration gallery LAST NIGHT

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WIP!

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UPDATED PHOTO which is closer to the real colour.

Sorry for all the iterations - but slow progress. Wanted to get Waxy and a little more abstract with this one but may leave it for the next one

!!! Thinking too much and not painting enough pondering curtain

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Taking a bit of a different path with each and seeing what shakes out in the process. I enjoyed working with the palette knife in the second one quite a bit! Would like to carve out some more specific shapes. Planning to pull back on the yellow and find a way to integrate the foreground better in the first. Might want to dip into collage. 🤔

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It's officially the week leading up to my wedding, so logistics are gettin' bonkers and painting time has been scarce. Navigating this shoe mountain range has been so soothing to return to in the moments that I can. Still a couple things I'd like to resolve or adjust, but I'm really grateful for what this piece has taught me so far. And it's a mix of my partner's and my shoes all jumbled together and maybe I'm just feeling awfully sentimental about that metaphor these days 🥾🏔️✨

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Another take  / Working from sketch and painting below

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Another take  / Working from sketch and painting below

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I want to get more abstract with the subject of my previous post. This is a 24 x 30, different painting of the same scene then I started on top of another painting that I did not like. I’m finding great use for those!. I looked a lot at my messy sketch from life and used memory. I like playing with the physicality of the paint and the shapes.

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Violet+Marigold Yellow+Magenta+”sky blue” (cyan-ish blue?) Holbein acrylic gouache.

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Ever since I saw Helena’s dandy lion, I have wanted to paint one too. Suddenly overnight, they popped up everywhere. They told me today is the day.

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Finally got the chance to bop over to a life room open studio I found in the area! They only get up to 25 min per pose, so the crayons were great for working quickly. I did add more chonk to the shapes afterwards.

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Temperature underpainting

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This is a 48x60” painting I’m finishing for my friend. I did a little sketch at one point - and I used some photos.

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Had a doughnut on the way home from life room and that gave me a sugar rush to ride. Trying some compositional adds.

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Super fun at liferoom today! Dioxizine violet and cad yellow light + quinacridone red.

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Only had energy for pencil and crayon today and it was fun!

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Good to be back in the liferoom! Cadmium Yellow Medium / Dioxazine Violet, with Cobalt Teal and Quinac Magenta satellites.

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Chunky crayons

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From the arboretum with Nate! I tried to focus on gathering data specifically with a bigger oil painting in mind. And a gouache value study of the calla lilies, but I could only look at my crayon drawing since I didn't take a good photo of the scene.

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Had a nice time being a troll and hanging out under a bridge with Helena. I left my normal process on the shelf and just dove right into detail. Added some pencil work after the fact to play with some value shapes.

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Washy lines disappearing kind of liked them - but putting more paint on and seeing where it goes - probably where it always ends up hahaha. Curtain next.

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Paper and pencil today - pushing myself to do things I am not so crazy about. And it wasn’t so bad.

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Gathering data. One of my favorite. I will keep it in mind for future painting

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Figure session, CYL and DP - 2 light sources!!

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Figure session, CYL and DP - 2 light sources!!

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Really tried to get the 2 light situation. I’m happy with the outcome. I need some help on how to photograph oil paintings now that I am doing more nuanced work - the color is a lil washed out here.