Sunday, Sept 8th, 2019

Day 8 of 30 Day Creative Gathering
WIP oil portrait painting

I’m revising this painting using the Zorn palette. The colors before didn’t really match my style..green, and orange. I’ve always liked orange, but not so much green, especially dark green. This is what it looked like before..

I’ve aged her quite a bit by giving her lines around her mouth..or maybe she’s aged me. lol I’m far from being finished with this one. I don’t like it all that much, so once the oils have dried, I’m probably going to make big changes.

Monday, Sept 9th, 2019

Day 9 of 30 Day Creative Gathering

I worked on her arm a bit today, and her face. Had other work to get done, so didn’t spend a lot of time on it.

This is what love looks like
Only the bestest of frens
would sleep like this.
LMAO
😇😅😀🙃

And now some clouds because I was up bright and early…

Gorgeous sunrise
the sun looked itty bitty poking through the trees

I’m so thrilled to live where I can see the sunrise every day. It’s been one of the things I’ve been most grateful for since moving here.

This house has lots of light..windows in all the right places. I love my other house, but I’m so much happier living here, probably because I’m getting my vitamin D on. 🙂 I’ve become a  tanned sun worshiper since moving here.

I open my door each morning, excited to see what kind of show the universe is putting on for me out there. She outdid herself today. Dang! This is what looking west looked like.

Tuesday, Sept 10th, 2019

Day 10 of 30 Day Creative Gathering
oil portrait painting

I worked some more on her face today..cutting this painting session short once again because I have other pressing work to get finished. I’m up to my eyeballs in work. Gah.

September is a busy month for me, and I never intended on doing the 30 in 30. The only reason I’m doing it is because Sheila took over, and I knew I didn’t want to miss out. Since completing the 365 day daily painting challenge back in 2017-2018, I experienced pretty bad burn out. I’ve stayed away from challenges of any sort.

However, like the fool I am, I’m seriously considering doing another 365 day challenge in the near future. I started thinking about it again when my birthday rolled around back in July because that’s when I started the last one, but I decided I wasn’t quite ready to fully commit.

The resistance I feel isn’t with painting itself. I paint daily anyway. It’s about documenting, keeping track, blogging, and social media that I get weary of doing. We’ll see. If I can figure out a way to do all that without constant stress, I’ll do another 365 day challenge. I have to think about it, and come up with a plan. I won’t be doing it the same way I did last time, and hopefully I’ll avoid burnout.

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