an arting life
Drawings and paintings by artist Eibhlin. Oil paintings, acrylics, pen & ink, and sketches.
I’m still deciding how to represent the effects of snow on the landscapes outside my window. These are two sketches from the snowstorm on Saturday evening. I’m not sure if either of them is a completed work… yet. The first is a piece that I thought I’d completed, but the more I look at it,…
This is my 18″ x 24″ oil painting, Flurries Variation (13 Jan 2011). It’s sort of a landscape, but also an abstract. To be honest, it’s a bit of an enigma for me. Here’s the story: After I’d sketched-in the larger flurry painting – which turned out as a very high-key painting – I wanted…
This was one of my free, one-day downloads. For 24 hours (17 – 18 Jan 2011), people could download a printable copy of my b&w fine art drawing, Pandorica #4. It would print on an 8.5″ x 11″ sheet of white paper at 150 pixels/inch. This was the first of my one-day downloads. From time…
This morning’s skies looked ominous at first, and the colors were there for just a couple of minutes. I was glad that I’d already set out my palette with the colors I was likely to need. This was a small, fast oil sketch on an 8″ x 10″ canvasboard. Many sunrises feature the brightest colors…
It was another sunrise with quickly-changing skies. I had to work very quickly to capture the colors on these two 8″ x 10″ canvasboards. The first one includes darker colors and higher contrast. (In real life, the reds aren’t that vivid, blue-ish, or light.) The sun was just coming up (in back of me) and…
With some minor changes, the larger Flurries at Dusk painting is now completed. (See the nearly completed version plus backstory, here. Mostly, I added contrast in some areas, and softened the white areas in the sky.) It’s a higher key than I’d expected, but I’m pleased with the lyrical quality of the color. The completed…
This weekend, I completed the fifth of my Pandorica-inspired drawings. This is the first of the bigger drawings. The circle is about 10 1/2″ across, and it’s drawn on a 14″ x 17″ sheet of paper. The design was drawn, one block at a time, using a zero-point Koh-i-Noor drawing pen and black India ink….
I’m beginning to work on larger paintings, based on some of my recent color studies and oil sketches. The photo (above) shows the first stage of this painting. I’m happy with at least half of it, so the finished work won’t look tremendously different… or at least I don’t think it will. (Sometimes a painting…
This is the second of two paintings of this morning’s sunrise. Within minutes of completing the early sunrise painting, shades of pink seemed to dominate the sky. Continuing the theme of “urgency” from my previous work, I deliberately chose a larger canvas. This painting is on an 11″ x 14″ stretched canvas. My thought was:…
This is the first of this morning’s two oil paintings capturing the sunrise. I was consciously working with more vivid colors to capture the true impression of the sunrise. Though I wanted to keep tweaking the painting to get it “just so,” I’m also very inspired by yesterday’s discussion with my daughter, Amber. As we…
Some of my oil sketches are sort of doodles… quick artwork exploring themes. That’s a good description of this sketch of the woods near our home. The purpose of this was to see what would happen if I tried to convey sunset colors through the trees. It’s a whimsical piece giving me more to think…
I hadn’t planned to paint on Saturday. My husband and I spent most of the day running errands. The new indoor farmers’ market in Concord (NH) was a delight, and we returned home with great food items and some yummy-smelling soaps. However, as sunset colored the landscape, there was an amazing contrast between the lilac…