Daily Painting Alameda Dahlias Emily Weil Art

Daily Painting | Alameda Dahlias - Emily Weil Art

Daily Painting | Alameda Dahlias - Emily Weil Art Sidewalk blooms flourish outside urban maker farm near my marina (these dahlias are from a summertime photo). spent better part of weekend slopping drippy wet paint around, using my kitchen counter as an artboard; i have new paint spatters decorating my laptop. These plate sized dahlias were a knock out, and frankly hard to capture with watercolor (at least for me); they are so full and blowsy and i mean that in a good way.

Daily Painting | Dahlias - Emily Weil Art

Daily Painting | Dahlias - Emily Weil Art The art business has pretty much kicked my butt, and i’m stepping back from the grind of trying to be seen and to sell my work. it’s disheartening, the disrespect i’ve encountered in the last few years from galleries and other professional art entities. I wanted to play with paint as opposed to creating a nice watercolor. art students often feel pressure to create something that proves they have some worthy skills. the highest compliment, i once thought, was, “ooh, that looks exactly like a pink flower against a fence!”. [worked on this painting to hopefully sell in an estes park gift shop; sometimes i see local bald eagles engaged in in air battles with osprey, seemingly in territorial battles]. I can let go of worries and heartache at least for the afternoon. this painting started as a sheet of yellow/ochre paint. as it dried in the sun, a leaf floated down and landed on it, so i kept it on the paper and painted over it. then i did it again and it didn’t work, but the heart shape happened. the magic of watercolors thrills me.

Daily Painting | Alameda Corner - Emily Weil Art

Daily Painting | Alameda Corner - Emily Weil Art [worked on this painting to hopefully sell in an estes park gift shop; sometimes i see local bald eagles engaged in in air battles with osprey, seemingly in territorial battles]. I can let go of worries and heartache at least for the afternoon. this painting started as a sheet of yellow/ochre paint. as it dried in the sun, a leaf floated down and landed on it, so i kept it on the paper and painted over it. then i did it again and it didn’t work, but the heart shape happened. the magic of watercolors thrills me. "when i prep a large canvas for a painting with acrylics — or when i tack a blank sheet of arches watercolor paper up — i welcome the nervous excitement of expressing myself with paint, charcoal, pastels, india ink, or maybe a mix of red dirt from the berkeley hills. Categories: uncategorized tags: abstract · abstract painting · colorado · hummingbirds · rockies · support · window ← daily painting | spectacle. Before our meeting, i arrived early at franklin park in alameda and started this painting of one of the lovely homes bordering the park (this went better than teaching architectural angles of roof lines). Trees. i love them. i hug them. i thank them and revere them. and i don’t enjoy drawing or painting them. not sure why — just not drawn to them, unlike flowers which i can paint every day. so it’s a good exercise to use them as subject matter. it stretches me.

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