One of my best friends went studying abroad last year, and in one of her trips she went to Scotland. As a gift, I decided to give her a landscape painting of a picture she took.
(In progress)
Final product! It happily lives in Jenna’s house! Although I don’t like landscapes that much, I like how this one turned out, especially the sky.
One of the paintings I did this semester was an abstract realistic painting. It’s a very strange painting, but I had fun making it. It’s definitely a different style than I normally do with my portraits. I don’t exactly know what made me add the eye, but it was a spur of the moment that turned the painting from abstract to creepy.
Here is the original painting I made earlier in the year, which had lots of colors, but had a more calm feeling.
I painted this while feeling randomly inspired! I really wanted to use lots of colors and make it more contemporary rather than accurate or realistic. I am pleased with the outcome but do not feel it is complete, so I shall be working on it while in my painting studio! Classes at DAAP have begun again and I am pleased to say that I share a studio with a peer, which is very exciting. I will bring several paintings and work on them then.The thing I didn’t like was the mouth, so I replaced it with a realistic looking eye.
It’s kind of fun to make a crazy addition to a painting and see how much the language and vibe changes.
This week in my Painting Studio, we are focusing on landscapes. Here are two small studies I completed in a 40 minute window. These studies are starting points for what will be a much larger landscape oil painting. 
This landscape is an image from Hocking Hills, Ohio.
This landscape is an image from Switzerland
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