green sandals

I like this painting a lot. It is funny because it makes me realize that I have many pairs of green shoes, but I don't actually wear green that much. strange. I like the cropping in this image.

illustrators rule!

School is out and I am finally going to have time to update my blog!!!!!! Last month was such a crazy month! I managed to get about 5 painting a day's done :o( very sad. Things have finally calmed down and now I can get back on track! With my awesome new scanner (thanks to mom & dad!) I should be updating this a lot more! Before getting right to the art, here is a picture from the night of graduation. I love it so much! All of these people (plus a few others that didn't make it into the photo) have been a big part of my life for the last four years. Critique after critique we've all helped one another out and I will never forget any of them! Thank you so much for everything! Hooray for Montserrat Class of 2007!!!!!!

Mojito Season!!!!

This is a fun painting I did while I was home in CT. Yummy limes that eventually found their home in a refreshing mojito!!!! I am finding that I really do love to paint food for some reason!

garlic

I did this painting the night of my last day of school. This shows how much of a nerd I can be. It was a weird day for me I wasn't that excited that school was over and all I wanted to do was paint. This was the result. I like it, but I like my first garlic painting better. That one can be seen on my website which should be done within this week!

grapes

I love this painting!!!!! I wasn't sure what would happen if I tried to paint grapes since I normally pay attention to all of the details and doing that with a bunch of grapes could be fatal. Knowing that, I attacked this painting in a different way and I love the result. My favorite thing about it is the way I captured many different colors in the purple of the grapes. Unfortunately I see that my elipse is weird, I can't figure out why I have had so much trouble with those this year. Freshman year I was a pro at them, I don't know what happened!

green pepper!

I had so much fun with my bananas I decided to paint a pepper the next day. This one was also fun, I have found that I enjoy painting fruit and vegetables

Bananas!!!

Sorry it has been so long, I am finding it hard to keep up with this blog while I am trying to finish school!
I did this painting a couple of weeks ago. There is something I like about it, it was fun cropping in close.

MA peppa-mints

These were a lot of fun! Lots of white.

Summer Shoes

My new summer shoes. It was fun to crop in close to these, makes the painting more abstract

I love the fishes cause they're so delicious!

This was another early painting, number 4. Looking back at these early ones I think I really do like that there is more than just the subject in the painting. It definitely adds more and makes the painting more interesting.

Garden Tool

This is a more recent painting. I exlored working on neutral backgrounds, I think that my white backgrounds were more successful than this brown color that ends up being in a few of them. I still like this painting, but I miss the colors!!!

breakfast

This was only the second Painting a day I ever did. I like this one a lot because it seems to have more of a setting. I have noticed that most of my paintings are becoming completely about the object in it, where this one includes the frying pan and gives you a way to picture where it might be.

blue peeps

This is another old painting, but I like the reflection i pulled off. I know i need to add my new paintings, this week is just killing me with everything I need to do, but I promise soon I will have new paintings up, maybe even tonight.

Robin's eggs 1

I love spring! I just wish we would have one already!

Andy's favorite cookies

I love this one! It was a lot of fun, I think I enjoy painting food the most. Luckily I did it while my boyfriend was at work. Otherwise he probably would have eaten my still life!

green sneaks

This was my first painting a day ever. It was done on March 18. I like this one especially since I can remember everything I thought about when I was painting it. I worried about so many different details and it took me longer than any of the others I've done since. Now I work hard not to do that. The best part about this project is that I am letting myself be more loose and I'm trying not to worry so much about the details. I think that it is really helping my painting style.

peeps!!

This painting I did a week or so before easter (once I get all of my paintings on here I'll figure out the dates). I had fun with this because I always enjoy doing paintings relevant to the time of year it is. I think it has some color issues, but I like it anyways!

Happy Birthday!!

This was my painting a day for April 9th, my birthday!! I have been wanting to try painting a cake or cupcake to see what it is like to paint frosting. I really enjoyed it, it let me be more free with my paint.