cacti... a big one. oil on wood The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 335. To read more about this awesome project click here...
“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” ― Leonardo da Vinci oil on wood The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 334. To read more about this awesome project click here...
I am quickly approaching the completion of my second full year of making art every single day. I can't really believe it! This year has gone by so much faster than the first year. The one question that I get asked the most is what type of sketchbook do you use? Well, turns out I use a Bee Paper Super Deluxe. I am an oil painter through and through, but traditionally oil painters paint on wood panels or on canvas. I still paint on wood panels, but panels and canvas take up a lot of space, especially if you want to practice or just explore an idea. When I started my project, "Making Art Everyday," I needed something that wouldn't take up a ton of space and that could travel easily as well as be a place that I could paint whatever I wanted. Before I started my project, I was going through large waves of avoiding the studio, avoiding art and just being terribly uninspired. It may have had something to do with becoming a mother, the hormones involved with that whol...
tea for one. oil on wood The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 333. To read more about this awesome project click here...
10 minute sketch oil on paper The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 331. To read more about this awesome project click here...
sunrise, before the clouds rolled in. 20 minute sketch. The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 331. To read more about this awesome project click here...
I got totally absorbed into watching the new Gilmore Girls and only ended up having time for a 10 minute sketch. "People can live a 100 years with out really living for a minute." Logan Huntzberger. oil on paper The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 330. To read more about this awesome project click here...
in exciting news I survived thanksgiving. oil on paper The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 329. To read more about this awesome project click here...
my swan song... tomorrow is my very first thanksgiving at our house. I wasn't worried about it at all but everyone keeps asking me if Im ok and that I am going to do great. which makes me terrified. oil on paper The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 329. To read more about this awesome project click here...
took the kids to the museum, where there was a birds of prey exhibit. and there was a raven, who looked right at me oil on wood The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 327. To read more about this awesome project click here...
a early morning moment. oil on wood The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 326. To read more about this awesome project click here ...
10 minute sketch. it has been so stormy here. the clash of the ocean with the pour of the rain. oil on paper The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 325. To read more about this awesome project click here...
oh the ocean. 10 minute sketch. oil on paper The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 324. To read more about this awesome project click here...
sardines by the sea oil on paper The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 323. To read more about this awesome project click here...
tea oil on paper The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 322. To read more about this awesome project click here...
20 minute sketch. portrait practice. “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. oil on paper The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 321. To read more about this awesome project click here ...
The very last painting for the upcoming show- the Big 500! at the Ford Gallery. It's pretty much one of my favorite holiday Portland shows. More City Lights. Want to see more artwork from the previous years? Big 500 // Big 400 // Big 300 // Big 200 // Big 100 The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 311. To read more about this awesome project click here The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 320. To read more about this awesome project click here...
spent the whole day driving and did this quick landscape sketch of the bellowing clouds. oil on paper The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 319. To read more about this awesome project click here...
the moon was pretty fantastic last night. when getting out of my studio, I try to be inspired by what is around me and not think too much about it. Sort of like, letting it happen versus thinking a long time about one idea like I do in my studio. oil on paper The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 318. To read more about this awesome project click here...
twilight. is kinda the greatest around here. all the twinkling lights hanging over the mountains. oil on paper The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 317. To read more about this awesome project click here...
a couch that you just want to sink into and read a long book. oil on paper The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 316. To read more about this awesome project click here...
Out in the woods for the next few days, for a much needed break from suburban city life. Caught the sun this morning and a couple sleepy bears. oil on paper The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 315. To read more about this awesome project click here...
“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.” ― J.D. Salinger , The Catcher in the Rye oil on paper The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 314. To read more about this awesome project click here...
city lights, so lovely and bright. painting for the upcoming the Big 500 at the Ford Gallery Want to see more artwork from the previous years? Big 500 // Big 400 // Big 300 // Big 200 // Big 100 oil on wood The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 311. To read more about this awesome project click here...
As you may know, I have been working very hard the last two years to bring you my project, Making Art Everyday! I originally started this project because I had just given birth to my second child, and I wanted to make sure that I was able to be creative every single day while trying to be the best mom possible and the best me possible. This was a lot and especially being a mother a second time. Being a mom is one of the toughest jobs ever, and I wanted to keep a little piece of myself that had nothing to do with being a mother or a wife but it was just me, Erika. It was intended to be something special just for me and something that I would accomplish all on my own. My son, Everett, is about to turn two years old. Just around this time two years ago I was thinking about starting this art project, Make Art Everyday. After careful planning and deliberation, I started it on January 1st 2015 when my newborn son was about six weeks old. It actually sounds crazy just thinking about it,...
such a fan.. Painting for upcoming Big 500. Want to see more artwork from the previous years? Big 500 // Big 400 // Big 300 // Big 200 // Big 100 oil on wood The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 311. To read more about this awesome project click here...
Portland for the upcoming Big 500 show at the Ford Gallery. Want to see more artwork from the previous years? Big 500 // Big 400 // Big 300 // Big 200 // Big 100 oil on wood The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 311. To read more about this awesome project click here...
15 minute sketch. spent the day having my son's second birthday. the whole reason I started this art project of making art every was because of my son and keeping art in my life. oil on paper The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 310. To read more about this awesome project click here...
quick 20 minute sketch. a bunch of flowers! oil on paper The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 309. To read more about this awesome project click here ...
More sleepless nights. “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.” ― Sylvia Plath , The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath oil on wood The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 308. To read more about this awesome project click here...
Just a couple of fans. Painting for the upcoming Big 500 at the Ford Gallery. Want to see more artwork from the previous years? Big 500 // Big 400 // Big 300 // Big 200 // Big 100 oil on wood The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 301. To read more about this awesome project click here...
no time for art but did a lot of things on the todo list. 15 minute sketch. oil on paper The art (the best part) is part of my making art everyday project and this is day 306. To read more about this awesome project click here...
hazeljarvisstudio // lisadoherty03 // lambpocket // basakillustrates // dotsofpaint // andymalpica // loveluckbliss //ci ndymcd // lisaeks WoW! New Month which means a new challenge for 12 months of Paint! It has been really fun to see all the different art over the last 10 months and there are only 2 months left. November's theme is Autumn. To read more about the challenge click the link below. My talented cohosts for this project are : August Wren , Courtney Cerruti and Meighan O'Toole Want to read, learn and participate in #12monthsofpaint more info is here....
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