Sunday, January 31, 2016

"30 Paintings in 30 Days" - Collage & Wrap-up

The challenge is finally over. Although I enjoy doing the challenge by mid-month I have a love/hate relationship with doing the paintings. I generally start off the month by being one or two paintings ahead just in case a day comes along when I don't get to paint, but eventually I am back to that feeling of needing to get one done for the next day. It does help that I make sure my painting for the following day is always ready...just in case I still have that day to paint it. lol I picked doing flowers for the challenge because I always feel that I haven't handled the shading on them as well as I should. I do feel a little more comfortable now. Anyway, to all of you who have stopped by to see some or all of my paintings, my sincere thanks. I always enjoy seeing comments by everyone. Another good part about the challenge is that I usually find a few participating artists whose work calls to me for some reason and after the challenge I will continue to follow their work.

My finale is a collage of images of all the paintings I did for the "30 Paintings in 30 Days" challenge.
#30paintingsin30days

My thanks to Leslie Saeta for hosting the challenge and getting so many artists all over the world to create so many paintings in so short of a time.

You can see the other collages created by the artist here:

And back in my normal sketching/painting world...this week Barry modeled for my morning sketch group. I did one portrait and one sketch of him.




12 comments:

  1. A BEAUTIFUL Collage! all the best to YOU = )

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  2. Joan I so love your flowers! And I am in awe that you were able to do so many sketches or second paintings each day. All the best to you :)

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  3. Joan - all your flowers were absolutely beautiful. What a great accomplishment. I certainly can understand that love and hate thing half way in between. Glad to see you have returned to your other wonderful sketching endeavors. Hope you have a super week. Hugs!

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  4. Thanks, Sue!

    Sheila, thank you so much.

    Debbie, thanks. Hope your weekend was great too.

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  5. Wow, Joan, that is one seriously beautiful collage! You really did yourself proud on this challenge and it was a lot of fun to do it alongside you. Thanks for all your encouragement and support along the way.

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  6. wow, wonderful series of flowers!!! Congratulations!!!

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  7. Your collage looks amazing, it was fun to follow along! Congratulations, I know the feeling you are talking about and how hard it is to stick with it for a whole month.
    Great work on the portrait!!!

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  8. Wendy, thank you. It was fun to share the journey with friends.

    Thanks so much, Oty.

    Celia, thanks for following along!

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  9. Congratulations, Joan, on completion of your challenge! Lovely work!

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  10. Wow, they look great together! You are amazing!

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  11. Your floral patchwork looks amazing Joan. If only you could print them onto material to make a quilt. Congratulations on achieving all the challenge.

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  12. I enjoyed all your 30 day flower sketches, and I love the way they look all together in the "collage". Congrats on finishing all 30 days. I knew you would!

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