Work in Progress....Fuzzy Dice 2

Haven't worked on this for a few weeks.  Sometimes life just gets in the way.  Hope to be able to work on it more this weekend.  Trying to get many cars painted for a February show.  I'm teaching an oil class this afternoon.  I did a 6" x 8" oil of this car previously.    "Fuzzy Dice 2"  watercolor 18" x 21"  www.dianemorganpaints.com

WIP oil demo at Eldorado Polo Club

Painted today at the Eldorado Polo Club matches.  My gallery is a sponsor so we had a front row table for lunch.  The gallery had a large display for several of the artists' work as a promo to get people to come to the gallery.  It was fun to be able to watch the matches while painting.  I made pretty good progress in about 4 hours.  Not sure how many, or if, I'm going to add the tree silhouettes as shown in the reference photo.  Just going to let the painting percolate for a few days and see what it says to me.  "Eldorado Sunset" oil on canvas, 20" x 16"

Sunflowers class demo

I taught a class today.  I just love it when I get paid to paint and get to go home with a painting, too :-} Plus, they are all such nice ladies.  Only 5 made it out of 10 expected, but I get paid the same no matter what so it was a real treat to only have 5 students...much more one-on-one time. 

Work-in-progress BMW commission

This is a commission for my dentist....his cherished BMW. He took me for a 0-60 speed ride in an empty parking lot that scared the socks off me. FAST car! This is in exchange for two crowns. Dollar-wise a decent payment. However, for him that's about 4 hours work....for me maybe 30 hours. Oh well...I should have been a dentist. This is 18" x 21" watercolor on Arches 300#. I'm probably one-third done. Right now it kinda looks like a moonlight scene on the moon...many washes and details to go.

Rainy Day Rose workshop WIP

Taught a class today and presented this rose which was a little more complicated than I usually do for a class. There were a few moans and groans, but in the end they were all happy to have been pushed to try to learn water drops. For the first two hours there was not a peep out of any of them they were concentrating so hard. After lunch everyone was more talkative. Maybe they just needed nourishment. There wasn't enough time for anyone to finish. They invited me back in two weeks for a portrait demonstration so they have an assignment to finish the rose (and so do I) "Rainy Day Rose" watercolor 15" x 21" 300# Arches.

Unfinished business. Works in Progress

Here's what happens when you teach a bunch of 3-hour workshops. Works in Progress. Lots of paintings started and not finished.