Elise - weekly portrait, Debbie Miller

 

10x10 oil on panel

Painted Elise tonight. 

Green Chair

8x10 (I think) oil on wood panel

After finishing up a portrait, I often grab another panel - a leftover or wonky sized board - to do a quick painting on before the time is up.  Usually these are looser and more colorful.  This is one of them.

I'm learning alot from these - maybe I'll post some more over the next month.
You can see the first portrait HERE

Vacation Santa -debbie miller,daily painting,beach scene

6x6 oil on panel

I actually saw geraniums in bloom in someones window boxes yesterday.  It is December in N.E. right?

Portrait study - debbie miller



6x6" oil on panel

Painting or drawing the figure from life - there is nothing like it. 
This was a quick 20 min. pose. 

(now that I sit here looking at it, reminds me of a really skinny Santa....eat Papa eat!)

Nadia - portrait painting,Debbie Miller

10x10 oil on panel
Finally back at the portrait painting.  Makes me happy.  Painting people is so fun.
See more HERE 

So where is that 'sweet spot' - that bit of the painting that is just yummy to me? 
 I've got a few on this one, but if forced to pick just one....it would be the negative space around her ponytail hair.

heres a cell phone photo of the model Nadia - super bad photo but the gist of it is there

Lindsey - portrait painting,Debbie Miller,

10x10" oil on panel.
With out a doubt - painting faces - is my favorite thing to do. It never gets dull.
Sometimes I see people and think 'ooooh great face, I would love to paint that face".
So if you know me and I'm looking at you funny - dont worry - nothing is stuck in your teeth... I'm just working out a painting in my head :)
check out more HERE

Fascinator - portrait painting,Debbie Miller,red roses

10x10 oil.

Now that's a fascinator hat. I had fun painting this one.

Great hat + beautiful girl makes for easy painting.

You can see more of my portraits HERE

Fire and Ice - figurative painting by debbie miller

6x6 oil.

All I can think of when I look at this is 'fire and ice' - hence the name. Love her fiery hair with that blue and white blouse. Hello, complimentary colors :)

This was a little quickie done after the longer portrait done at Monday nights open portrait painting session. click HERE to see the portrait I did first - which I LOVE.

AND check out some of the talented artists I paint with : (click on names) Rob Rey Devin Reilly Kate Huntington Kerry Smith

Hello Kitty - daily painting, portrait,figure

10x10 oil on panel.

After painting her portrait, there was still more time on the clock - about one hour - and I had an extra panel so I painted this.

Love the "Hello Kitty" shirt and wanted to paint more of her than just a headshot.

Much more free with this one and it was fun.

Go HERE to see the first portrait

Creamsicle - daily painting,cupcakes,floral

6x6" oil on panel. Often while painting a title or word will pop into my head and stay there. With this one - it is orange creamsicle - which are not my cup of tea- but the colors are. Last weekend I picked up this little bouquet at Trader Joes (for peanuts!) to brighten up the studio a bit. Its working.

Below is the latest from the open portrait group. I Love this group and painting from the model live so much that I would like to start my own group at my little studio -(on a different night of course!!) If you are an interested local - contact me!

Go over to my About Face blog to see more.

Scott - About Face, portrait project

10x10" oil on panel. fresh portrait from the open portrait studio that I go too.
It doesnt get much more fun than that.

In fact painting faces is so much fun that Ive decided to paint a whole bunch this year - as many as I can - at least 100, hopefully more *gasp*
each one on a 10x10 panel and then displayed together like a giant face quilt.

there is a button in the side bar to the blog I set up just for the portraits - check it out

Bangle - beach scenes, people at the beach

6x6" oil - had a marathon painting session at the beach - which is the best for several reasons, my favorite being seeing what develops towards the end.

-after painting a bunch of 'serious' landscapes, I started painting a few close up people studies. quick, fun and loose, not over thinking - in fact barely thinking about painting.

I love getting to that place.

Saba - monday portrait session

12x12" oil
Saba - a beautiful name for a beautiful girl. It means Cool Morning Breeze in Arabic. She was the model last night at our monday night portrait session - wish I had a photo of her too so you could see the likeness...what fun those eyes were to paint! but as for the spot I love? it would have to be her nose - loving that lighter brushstroke inbetween her eyes -yum

Mark Taber - portrait series

18x24" oil. back from my painting break - sometimes you just need to do other things to recharge the creative juices.

But nothing could be better for getting my painting groove back than hanging with a bunch of RISD alumni for a portrait session - which is what I did last night- and a GREAT model too.

Seriously this guy was FUN to paint. His name is Mark Taber and he is a local pianist here in RI - we were treated to a bit of his talent while setting up. Thank you Mark.

You can read about Mark HERE

Chris -portraits

14x18" oil. Chris - another portrait from my monday open painting group. First time ive had to tackle glasses and that was a challenge.
So fun painting people...

Molly - portraits,children

16x20" oil. Theres a great cast of characters that frequent Chez Miller and Molly has been a regular over the years. Love having another girl around especially one with such spunk!
Think this captures her spirit a bit. - thanks Mols!!

P#15 -Harry haircut -portraits

12x12" oil Sometimes you just knock one out of the park....

(I call him harry haircut because it always seems like he needs one)

P#12 - sweety -portraits,children

6x6" oil
a little sweety. more portrait practice

P#11 -Sophmore -portrait series

11x14 oil
getting somewhere. but need to do it again with more of the body showing and the hands in the pockets. fave so far :)

P#10 -Teddy -portraits,do what you love february

6x6" oil
heres a couple things you should know about this:
-Teddy is the artist of my bunch and also the big critic...so I had to work extra hard on this one
-the green background is 'bamboo' green of course
- my boys eyes - especially Teddy's -are very dark - to make them look 'right' I have to lighten them a bit
-the eye on the left is my favorite part
-weird photo of this painting - all that yellow/green is difficult to photograph - its better in person
-I am in for the crit of my life when school is over :)