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30x30 oil on panel

nfs Sometimes you just have to do what you love - what speaks to you, what moves you - actually when it comes to painting it should be what you do all the time - it is easy to get off track, to worry about what everyone thinks, to try and please everyone.
 This has been the monster I've been fighting for a while now.
  Until now, until I got back in the studio and just painted - for ME, for the love of painting, for the escape, for the meditation, for THE FUN OF IT. 
TAH_DAH!  painting is fun again and I've got a secret I'll share with you soon about this painting and some of her friends.  stay tuned

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

P#6 -Old Hat and Glasses - portrait,do what you love february

6x6" oil

Work In Progress - figurative,oil

12x16 oil on canvas.
Its been a while since Ive painted and must admit a bit of a struggle to get inspired. Those teeny tiny little boards just dont appeal to me right now. But today is a 'painting' day so SOMETHING has to get painted. - and not my basement stairway which is really crying out for a fresh coat...SO after gesso-ing and basecoating all the naked boards lying around, I decided to go back to my roots a bit, back to basics and just paint. Starting with a nice orange ground and washing in an umber underpainting...

then started in on the flesh...some say you should work on everything equally, but thats never been something I could do...love to just dive in to the 'good' parts...this is where I'm at now and ready to take a break. loving how the paint is thin and drippy at the bottom

Beach Flip - daily painting,beach scene

16x16 oil on panel

Warmth and Save the Date

6x6" oil on gessobord

sitting here in my turtleneck and fleece just thinking about that summer warmth

and just in case you didnt get the email: Save the Date-

Friday, December 19th, 7-10PM Friends & Collectors Evening Nami Gallery & Studios 30 Cutler St #205, Warren RI401-474-0339 Artists Maeve Donohue, David Gonville and Debbie Miller invite you to a celebration reception with hors d'oeuvres, libations and of course, new art!

In addition to our paintings we are unveiling our new gallery space, prints, cards and oil sketches, offering our friends and collectors a chance to buy original art this holiday season with prices starting at 25 dollars. If you would like an invitation mailed to you, please send us your mailing address.For more information visit our website: http://namigallery.blogspot.com/

Warm regards,Nami Gallery

The Miracle Suit

The Miracle Suit
6x6" oil on masonite panel
If there are 'rules' for painting, one of has to be 'paint what you know'. Well, as a 41 yr. old mother of 3...I'm familiar with the Miracle Suit ;-)