Red Bucket - 1. Debbie Miller daily painting, beach scene

6x6" oil on panel $100

Oh Hello.  Remember me?
So, back in the studio with regular hours - hooray!!  It is all about time in the studio - my paintings are just not going to paint themselves no matter how I try.

There is a little stack of panels with black gesso just hanging around so this week that is the go-to surface.
The subject - people on the beach - of course. 
BUT Ive got the itch to paint bigger more abstract paintings - its really all I want to paint right now and I am even thinking about using acrylics *gasp!*  I know?  crazy talk right??

Which brings me back to the stash of little black panels - these I will paint a quick little painting to play with composition and to get a feel for the image - a sketch with paint. Not quite as realistic as I used to paint but not all crazy like the paintings in my head.
They will be up for sale through my daily painters page (or email me) and then I'll post the bigger paintings that the little ones inspire.  Fun right?

So here is little painting #1 - and fair warning I've got a thing for buckets 

John Butler "Ocean" Rothbury 7-4-09

Good Morning.
It's a new year.  Back to work.

The Beach - beach scene, daily painting,Debbie Miller

 12x24" oil on canvas.
below is a closeup of last weeks portrait of singer Tish Adams - listen to her HERE and see the rest of the portrait HERE

Beach Girls - beach painting,playing,blue,ocean,coast

6x6 " oil on cradeled panel.
black sides - ready to hang. 
this time I painted in much the same way as I approach a portrait.  - used a burnt sienna ground, then using a fairly big brush sketched out the composition, adding a little umber to the shadows/darks and wiping the ground away where I want the lightest lights to be.
happy with the feel of this one

On the Horizon,Debbie Miller, Beach Scene,children

6x6" oil

towel #2 -beach towel series

18x18 oil on wood panel
loving painting big!

Warrens Point -plein air

6x6" oil

Great Island - plein air

12x12 oil. Great Island, Wellfleet Mass -

this is a plein air that I did last week while on the Cape Cod....

busy working on my big towel series and building a pond in the backyard....also inspired by my visit to the Outer Cape and the gorgeous garden of the lovely Claudia that we stumbled upon......dont you just love creative inspiration!!

- pictures of both to come

At the Coast - encaustic

12x12 - encustic,oil - At the Coast.
layers of oil and wax - love doing these. this one may be going out to a new gallery, still deciding...still rainy here on the east coast!!

Fishy Vibe - encaustic

12 x12" encaustic,oil,collage on supported birch panel $300.
Another from the bubble/encaustic series. So different from my usual work and a nice break...

Dreaming of Summer

6x6" oil on masonite

Lazy Days: daily painting, beach scenes

6x6" oil on masonite SOLD
Happy Chanukah

Reflecting

6x6" oil on masonite

I paint this alot - people -actually girls mostly- staring out at the ocean. While painting, I was thinking about that and decided that I'm drawn to this kind of image because 1. its familiar, 2. when creating you tap into your 'inner child' - well at least you should, in my opinion- so in a way I am painting myself. Does that make any sense? dont know. but the artist I am now is in many ways the child I was. and 3. just dang fun to paint :-)

So I guess take a second to reflect on yourself as a kid, what did you like to do? Do you do any of those things anymore? You should...take yourself on a playdate.

In the Surf: daily painting, beach scene

6x6" oil on masonite sold
These little beach scenes are becoming my favorites. One of these days, I'll paint a few really big ones