This theme was requested by Jason. Just like many American boys, baseball was an important part of his childhood. For this painting, I set the glove, balls and shoes in front of me and painted from life. I really like painting from life when it is possible. It tends to be more difficult than working from photographs but the results are more lively which makes it worth the effort.
Here are my paintings for yesterday and today. I hope you like them 
Only 8 more to go- yay!
Since I started this series, everyone has been sharing their children photos with me. This painting is based on a photograph provided by Beth of her son. Thank you Beth! It is a great photograph and I’m very happy with the way the painting turned out as well.
I was planning on titling this piece “the sand castle”, but I’m not sure what she’s building, it does not look like a castle. Once again in this painting I used some texture. I enjoy the process of exploration in creating texture. This time I used an Extra Heavy Gel/ Molding Paste, which I mixed in with my paint to build it up. Then I used a brush to create the texture as it was beginning to dry.
The above is a scanned image and unfortunately the texture does not look accurate. It’s almost as if the scanner inverted it making it look like indentations instead of the dimensional quality it has in person. I took a quick photo; the lighting is not good, but it will give you an better idea of what the texture actually looks like.
And a close-up:
I used to love swimming underwater when I was younger. Actually, I still do. It’s so beautiful the way light shines and reflects under water.
Unfortunately, the colors don’t come through quite as vibrant as the original, so imagine the colors brighter.
