Veronika Nagy’s Art Blog

I started this painting yesterday and I think it is finally finished.  This idea came from a friend - so thank you Roone! This is not a memory from my childhood, but I can definitely relate; I used to capture all types of things such as butterflies.  I really like the idea; fireflies are such fascinating creatures. And it was a nice challenge to create this lighting in a believable way.

I hope you enjoy “Captured Fireflies”

This painting is one of the first ones in this series and it isn’t among my favorites. If I were to paint this subject again, I would do a close up of the feet in the shoes instead of the full figure.

Tonight I was working on a painting I’m excited about, but it’s not quite finished yet. I will probably post it tomorrow. So please check back again.

This post is for yesterday- I was really tired last night.

“Flying a Kite”

I have all the paintings I have done so far, which is 28, laid out on my living room floor. Today’s post is the only the 19th on this blog because I started painting a week before creating this blog and there’s been a couple of days when I painted more than one piece.   I put them in order as best as I could from earliest to latest (amazingly enough I have a hard time remembering the order of the earliest work). Seeing them together and in chronological order, it is really evident that I have improved as a painter.  Over time, I have gotten better at working with this small size and square format as far as composition, but also I think I’m learning to paint faster and use the qualities of acrylic paints to my advantage, which in turn allows me to paint more intricate details.

Anyway, here is a photo of all 28 in order. Each column represents one week from top to bottom. Three more columns + one (22 paintings) to go! The ones that have not made it on the blog yet were either not my favorite choices or I feel they still need a little work. 

And for today’s post, I painted “Pinky Swear” suggested by my good friend Cristina. Thanks for the idea, Cristina!

When I entered the 50-50-50 art challenge and exhibit, I submitted a painting with a little girl blowing dandelion seeds as a sample. Originally I thought I would include that painting in my series of 50. However, I haven’t gotten it back from the gallery yet and I painted it on canvas paper, so it would have required me to go down to the gallery, pick it up and find a way to adhere it to one of the masonite boards in order to use it. So I decided to repaint it, include it in the collection and pick up the other painting later.

Here is the original dandelion painting called “Floating Dandelion Seeds”:

While painting this for the second time, I decided to change it a little bit - and I’m so glad I did. The addition of the field in the background gives it more depth and I think the painting took on a dreamy quality. This painting is one of my favorites in this series so far and I call it “Carried by the wind”: