The never ending painting rides again...

On December 17th I thought I had brought this work to a close, however this week I saw areas that I felt deserve improvement.  I think I spoke too soon.  With the help of my sketchbook drawings, I have developed the color, space and texture more throughout.  I am more satisfied with the work and feel it is a better painting today than it was a few days ago.


The thing is complete when you can let it be.  - Gita Bellin

Moving things along...

...with the guidance of my sketchbook drawings.

When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.

- Amedeo Modigliani 

Working out the details...

...of my current painting in some sketchbook drawings.

Even when you paint, you never stop drawing.

- Igor Babailov

A Minnie addition...

...while progressing the forms, textures and colors throughout the painting.

Our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

-Walt Disney

Another day, another mouse

A sketchbook drawing to work out the cold warm contrast pattern of the three mouse painting.

He who wishes to become a master of color must see, feel, and experience each individual color in its endless combinations with all other colors. 

-Johannes Itten

It's all about the application...

...of the paint.  Moving things forward, moving things along.

Don't stress over anything you can't change.

- Mickey Mouse

To laugh at yourself, is to love yourself.

-Mickey Mouse

A New Year, a new painting

No greater excitement than in starting a new painting.  Every mark full of the potential for a brilliant outcome.  Here is to striving to maintaining the carefree attitude of a painting's beginning throughout!

“Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.” 

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

The never ending painting:

I thought I would never finish this work this past year.  After leaving it for a couple of months, I returned to it today to finish it.  Is a painting ever finished?  Some would argue "No."  Perhaps ones day in the coming months I will add or change a few things that I thought should be different while photographing it this afternoon, however for today I will proclaim that it is done.  There are several posts on this blog in the months of June, July and August that feature this works progress.

The thing is complete when you can let it be.

- Gita Bellin