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January 1, 2017April 25, 2018

Showing Up Matters Most

October 25, 2016January 10, 2018

Doing What Matters

October 21, 2016January 11, 2018

Peeling Away the Layers with Practice

October 18, 2016April 25, 2018

A Painting is the Sum of a Lot of Decisions

October 12, 2016

On Finding Personal Style

September 29, 2016September 29, 2016

Trees and Sky

September 27, 2016January 8, 2018

Notes to Myself

May 19, 2016May 19, 2016

Do It Daily, Do It Deliberately and Improve Dramatically

May 18, 2016May 18, 2016

It’s Never too Late to Begin Again

May 8, 2016January 11, 2018

Playbook Strategy # 1 for Creatives: Don’t Confuse Can’t with Won’t

April 10, 2016April 10, 2016

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What a difference a day can make. Today is Day 4 of a 5 day painting challenge I'm participating in. The goal is to do a quick painting every day. These are paintings from day 4 (light clouds) and day 3 after 60 minutes of painting (I set a timer). The initial drawing and mixing paint colors is not included in the time. The day 3 painting is fairly awful. Just being honest. But I like the scene a lot and I knew it could be better, so I decided to do it again, using what I learned from day 3. The day 4 painting comes much closer to what I wanted to achieve. It's a work in progress and I hope to finish it tomorrow. #5daychallenge #artworklivingchallenge2020 #oilpainting #minnesotaartist #womensupportingwomen #womanartist #stayathome #allaprimapainting #smallpaintings
Day 2 Boundary Waters (WIP) #artworklivingchallenge #6x8 #oilpainting #minnesotaartist
Painting through my artist-in-residence retreat time by participating in #artworklivingchallenge 5-day challenge. Day 1 - 45 minutes #stayathome #womenartistswednesday #womensupportingwomen #womenartistsofinstagram #allaprimapainting #allaprimapochade
This is a detail from a commissioned painting I did last summer. Painting is like writing a story. Writers use sentences, paragraphs, word choices, and punctuation to convey meaning. Painters use light and shadow, color and color values, shapes and size relationships to convey meaning. A painting can tell a story, too. Both artists and writers have to decide what to include or leave out of their work and how to organize the elements that make up the story. If an author goes on and on about every little person, place, or thing, most readers get bored. The best stories have just enough of the right elements and nothing more. The best paintings, in my opinion, include only what is essential to tell the story. Visual editing isn't always easy to do. I see too much detail. Seeing what is essential can be learned, though, by practicing (yes, just as writing is improved). . #collectinglight #landscapepainting #landscapeartist #mnartist #pleinairpainting #paintingcommission #pleinairpainter #representationalart #artistsoninstagram #artistslife #sharonleah #sharonleahart
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