Photo of a plein air set up near a small river with trees and a bridge in the background.
Painting in between rain showers today 🥶
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Oil painting of a motor cycle in an alley way with cherry blossoms overhead.
My first Quick Draw event at the Marietta Cherry Blossom Festival today. 2.5 hours to complete a painting in the middle of a busy street festival…it was STRESSFUL but also super fun. 9 more days of painting in the River Towns Plein Air. Let’s go!
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Oil painting of a dog looking under a fence.
Work in progress. Oil on cradled wood, 8x10.
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These are lovely! I just switched from a 50/50 mix of linseed oil and Gamsol to Sennelier’s Green for Oil. Similar drying time and flow plus it’s non-toxic. Very happy so far.
Thank you 😊
Close up on an oil painting showing a chicken head in blue.
Close-up of the newest chicken painting.
More detail and process photos are now up on my website: www.kellycottingham.com/blog
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Oil painting of a chicken in blue tones with a distinct cast shadow on a yellow background.
Chicken #2.
Oil on cradled wood, 11x14.
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Oil painting of a barn with silo.
Detail shot of oil painting. A tractor inside a barn.
Oil painting detail of barn and silo.
Completed painting with some detail shots. Process photos on my website.
8x10, oil on cradled wood.
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Oil painting of an old white barn with silo and a tractor inside.
New painting. Maybe finished? Tbd.
Oil on cradled wood. 8x10.
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Painting of a tree leaning into the water at the edge of a lake. It’s spring and there are some orangey pink buds on the tree.
Finished plein air. I’m trying to choose complex subjects to paint quickly on small canvases. It’s a good exercise in simplification.
This is 5x7 and painted in about an hour and a half. Oil on canvas.
Photo of a small plein air set-up on a picnic table with a tree and lake in background.
A little after-work plein air session. Feels like spring.
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Oil painting in progress of a black and white chicken with a fluffy head on a yellow background.
Work in progress. I could paint chickens all day.
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Oil painting of a chicken with a small head.
Detail shot of painting.
Detail shot of painting.
Finished painting plus some close-up shots.
11x14 oil on cradled wood
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Oil painting of a chicken with a small head.
Work in progress.
Oil on cradled wood. 11x14.
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At a local frame shop. I was having trouble finding a good selection of that size online but the shop had plenty ready-made…I guess scraps from the bigger custom jobs get repurposed into tiny frames.
Found a tiny frame for this tiny painting.
4x5 oil on canvas
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Fantastic!
Oil painting of a chicken walking.
Chicken sketch in oil on paper.
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Beautiful.
I applied the paint with brushes and then used a brayer to soften edges and move paint around. The brayer also lifted the paint in places revealing bits of the underpainting which I thought looked kinda cool.
Oil painting of a still life set up including apples in a bowl with some fabric in the background and a cutting board.
Still life with apples. Experimenting with my mark making. I pulled out the roller many times. Ready to move on to the next one so I’m calling it done.
Oil on canvas. 11x14.
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Oil painting of a still life of apples in a bowl in progress.
Constructing and deconstructing. Work in progress.
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Beginning stages of an oil painting of a still life of a bowl of apples on a backdrop of an orange tray with a white napkin.
A new still life in progress.
Oil on canvas.
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Thank you! Trying to let the paint look like paint.
Thank you! The think the irony of the looseness is that it forces me to paint in a slower, more calculated way.
Oil painting still life of a grouping of art supplies - paint brushes in vase, canvases, paper towels, paint tubes.
Finished still life.
Oil on canvas. 11x14.
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Oil painting of a felt horse that is green with an orange mane on a gray-blue background.
Quick-ish sketch of this sweet little felt toy from the 60s that someone gifted me.
Oil on canvas. 5x7.
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Oil painting detail of a purple vase holding paint brushes.
Another close-up.
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Close! Gamblin yellow ochre.
Detail shot of an oil painting showing a paint tube and metal canister.
Close-up.
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