I had a real hard time with this one.

Looks like a postcard scene!

I put a little bit more trust in myself with this one and let my artist eye lead the way.

I’m starting to get a better grasp at foreground/background work.

I was afraid I was going to be bored with this one because it’s just black and white, but honestly, I think I needed this exercise.

For New Year’s Eve, I decided to have a cozy night in and paint with Bob.

I’m back to acrylics on this one, and this one was tough!

I switched to oils and I HATTTTEEEE it.

I’m so proud of myself for finishing up the first season!

Here is the last episode of the first season! I can’t believe I’ve done 12 paintings already!

I am in LOVE with how this one turned out. With this one, I decided to go in more on the white paint and a little less on the tints.

2 in one day?! I feel so addicted to these little paintings now!

I was so excited to make a beach painting that I totally just blew through Bob’s instructions because I wanted DRAMA.

After last episode’s painting I realized I really need to focus on not spending TOO much time on the blended background.

Agh, I think I lost my way a bit with this one. At first I was feeling pretty good with the atmospheric mountains in the background but then I got too heavy-handed with the foreground and my impressionistic side just took over after that.

When I saw this was ANOTHER winter scene, I audibly groaned.

The challenge with this one: INTENTION. I realized that since the acrylics are a different medium than the oil paints, I had to seriously back away from doing the step-by-step.

Blah. Maybe it was just my lack of excitement when I saw that I would be painting a winter snowy scene, but this one was definitely not my favorite.

Moving along to the ‘black canvas’ edition. Bob is working with black as his background so I had to make a first wash with black, crimson, and yellow gradient as my first layer on the canvas with acrylics and then work from there.

Day 2! I spent a bit longer on this one and paused the video multiple times just to get lost in doing my own thing for a while. This one was challenging but I tried to really pay attention more with what I was doing with those acrylics