[Molly Dodd]

Thanks Paul! Once my daughter’s a little older I really want to get out plain air painting! It may have to wait for next summer, though – I’m trying to at least get my skills up a bit before then

[Molly Dodd]

Days 4 and 5: This one is about an abandoned pet rabbit we rescued at a park and some wetlands we visited a couple weeks ago. Even if I could set up an easel, I don’t think I would be up to plain air with the bugs

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[Molly Dodd]

Day 3: I was tired and wanted something cheering and not too complicated. Migrating pelicans.

[Molly Dodd]

Thank you Bryan!

Ilya, thank you so much for the suggestions! I’ll look up the Venetian masters this week – I don’t recall their work.

Day 2: My husband saw that I was painting, and asked for a Father’s Day painting based on some photos he took of taking our daughter out to see streams and waterfalls. While I have done figure drawing a bit, figure painting, especially at small scale, is very much outside my comfort zone. Also, no time to watch videos or research today.

But anyway, water soluble oils on a 5×7 panel. Other than the figure, the main thing I’d like to learn to communicate better if the pool of water. Water that flows through tamarack swamps takes on a clear deep brown that’s different from mud. It’s dark red brown in deep places, and a kind of bright gold in shallows in the light. I didn’t capture it so well here, but would like to in future.

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