All Of The Tulips, 6x6 Inch Oil Painting by Kelley MacDonald

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The last of these gorgeous tulips.  Now I'm itching for other colored tulips.  I've never painted white ones, so there's that, but I do love the orange ones, and then the yellow ones always 'get to' me....  We'll see what looks good when I shop!

Happy Easter, Passover, whatever holiday you observe.  I'm going to try for an Easter without chocolate (I know, right?  What's the point - kidding!).    

Well, I'm thinking that the warmer weather will bring some fun plein air painting.  I'm going to do a 'Safari' again this Spring/Summer, where we go to a different location each week, with a demo, painting and then a supportive critique.  Also, if you are in the Boston/South Shore area and are interested in a one-day Plein Air Workshop, I'm thinking of putting one together.  email me at kcareymac@hotmail.com.  Again... FUN!

Also I have room for maybe one more person in my Saturday class, it's ongoing and there are some very cool people you would love to paint with in it!  10-1 at my Warren Studio.  Just email me to let me know you're coming.  It's week-to-week, $25 each.

Pussy Willow Shimmer, 6x6 Inch Acrylic Painting by Kelley MacDonald

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Loving my pussy willows still... and in this painting I decided to use a bright gold metallic paint for the background. I love the way the blueish pussy willows stand out against it.  Just exploring paint and shapes and design.

Saw sunshine today.  Took THREE walks.  Ahhhhhhhh... I am SO ready for Spring this year!

Pussy Willows, 6x6 Inch Acrylic Painting by Kelley MacDonald

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Pussy Willows are always a favorite of mine.  And though I FELT like painting daffodils today what I HAD was pussy willows!  I love them because they last, literally, for years.  And because they are soft, like little kitties!  And I know I told you this before, but when I was a child and we were not allowed to have pets in our apartment, I collected these, took them off the stems, named them, and took them everywhere with me.  They were the perfect pets, really. Never had to feed them, walk them, they were quiet and very amenable. 

Also, they bloom around the time of year that my Dad passed away.  So I think of him when I look at them.  

I loved layering the acrylics here.  I want to tell everyone that when you switch mediums, say from watercolor to oil, or to acrylic - give it a while so you get the hang of how they 'act'.  Don't dismiss them immediately.  I struggled to get acrylics to do what I want - for such a long time.  And even now every once in a while.  But then they'll do something wonderful and surprising that you hadn't expected, and there you go.  Your own little miracle.

I hope you all are getting a little Spring...

The Gift Of Tulips, 4x4 Inch Acrylic Painting by Kelley MacDonald

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I can't resist these tulips!  YES I have a list of paintings I'm working on or should be working on, but this little 4x4 inch panel just snuck up on my easel!  

We had snow yesterday, Thursday, but it was beautiful.  All the more beautiful, I think, because at this time of year we know it won't last!!!  

I'm doing the 21 Day Meditation with Oprah and Deepak... I'm not usually into them, but I tried the first one today (yeah, I have some catching up to do) and it was wonderful.  Anybody else have tears stream down their faces when they meditate?  It's just such a safe and loving place.... anyway.

ALSO - hey... maybe you're not an artist.  Maybe you have friends you like to spend time with. ?

I'm doing these Art Parties... on Thursdays, or by appt.  BYOB, we supply the art supplies and smiles for you.  You can book the whole night, or just COME ON BY.  First one is Martini Madness...  Next month:  April In Paris....

Spring In My Heart, 6x6 Inch Acrylic Painting by Kelley MacDonald

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I don't know about you, but when someone gives me flowers it's as if they are here, with me, as long as the flowers last.  My dear friend,  fellow Girls Just Wanna Paint artist, and all around fabulous artist Sally Dean Mello, gave me these gorgeous tulips, and I can HEAR her here with me, although she lives an hour away.  I was compelled to paint them.  As I was sketching it out, I got a text message - you guessed it, from Sally.  We had a lively conversation through the ENTIRE time I was painting, all via texts.  She had no idea that I was painting the gift she gave me, but it was very special to me that her spirit was with me, lifting, encouraging, making me laugh... 

Flowers are a wonderful gift. Friendships are a wonderful gift, too.

I wish you all an abundance of both...

Heat #1, 4x4 Inch Acrylic Painting by Kelley MacDonald

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I've been working on a series of smaller abstracts, 4x4 inches, in all warm colors on panels.  This is an iridescent   metallic gold with red, ochre, warm yellow and sunset orange.  I'm hoping that it 'calls' to the seasons and brings Spring here quicker!!!  I love this series because you can turn them in every direction and they 'work'.  they even 'work' next to one another, if they were framed together.  Small, but with a lot of punch.  I feel these color pushing up against each other, with hot red spilling out in the cracks, hot, hot, hot.

Evening Enchantment, 6x6 Inch Oil Painting by Kelley MacDonald

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A thousand times I could view it, and a thousand times I could paint it, and I would never, ever tire of the pink glow at sunset in Hull, MA.  Looking west with the peninsula tapering out off to the right, then into Boston Harbor, I am simply enchanted by the pinky orange glow that reflects on the wet sand of Nantasket Beach.  Every time I paint it I commit it more to heart.  I can always use a spot of sunset colors wherever I am and whatever time of day it is.

Some say only God can make a great sunset.  Some say after that only a photograph is worth it.  But I think back on the lovely glows captured by artists through time: Monet, Van Gogh, Fitz Hugh Lane, Emile Gruppe, Kevin MacPherson, etc. etc. etc.  I like painting, so I guess I like painted sunsets.  

Honey, I'm Home... 8x10 Inch Oil Painting by Kelley MacDonald

In Honor Of My Birthday Special:

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(8x10's normally are $300 unframed, so... )

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Another in a series, and the first step up from small to medium size.  I'm going to go bigger with these, I just love them.  I love the loosened tie, the 'tired' shirt after a long day... the whole 'Honey, I'm home!' attitude. When we were painting these the other day at class, someone said that this would look great in a man's dressing area, or his room, or bathroom.  I think so too!  I fortunately have a husband with lots of shirts and fabulous ties, so my 'models' await....

This is oil on panel, btw.

Into The Wave, 6x6 Inch Oil Painting by Kelley MacDonald

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I've been thinking of all the images I have that seem to have a common thread - I seem to be a big fan of kids at the beach, and so I'm trying to work up a series of larger pieces for this year's body of work.  This one, well, I just love (and admire) his exuberance!  I love watching people run headlong into the waves (my husband is this type).  I'm more the inch-by-inch type in the ocean.  I'd LIKE to be brave, but I worry - will I step on a shell?  A jellyfish?  Feel something 'icky' swim against my leg?  Is that seaweed?  What if there's a sharp drop?  etc.

Maybe I'm more of a pool swimmer, but I do love the ocean.  The sound of it, the smell of it, the endless waves.....

And I'm liking this tow-head's red swimsuit, too ;D

Wishes, 6x6 Inch Acrylic Painting by Kelley MacDonald

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Well, on my birthday (Thursday, the 14th) I kind of took it easy.  Had a nice breakfast with an artist friend in the studio, painted, shipped, had lunner (lunch and dinner mix) of Chinese food with my husband, and then painted, while cupcakes were being made for me at home.

I think the folks at Edible Arrangements probably are curious as to what type of fruit diet I am on, considering the prodigious amounts they delivered in multiples to my address.  Seriously, come on over, I've got a chocolate dipped pineapple flower with your name on it! :D

This little painting is looser than my 'normal' style, which I am working on.  It seems I've been getting tighter and tighter, and unless I want to go into photorealism (lovely, but not for me) I need to practice getting and staying loose.  We'll see how this works out.  I got this little bottle at my annual pilgrimage to the Brimfield fair.  Can't wait to see what colors they have this year!

Mints On Pink, 6x6 Inch Oil Painting by Kelley MacDonald

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I had the most fun in the studio today.  For some reason there was NOTHING else (well, housework, yeah, but that'll be there beyond death, you know?) to do today, so Paco and I slipped off to the studio. I worked on EIGHT paintings.  Paco chased a patch of sunlight, and could not understand why it kept moving, and he'd have to go find it again to take another nap (this is so very unlike him - so DOG-like, to sleep on the floor... I think it's his first nap on the floor EVER).

And then I am still determined to work on figures, and I am my own free model...

And I definitely see improvement - although isn't it funny how cross you look when you paint yourself!?!

Here's To You, 6x6 Inch Acrylic Painting by Kelley MacDonald

Just fooling around today, on this 2nd snow day of the week.. and thought I'd have some fun with my acrylic paints.  This has layers and layers of fun colors, and the green martini is a real Girls Night Out kind of drink!

I'm reaaaaallly getting sick of winter, the pretty snow has lost all it's appeal to me as I try to get my little pug to walk in belly-deep snow.... we both need a blast of sunshine!  Hope you and yours have been safe during this latest round of storms...

Did I tell you that I'm making my Saturday class more of an 'ongoing' thing, rather than 8 weeks here, 10 weeks there?  Yup.  $25 for the day - and you don't have to reserve a spot, but it's nice for me to know how many to set up for.  People bring snacks, and we have a break where we look at work we've done between classes, for critiques - or just to show.  Come on down! :)

10-1 Saturdays, 32 Cole Street, Warren, RI

New Mexico Memory, 6x6 Inch Acrylic Painting by Kelley MacDonald

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Ever been to Santa Fe?  It's a place I've been to twice, and each time I fall more in love with it.  "What about 'no ocean'?" my husband asks, knowing how I love the Atlantic.  Well, I'll tell you, there's something magical about the mountains in New Mexico, and that big, colorful sky.  This is from a moment in the early misty hours of dawn.  Looks like a day when anything could happen.  A day of promise ahead.  A dream could come true.... that's a good memory of anywhere, but New Mexico is where it comes from...

A Tale Of Two Me's

Kind of two sides to the same coin... but the bottom one (dark background) was done after looking in the mirror and then walking into the other room to my easel and painting from memory.  The top one I did in front of a mirror.  You know, when you feel like painting people, and are all alone - you are a model can always convince to 'sit' for you.  I look, actually, like a combo of the two of these.  The top one, done in acrylic, I like better, except for the Jay Leno - type jaw.  I give myself a little break for the bottom one, as I said, because I was working from MEMORY.  We did this exercise in my class at the Providence Art Club.  The students did an amazing job - I can't believe I forgot to photograph their work!

Seagulll II, 6x6 Inch Oil Painting by Kelley MacDonald

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I am really getting into these seagull paintings.  I love how they're just black, white and gray with yellow beaks, pinkish legs and a bright red dot on their bottom beak!

And they can be placid or crazy looking, like here.  It was fun painting the action shot.  Had a busy day in the studio today.  In order to put off making ONE phone call I worked on 8, count 'em, EIGHT paintings.  Finished 2.  Started one new one.  If this keeps up, making my goal for Spring/Summer inventory will be a snap!

I'm giving a talk at the North River Arts Society in Marshfield on Wednesday night.  The topic:  Blogging Your Art Successfully.  Come on over - I love to share info!

One Leg Up Sea Gull, 8x8 Inch Acrylic Painting by Kelley MacDonald

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I love the gulls.  I love photos of gulls, and paintings of gulls, particularly Jamie Wyeth's.

So, be advised, there will be many showing up here... in different formats, medium and style!

On a very fun note, I can say now, one of my cocktail paintings, of an Old Fashioned, (below) went to a 50th birthday party on Saturday.  Sounds like a feisty party in Louisiana - and was presented, I believe, on a 'party trolley'.  It was rushed there to be on time, and I can tell you I was thrilled to get the call from LA that "The Eagle has landed..." so I knew the Birthday Boy would get a painting of his favorite beverage.  How fun!

One For Me, One For You, 6x6 Inch Oil Painting by Kelley MacDonald

This painting is for the GirlsJustWannaPaint Challenge, whose topic this month is: Tropical.  It will hang in a show at Thayer Academy this Fall, I hope you visit my Challenge Blog, if you subscribe, you will get the email once a month about our different takes on various subjects.

I think this photo may be a little dark..... will repost tomorrow..

He Loves Me.... 6x12 Inch Oil Painting by Kelley MacDonald

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I haven't painted flowers in a while, and here in New England, we are encountering packets of seeds and bulbs at the market and hardware stores, and at flower shows, etc.  The seed magazines send us into a frenzy of anticipation!  So what is sweeter than a bunch of simple daisies in a blue glass bottle? (BTW, he DOES love you.....)

Chillaxin', 5x7 Inch Oil Painting by Kelley MacDonald

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Right about now.. the tail end of February, seems like a good time to escape New England.  This looks pretty good to me...  how about you?

So... if I close my eyes, I can almost feel the heat of the tropical sun, smell the sunscreen (remember we used to call it 'suntan lotion'?), hear the lapping of the water against the shore, feel the chill of the cool drink... some soft lively music in the distance.... ahhhhh....  take me away.....

Just One Bite, 6x6 Inch Oil Painting by Kelley MacDonald

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Well, here's the last of last week's jellies!  This was actually earlier than the other stack of 3 jellies, yes, before they were halfway devoured ;)

I have really been pulling out of the Winter Doldrums!  My classes, both at the Studio and at the Art Club, are chock full of fun, fabulous artists.  I have a zillion ideas for new paintings, and thanks to an artist friend, am VERY close to announcing a new, fun event at my studio.  Set aside a Thursday night or two and grab some good girlfriends, that's all I can say for now... but soon.

I guess just like writing, a cure for a painting block or an artistic block is to JUST KEEP PAINTING.  Because eventually things start seeming exciting again, and there's that swish in your step, or at least in your brush.  I even am tackling organizing the new space with less trepidation.  And it will make people who have recently purchased my paintings THRILLED to know I have finally, finally located the box with the packing tape, so I can put it on the ready-and-waiting boxes.  Feeling sheepish, but there you go, the tape was not exactly where I would have thought. BEHIND me now! :D

In The Pink, 6x6 Inch Oil Painting of a Donut by Kelley MacDonald

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Some days posting is easier than others.  I've been posting, as of this month, for SIX years!  Over a thousand posts over six years may not sound like much, but I think one thing you can say about me is I have grit. :)

In these 6 years I've had 3 computers (really 2 because do you count the one I spilled water on? - actually the CAT spilled water on it.  See... I was spending too much time typing on a keyboard and not enough time petting the cat...) 5 cameras (you have heard the saga of each one) and a lot of different ways to get the image of the painting on the blog.

Now I have an iPhone and take my photos on it.  Trouble and joy of it is I can edit (crop) the photos right ON THE PHONE.  But you realize how SMALL this image is?  I ended up bad-cropping this painting t-h-r-e-e times.  So when I tell my audience at my Blogging Talks (one coming up 1st week of March in Marshfield) that it takes me 5 minutes to post a blog - tonight is the exception to the rule.  It took forEVER.  Crop, email it to myself, re-crop, re-mail it... you get the gist.

Done boring you.  Have a bite of this Strawberry Donut.  I thought you might be getting sick of the jelly. 

Birthday Pug, 6x6 Oil Painting by Kelley MacDonald

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This week my little pal Paco turned 4.  FOUR years old!  Hard to believe, and oh, how time flies.  For such an alpha-pup, he has turned out to be almost mello - and sweeter than sweet.  Pugs are very intuitive, and they are so attached to their people that it's painful for them to be apart from their people.  So, lucky for both of us he can come to 'work' with me!  He's mostly very good.

And I have 5 more boxes unpacked in my studio.  95 more to go.  :)

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Another do-nutty kind of day!  I feel like I really let loose with the jelly bellies in these two open donuts.  When you first *ahem* 'tear' them open the jelly might sit in there, but as time goes by gravity pulls it out... not that in real life it would get that way too often!  

Sorting through the studio, coming upon old studies and paintings from a while ago, it's like a trip down memory lane.  But I try to not get too distracted, as Saturday is coming, and my students have been PROMISED a more put-away work space!

Many thanks to the patient people who purchased paintings during the move.  Everything is more or less located now, in terms of packing materials, and things are on their way to their new homes. :)

Double Decker Donuts, 6x6 Inch Oil Painting of Donuts by Kelley Macdonald

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Ahhhhhh.... donuts... it's going to be THAT kind of week, I think! :D

Been a long time...

Now For Something Completely Different

"Angels Watch Over Her"

6x6 inches

Well, it's about time I published the collage I did for my Girls Just Wanna Paint Challenge for January.  I was flummoxed over a collage, remembering my really bad attempts in high school.  So I took a painting I'd done a long time ago, and touched it up, and cut and tore some paper for it and voila!  

The studio move is over... and now just the sifting and more tossing out is ongoing!  I had a couple of new students in my Saturday Class (which is ongoing, and on a drop-in basis, just email me for info), and they were Angels themselves for putting up with the chaos. "I'll make everyone tea.... oh, wait, water boiling... where's the tea? Where are the cups? :)  It was better than this photo by the time class started, and will be MUCH better next week!

Snow Shadows, 6x6 Inch Acrylic Painting By Kelley MacDonald

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Ahhhh... my favorite part of winter - the shadows on the snow from the trees.  And lately.... we've had snow!  So much that I couldn't even think about trying to find a place to park at my studio, till today.  (So I'm not unpacked, really, at all)  I've been painting away, though, once we got our heat back, and this is a painting I'd been working on, actually, for a while.. the snow and the shadows have many, many layers of paint.  I like the abstract quality, with no actual tree in the painting... just the shadows.

And, well, it's Valentine's Day, (at least for another hour or so) and I want to wish you all a Happy one!  In my class at the Providence Art Club yesterday we worked, again, on values.  I introduced them to my friend Laurel Daniel and her work, and showed them one of her exercises on values, and they we all did them... after which, we painted our subject, keeping in mind that, as artist Peggi Kroll Roberts says "Value does all the work, and Color gets all the credit."  Check out these two wonderful artists!

And here was my demo, it is a 4x4 painting of pink martini's - email me if interested, it's $65

AND who should drop in on our class but....

this guy.  He was very nice, and apparently is a native Rhode Islander!

Little Gould Island, 6x8 Inches, Oil Painting by Kelley MacDonald

I did this on a linen pad, and you can see there are still staples on the right.  I just had the urge to paint the little island that greets me every morning, and despite my husband's feelings that "nobody wants to see a painting of that island", I felt the need to paint it.  And an hour after I painted it, the sky became steely dark and the water was light gray and it started to rain, giving it a  whole new look.  I just may do some studies of this, for me.  

The practice of doing a whole, if small, painting every day is what the whole Daily Painters movement is all about - it's good exercise for your artist's mind.

Funny thing, I may have told you, the land mass in the back of the little island is Aquidneck Island, where Newport is, (further down).  On the other side of Aquidneck is another little island, also named Gould.  Those Goulds must have been something, to get TWO islands named after them!  Or, was it a case of the left side of Aquidneck not knowing what the right side was doing?

:)

Burro, 6x6 Inch Oil Painting by Kelley MacDonald

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It's been almost two weeks since I posted.  Have I been painting?  SURE!  But there have been 3 bouts (yes, 3 different viruses!) of sickness, a couple of sad events in the family AND I moved out of one studio and into another.  Oh... and a blizzard.  Where we were living in a house with no fireplace or gas heat or stove, and the temps hovered somewhere below 40 for a couple of days.  

But just before the storm, in the midst of the crazy piles in the new studio, I pulled out this image of a burro in a field, and found my paints... and was blissful.  I forgot about the cartloads of kleenex and soup, the sadnesses and everything else, and painted with abandon.  I love burros.  And mules.  And equines of all stripe.  I think I should paint them more.  But for now... here's my little burrow.  I hope he makes you smile!

Cosmopolitan, 6x6 Inch Oil Painting by Kelley MacDonald

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Well, this weekend I fell down on the job and missed 'our' cocktail.  So today I thought I'd sneak one to you.  I have a strong preference for Cosmo's.  they must be pale, pale, pale - it's NOT a Cape Codder, for Pete's sake!  It must have a nice piece of citrus - lemon or lime (I like them both), you must use a good quality vodka (at least Absolute quality) and Cointreau, not Triple Sec.  Shake, pour into chilled martini glasses - aaaahhhhhhhhh.  

I see that my cropping failed a bit here - on the left side there is that dark edge that I need to crop out, apologies.

I am busily painting as well as packing up my studio, and will catch up on my two still short in my 30 Paintings in 30 Days!!!  Going to do it!!!!~

Tomorrow... another pug!

Red Scarf Pug, 6x6 Inch Oil Painting by Kelley MacDonald

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Oh.  Yes I've been very bad.  Between work, teaching and being sick last week, I ended up TWO short in my 30x30 paintings!  So I did the value study painting below, yesterday, and it's COUNTING, and today I did the pug above.  This is my pug, who will not wear clothing for dogs.  Apparently my husband's scarf is acceptable.  Don't tell my husband I wrap the dog in his scarf, OK?  

I'm exceptionally happy with this painting, because it's more than a pug, it's a painting.  Do  you know what I mean?  Even if you squint and sort of lose the whole dog-thing, I like the shapes, the color, the paint application. OK, done patting myself on the back.  Sometimes it seems like you just can't do anything, and sometimes it's just.... yeah.  

Hopefully I'll be able to post 2 tomorrow as well, but I'm moving my studio, so... who knows.  Wish me well! xoxo

Pug Time, 5x7 Oil Painting by Kelley MacDonald

This is a very sweet little pug.  I can't remember who sent me this photo!  People have been so generous about sending images... well, she/he was a good 'model'.  I was aiming for looseness.  I can't tell, it being kind of late here, if the image is not the clearest.  If that is the case, I will swap it out for a sharper one tomorrow.  

This is the kind of day it was here:  street flooded with a broken water main, turning the driveway/yard and entire street into a frozen river; treated myself to a big cup of coffee, only to watch it slip out of my gloved hand on the way in to the studio as it bounced, intact, down 5 steps, rolled onto a carpet mat, and slowly (well, not really) the lid opened, dumping my entire coffee in a huge puddle on a clean carpet;  got my car swiped in the parking lot while I was teaching... and did I mention it was 16 degrees at it's warmest today, without factoring the wind chill?

But I had a great class (I love their energy, enthusiasm and seriousness~!).  Paco came to class today at the Art Club and was (mostly) quiet and well behaved, and the President of the club said he was always welcome, and when I got home my son and husband were wonderful, treating me to pizza that I did not have to make. :)  Life IS good.

PepperPepperPeppermints, 6x6 Inch Oil Painting by Kelley MacDonald

Another one for the James Library Valentine 'Sweets' show.  I seem to never get tired of painting candies.  Particularly with cellophane wrappers!  OK, I didn't paint this today.  Gave myself a day to recover, seeing as the two paintings I tried were severely lacking!

Take care in this cold!!

Down For The Count

No real painting from me today - I've got the stomach bug and it has completely sapped me.  So this was done on my iPad, as my little friend snuggled next to me and 'consoled' me.  Hopefully tomorrow will be an easel day....

Brrrrrr...Pug! 6x6 Inch Oil Painting by Kelley MacDonald

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This is my Paco, last year on a walk in the snow.  Now... don't be all "Shouldn't he have a jacket?  Shouldn't he have little Pug boots?"  because I've spent a LOT of money, even having a custom made coat made for him, and he'll have none of it!  He does like a quick walk if the wind is damp and cold and howling, but as long as he gets a good snuggle when he comes in, (and he does) he's happier au natural!

I painted this, then had fun flinging the big 'flakes' of snow.  The texture was fun ;)

Scotch, I Mean Butterscotch, 6x6 Inch Oil Painting by Kelley MacDonald

These little sweeties are going to be in the Valentine show at the James Library in Norwell, MA.  I'll have 4 candy paintings and hopefully they'll make someone's sweet tooth smile!

I did this as a demo for my Saturday Class, which is fun in very many ways, and will be a mix of people who can commit to the 8 weeks, and those who can't and just drop in.  We're going over the basics, which everybody can benefit from, right, from time to time?

Today was "Composition Day" and we talked about things to avoid, and had, I thought, a simple subject - candies.  What I hadn't thought about was 1) my students are artists in other mediums and were thinking about values, edges, color, etc. etc.... ACK!  I thought candies were just shapes.. but they also had cellophane, and at least 2 levels of highlights...  Well, they did just great, even with all those other concerns!  Happy, happy day.

Old Fashioned, 6c6 Inch Oil Painting by Kelley MacDonald

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It may be a little early in the day for this, but bear with me!  As you know, on the weekends I am taking a break from painting Pugs, (to keep it interesting and fresh for me) and painting cocktails and candy.  Last week's cocktail painting sold quickly and I had a couple of requests for the same drink - a Whiskey Old Fashioned.  So here... cheers!  And save me the cherry and the orange!  

The photo came out a little darker than real life. The painting is a bit brighter IRL.

Today.. come on by my studio where we're painting from 10-1.  I'm going to offer it either way - as a one-time payment for 8 classes, or as a 'drop in.  Your choice.  I'll BE THERE!

Sleeping In, 5x7 Inches Oil Painting by Kelley Macdonald

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The story:  One warm Summer morning I woke up to a pink and aqua world, and though it was just almost dawn, I got up, made some tea and headed to the front porch to watch the world light up.  Of course Paco could not let me be by myself, but MY GOODNESS it was early.  Way too early. So he begged for me to hold him in my lap, which I did. And Paco relaxed in my arm (you can see it here supporting him as he dozed in the crook of my arm).   

So he's not an early riser.  He has other qualities.  I could just kiss that little wrinkly chin!  I ought to tell everyone that this is just the 3rd time I've painted Paco this month.  I know everyone thinks a lot of these pugs are my own dog, but they are not!  I would never dress him up - he's not that kind of dog.  :D

We are past the halfway point in our 30 Paintings in 30 Days.

Also.... anyone who wants to come to the Saturday Painting Class (10 a.m. in Warren) - even as a drop-in... come on over.  32 Cole Street in Warren.  You can pay as you go.  No worries.  I'd rather you painted than not!