DJ Geribo

I'm moving right along on my tiger painting, really enjoying the large scale work. I didn't realize I would enjoy this so much. For the longest time I just avoided large scale and would continue to return to the security of my miniature paintings. In 2009 I started an 18"x36" which was the largest painting I had ever painted. I finally finished, but it took several months. I didn't have my David Sorg easel then so it wasn't easy working on it using my Julian Sketchbox easel. Some of it I actually just leaned the canvas up against a wall and sat on the floor to paint.

For a couple of weeks after I received my new David Sorg easel, a 30x40 canvas sat on the easel untouched, still so pure and white. I was so involved in finishing up my new website that I couldn't get to it. But now, it has paint on it! Yeah! And as you can see, it is starting to look like the Bengal Tiger. Surprising to me was how unintimidating the size was. Since I paint a lot of 2"x2", 3"x4", and 5"x7" sizes, I thought for sure that the 30"x40" size would overwhelm me. But it doesn't at all, as a matter of fact, I feel like I could paint bigger! That's a relief since I bought a box of 6 - 30x40 canvases and have 5 more to paint.
 

This week I watched a movie that I heard about on Robert Genn's Painters Post. I'm always looking for movies about artists and this one sounded like a good story. Here is my quick review....

June - Discover Portsmouth Center, Portsmouth, NH

Great Bay Art Association Award Show

Since I divide my time between painting fine art and building my business, Eye Help Animals, LLC, with my husband, Jim, I've decided to focus more on the animals we are helping to save through Eye Help Animals. My current project is painting large scale animal paintings and since 2010 is the Year of the Tiger, and the Bengal Tiger eye was the first animal eye that I painted, a Bengal Tiger will be my first 30x40 painting. Of course, this project coincides with my recent purchase of a David Sorg studio easel.  I have not attempted to paint anything larger than an 18x36 on my sketchbox easel, and even that was awkward enough. But now I can paint on almost any sized canvas I can imagine.