2) Picking Up the Brush again

Ok…picking up the brush again after 6 months "leave"... This past summer, it began to appear on our radar screen that our family may be in store for some kind of shift, in location that is, perhaps as soon as in the summer of this next year, 2012. My thoughts were, ‘Perhaps, I won’t be able to take many of my paintings with me, at least all at one time…This must be why I had been led to

go “small” (as in jewelry art) so that I can tuck them easily into my suitcase !’ Yet, the desire to squeeze tubes of rich colored medium onto my palette, scoop it up with my bristle brush and push that wonderful viscous oil around on the canvas again has been too strong lately…And as I looked around my studio at the untouched collection of white canvases (still in wrappings) just beckoning me to free them and give them some color and purpose…I couldn’t resist their longing blank “stares” anymore…lol... Fast forward…This month, my husband took my youngest son, Benjamin, on a 20 day ministry trip to Germany, and my time opened up to return to oil painting…I set a goal to complete the ten - 6x6x1.5 stretched canvases, to recreate some of the 24x24inch “End-time Harvest” series paintings in smaller scale, as well as to give some oldies new life…So by this Friday, with a few exceptions, I completed these new landscape oil paintings : short-term mission accomplished ! However, the next step was the least “palette-able” part of the process of making art : to prep the little happy canvas faces into a digital format for viewing beyond studio walls…Taking outdoor photo shots from various angles of 12 + paintings, was grueling, since my first attempt did not produce accurate color matches…So back to the photo shoot, with indoor lighting in my studio, and then again into PhotoShop for hours of comparing digital to actual colors, sizing in a web format, and uploading them. Thankfully, they are finally up in my ETSY shop : http://www.etsy.com/shop/LisaMDSkinnerArt