Hello surfer prints!! and HOLIDAY DISCOUNT on ETSY SHOP ;)

Another beautiful sunny and very warm day here in Ocean Beach, loving every second of it!!
Before lunch I walked with Mona to pick up my surfers prints :) and here they are:

The images are all 6x6 inches printed one by one on a nice thick sheet of paper 8x10 inches.

I tried with red and black ink, also i mixed the print with a bit of collage and finally I tried on a piece of music sheet :)

 In my Etsy shop you will find the black and white print :

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Walk after the rain ----work in progress----

I took a day for myself today, the main activities of the day have been running, painting and running.
I LOVE days like this :) I wish I had  more of those :)
Of course there was a bit of cleaning and food shopping but they did not sopil the good mood :)

 18x24 inches

work in progress

This is how the painting is coming along, I am pretty happy with the progress, still a lot of work is needed but I feel I am going in the right direction, I really like the greens I got.
Tomorrow will be a all dedicated to school homework, there is a tough assignment ahead ... hopefully I ll be painting again on Friday ;) ( finger crossed!!)
Have a nice evening everyone!
Hubby and me are off to a sushi night ;)

Homework :) Landscapes with gouache

I spent the whole weekend painting small hilly landscape, the same kind of landscape using different colors scheme.

Starting from a value rough just in black to more colorful rough some with more saturated colors other more muted... 

It was a good exercise!:)

All the paintings are 5x7 inches, gouache on paper.

A walk after the rain, work in progress

Another amazing day... blues sky, the ocean is glowing in front of me, tons of people are walking down to the beach and I am painting inside, something is wrong!:)
I am sure that I would be much more productive with clouds and fog outside...
Yesterday I was planning to walk to the print store to pick up my prints but in the end we ended up going to yoga, I will go tomorrow, or new week.
Today I am posting my work in progress on a quite large canvas board, a study for an even larger painting...let's see how this is coming out first though ;)

18x24 inches

This is the under painting from a picture I took last week, one afternoon after the rain. ( you can also see our building, is the taller blue building in the far distance)

After taking this picture I walked by the old man with the dog and I showed him his picture, he was actually really old and a bit deaf I think, he didnt really understand WHY I took a picture of him, but he was smiling ...though I guess he was happy :)

Looking forward to start painting tomorrow!

Print making ...part 1 :)

Here are the pictures from my 2days printmaking workshop, a really cool technique :)

Step 1:
I choose to work on a picture I took last week while crossing the street next to our house:

Step 2:
Drawing the two surfer dudes on paper on reverse ( cutting out the background for now)

Step 3:
 the booooooring part: cutting ! To do my 6x6 inches images it took me circa 3 hours of work...

Step 4:
the fun part: putting ink on my linoleum 6x6 inches plate

and this was the first print!!!
I LOVE IT!:)

6x6 inches 

Original Ink Print on paper

I did more between 10/15 print with different styles and colors, they are still in the studio drying, looking forward to pick them up and post them here .

Shortly I will post the best prints on my Etsy shop :)

Enjoy it!

Waiting for the wave

Gouache on paper

Waiting for the wave

While running on the beach a couple of days ago I took a picture of this surfer waiting to go into the water...this a sketch with gouache for a possible future painting. 

Down the original picture:

Busy painting landscapes for school today and this evening I have my last print making class, looking forward to show the pictures of my work tomorrow ;)

Have a good day everyone!

Beautiful as always here :)

Going home after surfing

11x14 inches

oil on canvas board

"Going home after surfing

Another day, another surfer :)

The picture of this surfer going home was taken at the end of the beach, the green in the back is the Balboa Natural Park. The sun is setting and the fog is arriving 

Here is a detail :

This and other paintings are available in my Etsy shop:)

Just click on the right top corner !