Stacy Weitz Minch

7x5", water mixable oil on canvas board, 9/12/15 After my last try, I wanted to paint this little still life again. The lighting was different, and I tried to change my fundamental approach to painting the vase. Instead of delineating the vase with line, I first massed in the base value/color shapes I could see, and then added the little details later. I've always been really enchanted by glass that is painted well, and I'm determined to figure out how to do it. This might be one of my best attempts so far :)

8x6", water mixable oil on canvas board, 9/10/15 I started this painting yesterday, and decided I need to work on it more this morning. Glass is so tricky. I didn't capture it as well as I would have liked, but there's always tomorrow, right? Sometimes I wish I had more time in the day (who doesn't?), so I could really push my paintings a little further and get to a point where I felt they were more complete, more polished. But at the same time, I feel so lucky that I have the opportunity to have time to spend on art at all. I'm sure there are a million people in this world who could create better art than I ever could, but will never have the chance to try. It is a supreme blessing that I am able to do this at all. So I'm going to keep trying, doing my best to ignore that little voice that says, "you're never going to get anywhere doing this for an hour or less a day" and just keep trying. An hour a day does add up, and if I focus, I think...

7x5", water mixable oil on panel, 3/29/15 Click to bid or buy I love the name of these flowers--Stargazers. I grew up in Montana and one of my favorite things was to lay out in the grass or on the trampoline on summer nights and gaze up at the stars at night--it's harder to do that where I live now with all the light pollution. But just the thought that word "stargaze" makes me happy. And the way the light was reflecting through that vase--that made me happy too :)