I watched the joy of painting every weekend on PBS, but I never believed I could paint something worth sharing. This is the first painting I’ve ever felt was “shareable” so I’m sharing despite being scared.
Art is funny that way, I think all art I see is so good and evocative in its own way, but it’s hard to share my own.

Hope you enjoy. Here’s to the happy trees & waves and squirrels and all the other little creatures that inspire us to be creative.

I would like to find the full image of the original painting, so that I can do a study on it!

Edit: I found a very close one, it’s called Tranquility Cove - season 31, episode 4

Reworked this one a little. Acrylic paint on 8x10 inch stretched canvas.

Painting I did recently that brings back great memories.

This took me so freaking long haha. I’m cranky and my back hurts, I forgot to sign it but I’ll do it tomorrow. Enjoy!

This took way too long…

90x70 oil painting

12x16 painting I did today.

As the title says, I’ve been experiencing a lot of difficulty when doing things like highlights on bushes, I cannot get paint to stick on top of base color that I’ve already put down.

I know that the golden rule is “a thin paint sticks to a thick paint” but it seems like even when I thin the paint down it does not stick cleanly to the layer beneath it. It just waters that layer down as well and mixes. It makes it muddy.

Additionally, my brush is constantly picking up the base layer of paint, so as soon as I dab one highlight on, the brush is filthy and the highlight color is all messed up. When I watch Joy painting, it seems like he can constantly use the same brush for highlights all over the place and it doesn’t pick up any of the base color. Similarly it seems like he can blend all over the place without picking up any color on his brush.

Any techniques or tips for this?

Also semi related, semi not, but I feel like I generally have difficulty getting all of the paint off of my brushes in the first place, even when soaking in paint thinner