906 Seabreeze Lane, Day 9, 30 Day Challenge

906 Sea Breeze Lane  6 x 8", acrylic on paper
Day 9, 30 Day Challenge
SOLD © 2013 Maggie Ruley

Fellow blogger Maggie Latham lived in this little pink cottage on Pohalski  Lane in Key West awhile back.  I told her I would try to work it into the 30 day challenge.  I have painted this house before in a small painting called Sea breeze Lane.  I just couldn't title it Pohalski Lane, now could I?

Here are the photos of the lane, cute cottage but strange roof line.  The area on the right might have been a later addition, which is very typical of Key West architecture.

And in other news, the give away is still going on the information is below.

I am having a give-away!

Here is how it works.  Leave a comment on my post and you will be entered to win.  I am going to give away one painting a week for the duration of the 30 Day Challenge, (the month of September, 2013). If you comment daily on my posts then you can be entered up to 7 times to win.  The winner will have their choice of any unsold painting of the week. 

Those of you who subscribe by e-mail to this blog can either reply to the e-mail, or comment and you will be entered.

Please note this drawing is going to be casual.  I am not hiring any fancy auditing company to do the selection.  It is going to be a plain old pieces of paper in a bowl thing.

If you are the winner your painting will be shipped to you after it has dried, which can take one to two weeks with oils.

To see other paintings from the 30 day challenge click here.



Day 8, 30 Day Challenge, Smathers Beach, Looking North

Smathers Beach, looking north,  5x7" oil on paper.
Day 8, 30 Day Challenge
$40 ©2013 Maggie Ruley

I learned a lot the first week of this challenge.

1.  It is fun to offer a give away and get people to look at my blog.

2. I should not have gotten so enthusiastic about palm trees in the very beginning.  I still have about 7 starts that need to be finished.  But I did take some cottage photos today that I can use for reference this week.

3. It is easy to do a small painting everyday when I am working in the pottery studio, but when I am focusing on a larger piece it is hard to break away from that to do a smaller piece.

4.  I have wonderful friends in blog land and on Facebook.

I will give away another painting next Sunday, here's the info:

I am having a give-away!

Here is how it works.  Leave a comment on my post and you will be entered to win.  I am going to give away one painting a week for the duration of the 30 Day Challenge, (the month of September, 2013). If you comment daily on my posts then you can be entered up to 7 times to win.  The winner will have their choice of any unsold painting of the week. 

Those of you who subscribe by e-mail to this blog can either reply to the e-mail, or comment and you will be entered.

Please note this drawing is going to be casual.  I am not hiring any fancy auditing company to do the selection.  It is going to be a plain old pieces of paper in a bowl thing.

If you are the winner your painting will be shipped to you after it has dried, which can take one to two weeks with oils.




And the winner is

Roy Adams!

I want to thank everyone who left a comment. Another drawing starts today.

 

Danette Baso Silvers was my lovely assistant for the drawing.  I did take a video but can't seem to load it right now.  Maybe I can add it later.

Anyway, Danette is a graphic designer with a studio a couple of doors down the hall from me.

her web site is  InvitesByDanette.com



 

 

Roy, you have a choice of one of these paintings



A Light Breeze

This is painting 7 in the 30 day challenge.  Leave a comment and you will be entered to win one of this week's paintings.  I will be doing the drawing sometime on Monday, so that gives you plenty of time to comment and go back and comment on any days you might have missed.  And since I didn't post yesterday.  There are 2 posts today.

To see more of the 30 day challenge paintings go to www.lesliesaeta.blogspot.com

Day 6, 30 in 30 Challenge

I worked on this early in the morning of day 6 of the 30 day challenge.  I wasn't really happy with it and thought I would get back to it later.  That never happened so day 6 of the challenge remains unfinished .

I have however been hard at work on my larger painting.  To see more of the 30 day challenge paintings go to www.lesliesaeta.blogspot.com

Wild Beach, and a give away

I having a give-away!

Here is how it works.  Leave a comment on my post and you will be entered to win.  I am going to give away one painting a week for the duration of the 30 Day Challenge, (the month of September, 2013). If you comment daily on my posts then you can be entered 1 time for each day, so that would give you seven chances.  The winner will have their choice of any unsold painting of the week. 

Those of you who subscribe by e-mail to this blog can either reply to the e-mail, or comment and you will be entered.

Please note this drawing is going to be casual.  I am not hiring any fancy auditing company to do the selection.  It is going to be a plain old pieces of paper in a bowl thing.

If you are the winner your painting will be shipped to you after it 
has dried, which can take one to two weeks with oils.

To find out more about the challenge, join in, and see the other paintings click on the link    30 Day challenge

Wild Beach 6 x 8" oil on paper
day 5, 30 day challenge
$Sold

This is one of those wild beaches, not a fancy manicured resort beach. 

I'm giving away a painting

Red Sails 6 x 8" oil on paper
day 4, 30 day challenge
$40  unframed

I am having a give-away!

Here is how it works.  Leave a comment on my post and you will be entered to win.  I am going to give away one painting a week for the duration of the 30 Day Challenge, (the month of September, 2013). If you comment daily on my posts then you can be entered up to 7 times to win.  The winner will have their choice of any unsold painting of the week. 

Those of you who subscribe by e-mail to this blog can either reply to the e-mail, or comment and you will be entered.

Please note this drawing is going to be casual.  I am not hiring any fancy auditing company to do the selection.  It is going to be a plain old pieces of paper in a bowl thing.

If you are the winner your painting will be shipped to you after it has dried, which can take one to two weeks with oils.

Those of you who have left comments this week already consider yourselves entered for those days.

If you would like more information about the challenge, see what the other artists are painting, or join in click the link below

30 day challenge
Everyone have a good day!

Sailing in Safe Waters

Sailing in Safe Waters 6x8" oil on paper ©Maggie Ruley 2013
$40 unframed

After yesterday's debacle I returned to safer ground, a composition I have painted many times before:  The long stretch of beach just begging you to walk along it in the hard sand at the edge of the water.

 

Now for more interesting stuff.

 

2 new paintings I like and will possibly make some prints of them.  They are not for everyone, but kind of fun.

 



to be titled later, 14 x 11" acrylic on paper, ©Maggie Ruley 2013

to be titled later, 14 x 11" acrylic on paper, ©Maggie Ruley 2013

 

they are sort of a continuation of this old series, but are way more commercial.  Is that a bad thing?

As I Lay Sleeping acrylic 16 x 20" © 2007/2008? Maggie Ruley

Antony and Cleopatra acrylic 11 x 14" © 2007/2008? Maggie Ruley

Nothing but a Child acrylic 14 x 11" ©20007/2008? Maggie Ruley

 

Chunky, Funky Palm

It's not my fault,  I am out of coffee and had to drink tea!

 

Chunky Funky Palm,  8" x 6" oil on paper ©Maggie Ruley

 

 

That's my feeble excuse and I am sticking to it!

 

Any way, this is this morning's painting for day 2 of the 30 day challenge.  To find out more about the challenge go here.

 

 

Chunky Funky Palm with study

 

Pink Cottage, Day 1, 30 Day Challenge

Pink Cottage oil on paper 8"x6" ©2013 Maggie Ruley SOLD unframed

 

Pink Cottage is my first painting for the 30 day challenge.  I might want to work on it some more.  But this is as far as I am taking it today.  I did use the odds and ends of paint left on my palette from today to lay in some colors for future paintings.  It feels good to have the first painting done and future paintings started.

Pink Cottage with study

 

To find out more about this challenge, or to participate or to see paintings posted by the 300 or so artists participating in the challenge

go here

 

NOW,  move your eyes to the right, now up a little, that's it, and notice that my Etsy store is open.  Try the link and if you notice any problems with the store, please let me know.

 

And THANKS.