Challenges

"Beach Day"
Acrylic, coarse alumina, micaceous iron oxide
5 x 7
$85 - For Sale
©2015 Adele Castillo AllRightsReserved

I've done it. I signed up for the Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days challenge with Leslie Saeta. I've followed her blog off and on for awhile, then I was able to take a workshop with her in September 2015 when she came to Crossroads Art Center in Richmond, VA. Although I typically paint in acrylic, this was an oil painting workshop, using 3 painting knives and only 5-6 tubes of colors. We created one painting each day (ok, well, I did two paintings in two days - the third is still in my freezer hoping to be completed one day.) I liked how Leslie spends at least an hour prepping her paint mixtures, allowing her to paint for the rest of her allotted time. 

Kay, who is the manager of Crossroads, came in to my studio as I was painting and asked if I was participating in the challenge. I knew another Crossroads artist, Linda Hollett-Bazouzi, was taking it on, but when I realized there would be more of us, I sighed deeply and dove in. YEP! I'm there. 

I had already set as a goal for 2016 to finish 4 different bodies of work (This includes selfies for an exhibit in November, lingering commission paintings to finish, sea paintings and pup paintings) -- ambitious for someone who typically paints at a snail's pace.  This will help me work on the smaller sea paintings and my smaller dog paintings to get more of those ready for sale. I will post the Thirty Days paintings here, on my Facebook page and also on the Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days site. 

Encouragement is welcome.