Leaving Blogger, utilizing my artspan site!

So, I have a website that offers a blog, and I am going to use it.  This way I have all my stuff in one spot!  Please feel free to come check it out!!

http://www.rockymountainfineartbyrlhuff.com/blog/ 

an easy to remember address even.  :) And, my website and blog being all inthe same place is so much more convenient!!!

Please, I look forward to seeing your comments over on the website blog!

Long time, no blogging activity!!!

It has been SUCH a long summer!!!  It was all great fun and all, but so little time to paint.  And anyone who says that being a stay at home mom is boring, should try being me!!!  I seem to only get one day a week to paint so far, and that's going to have to change shortly, because I will be doing 2 art shows this fall!!!  I am volunteering 1 full day, and one part day at my kids' school, and being an advocate for art program at their school as well.  It's a full time job itself, let alone taking care of a stray kitty that adopted us, my own pets, the "flip-a-car" side job we have going on, and anything else that comes up!!

That all being said, I HAVE made progress on my favorite painting, "Thunder on the Mountain".....  now this is a fuzzy picture, I will change it later.  but as you can see, it's not a fast pic to paint!  it's 24x36.  you can feel the ground rumbling as the horses thunder by... it's rather impressive to be there, and hopefully I can capture a bit of that in this painting!!!  the palomino and the bay/chestnut with the blaze still need attention, and then touchups of course.....  it's coming along, and I hope to finish in the next couple of weeks!  I have more ideas that need to be brought to canvas, so I better get a good system going here shortly!!  And, perhaps another easel for the studio?  hmmm!!!! 

Painting in Progress

A title for this one eludes me at the moment, but it sure is a fun one to do so far!!!  I needed to do something different, and painting a water/turtle scene seemed the right thing to do today!!!  this is two sessions so far, hour and a half or so for the first one, 45 for the second, top , above the long for the first, and the log on down for the second.  I do have the turtles blocked in, but I did that after this photo.

When I am standing up close and personal to the painting, I never really know just how it looks as a whole, because i see the individual parts that I have worked on.  Stepping back about 20 feet seems to do the trick, as far as letting my eyes see the whole picture.  There's plenty to do on this one yet.  the wood log certainly needs more work, and then of course, putting its reflection in, spreading the rocks toward the turtle that is in the water, adding i more reflections everywhere, and the obvious, finishing the turtles.  a couple more sessions and i may complete it.  the turtles are going to be quite detailed, so that session will be turtley-consumed with turtle detail.  :)  I can't wait, but I may not get to it tomorrow.....Here's to trying though!

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Catching the last rays

Hyalite Lake  acrylic on canvas (c) RLHuff 2012

Catching the last rays was a fun challenge to do, and I have a little extra to add to the picture.  Adding in a turtle to this painting really made the picture, I think.  That's the nice thing about a painting, if I want a turtle in the lake on a log, I can certainly put it in!!  :)  This picture makes me really want to get up to the lake! but it needs to warm up a touch (the high today was supposed to be less than 50....!!!), so....  I will have to enjoy it from the canvas view until it's a little warmer!!  :)

I have a few fond memories of this lake, and am hoping to get a few more paintings from the area as well!  :)  who knows what I will see when I take my camera and my kids with me for the first time to visit!  :)

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Horse at creek at sunset

Horse at creek at sunset

That's a lame title, but that's all I have for now!!  This was a fun challenge to do, because there's no direct light exactly.  Perhaps just a touch of light, causing the trees to glisten a bit, and put some light on the horse.  The painting needs a couple touchups and then it will be done as well.  I just love adding water to a painting, although, sometimes, putting in a shadow/reflection of something upside down, which means, the underside of the animal, in this case, can be a bit challenging.  so, sometimes, we just soften that a bit so it'snot so important in the painting.  that seems to work here.  I originally had a duck in the painting too, but that seemed too much. 

You can tell I LOVE green, because so many of mine are summer, although fall is fun.  Painting this when it's not all green out makes me feel at least like there's some green happening!  This is the type of place I just love to sit and watch.....

This painting is 12x24, acrylic on canvas, of course!  :)

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YES, I have been working!!!

YES, I HAVE been working!!! :)  It seems my poor blog has been quite neglected in past months. 

I did teach art lessons, 2 classes, once a week for a little over two months.  It was SO fantastic to watch all age ranges to grow during that time!!  Their art made such improvements that I was SOOOO amazed!!

As for myself, I even took an art class with Susan Blackwood!!  talk about such a blessing!!!  I took a 'water' painting class and learned so much, and found out that yes, I can paint underwater rocks...  :)  The above painting is "abandon"< I think, I am not sure I may change the title.  Or maybe I will just add in a lonely turtle in the water, not sure!  but this was sure a fun one to do.  I have a few modifications to do yet, though......I will work harder to keep posting here!  this one, by the way, is 16x20. 

Until the next posting, have a creative day!

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Teaching art classes soon!!!

Now, I do not fancy myself as a great artist, but I do possess some art skills and knowledge that I have gained over the years, and so I hope that I can coherently pass them on to kiddos and other beginners.  Art is all around us.  Things that give us pleasure, the inside the heart kind of pleasure, are all around us.  For me, I find it in nature.  But each of us finds beauty in different places.  We like to capture that which creates emotion in us.  Hopefully by crossing the "I don't know how to do it " barrier, , I can encourage kiddos to be more bold and less fearful, and work to capture that which captures their own hearts!!!