Nearly Finished!

Tah-Dah!!!
It's finally all coming together, and with one day before it hangs in the gallery!!
This morning I blasted my Mumford and Sons Pandora radio and painted while poorly singing and dancing along to that crazy banjo music! Haha, I'm keeping it eclectic at the Bosserman household, and hey, whatever helps the job go faster. Whistle while you work!

(Please excuse the creepy Mel Gibson looking on..)

More work needs to be done, but now I believe it will be finished on time!
If you'd like to be at the Art Walk Gallery show, here's the address,

3rd Annual Art-a-Day Show!

Thursday, March 3rd,5 – 9pm

First Thursday Art Walk in Historic Downtown Kennewick

at

Chell Design,11 S Benton St, Suite A,Kennewick, WA 99336

I hope to see you,

Stay Artsy,

~Sarah Bosserman

Perspective With Floss

Yes, I'm tweaking the Green House painting again.
I wanted to do correct perspective, so, naturally I used floss to map out the lines. Floss. Yes, I used floss. I couldn't find my chalk sticks and it was the closest thing at hand.
I don't know how my dentist would feel about this, but hey, it worked!

Stay Artsy,

~Sarah Bosserman

Green House Progress and a Bit of Alice

I got so much work done on my Green House painting today.
With my music blasting and pallet in hand I hashed out the beginning layers of the sky. Later I'll add more blue low lights and orange-ish highlights to give the rolling space clouds more definition. After I finish the sky I can move on to the metal casing of the green houses and the tree silhouettes.

After working on my painting and with my students, I came home to a surprise Valentines Day package from my sweet Aunt Kristina. Inside I found Dove Chocolates (Does she know me or what?) and an Alice in Wonderland Liv Doll! I was so happy to get a doll, I haven't received one since age 8, and after all.. are you truly ever to old to have one? I plan to keep it on my shelf next to my copies of Alice in Wonderland. For years I have loved the classic story. So full of rich description and imagination, I collect old editions and modern ones for the beautiful illustrations. Lewis Carroll's tale has been a huge source of inspiration for my art. You can see some of my "Alice" inspired art here and here.

She's beautiful!!
Thanks Aunt Kristina!!
Stay Artsy,
~Sarah Bosserman

Happy Valentines Day!

Image created by me, quote, Charles Shultz

I hope you all had a lovely Valentines Day.

I spent mine stewing over the Green House painting, and how I've got to finish it within two weeks because there is a slight possibility of it hanging in a gallery for First Thursday. I'm crossing my fingers and using every iota of spare time to get it finished! One of the things I deal with a lot as a painter is trying to long and hard to make the painting be just like the one in my head. It's not like I'll think poorly of myself if it doesn't come out perfect, but I will go on for months until it does come out right. I have trouble letting good enough be good enough!

Anyways, here's a little peek at the work I put into the "beast" today.

Unfortunately, much of my work is lost in the pixelation of photography.

Yikes, this has been a bit of a downer post.. I think that box of truffles, and chocolate chia
that came in the mail via Grandma (how I love you so) is calling me... Lucy knew what she was talking about.
Ah, the ups-and-downs of a painter!

Stay Artsy, and Happy Valentines Day,
~Sarah Bosserman

Green House Painting

After an hour of painting tonight I feel like it's starting to finally come together! Now, if only my camera would stop taking blurry photos, I could really show you it!

I'll try and take some pictures of it tomorrow in proper light.

Stay Artsy,

~Sarah Bosserman

Quick Update

Quick Green House Update.

I painted the farthest GH and I'm about to work on the horizon glow. More pictures tomorrow!

Sleep Well, Stay Artsy,

~Sarah Bosserman

Green Houses, First Layers Complete

Here is another progress report on my Green House Painting.

One of the reasons I painted over the sky and green houses is because I wasn't to start creating visual depth in my paintings. Working layers of shadow and color from the back all the way forward to the viewer. I want to make it so when you look at this it has a near tangible depth, so the first layers of black sky and misty green-blue are very important. Next I'll add shadows of ferns/trees in the GH (Green House) and I'm going to do some research to see how colors come forward and recede in galaxies. I'm thinking the cool colors are farther away and the warmer ones up front, but research must be done to be sure!

Wish me luck, this is going to be the biggest challenge I've faced yet with a paint brush!

Stay Artsy,

~Sarah Bosserman

Green Houses, Google Sketch and a Rascal

After such a positive experience with my last Google Map experiment, I went and did it again!

I wondered around Spain for awhile, but somehow found myself back in France.

This hotel D'Europe is located at 4 Rue de Limas, Avignon France.

This is the Green House painting I worked so "vigorously"

on last night. As you can see I've decided to move in a different direction with the

glass domes. I was sitting in front of the old yellow one(s) thinking about how much I loathed the cheesy yellow when I was suddenly hit by a novel idea.

Green Houses, they should be green shouldn't they?

So full of living green and misty air, why couldn't they?

This photo represents about an hour and a half of quick brushwork. I wanted the colors to

be smoothly blended. None of that dry brushing. this wasn't an easy feat using quick

drying Acrylics, but it was well worth the effort.

Later I'll add the exo-skeleton of black iron, but now I have a satisfying inner

color, and maybe I'll add some plant silhouettes.

I'll send you all off with this somewhat graceful photo of my

sweet puppy, Rascal.

Stay Artsy

~Sarah Bosserman

After today's 30th Sketch Crawl (http://sketchcrawl.com/), I was so inspired that I ran home and worked vigorously on my Green House painting. I squirted out the paint and slathered it on willy-nilly. My fingers became blue, white, black then green! Paint on my wrists, fore-arms even! I threw it all on the canvas, reworked the glass domes and didn't look back!
Tomorrow,
photos will come.
Stay Artsy
~Sarah Bosserman

Short and.. Well, Short.

I have really got to start doing my blog posts before 9:00pm so this going to be short.
My sister and father were home sick all day, so my painting time was at a minimum.
I managed to pull out my paints and work on lowering the horizon line though.
I think this helps to bring an emphasis to the green houses.
Before they seemed to be huddled to much amongst the trees.
I also think this gives the sky a wider and grander view.
One of these days I'll take a decent picture of my painting.
Maybe tomorrow.

Well, good night,
Stay Artsy
~Sarah Bosserman

On Monday nights I take an art class.

Tonight we did small water colors of what we're afraid of.

I decided to take an unusual approach to this exercise. I wanted to paint something fictional, so, I made the Kraken, a giant sea monster from a book I read.

Here's a small peek from my work on the Green-House painting.

I've decided to repaint the sky first. I'm working from the bottom up with a blue glow on the horizon. I'll expand that glow so it has a more even shading into the black sky, but today this is as far as I got. If you look at the bottom of this photo, you can see my tiny sky color study.

It's kind of cute next to it's huge cousin.

Renewed Start!

I got closer to that huge detailed painting today!
Since I started this monster of a piece last summer and put it aside up until now, I took some time to re-define what I want from it. To do this I gathered up my brushes and paints and went to Starbucks, my home away from home. I sat in there for two hours painting this color study for the sky and greenery. I wish my camera could take better pictures than this!! So much of my careful brushwork is lost!

This is the picture I started last summer. It's 4'x4' and all acrylic.
Don't get any ideas though, this painting is a long, long, long way from being done.
As you can see it has a lot going on, and my instinct is to simplify and bring in a better
brush-flow. I also think the green houses need to be toned down A LOT, and given a more aged patina. I'm not feeling the bright yellow light either.
The green house window dormers need to be shrunk too in order to give a grander scale to the rest of the picture. like, 1/5th of the size they are now.

Tomorrow is the day I start again!
Wish me luck, this is my next big project!
Stay Artsy,
~Sarah Bosserman