I have been painting a lot on Friday’s at the Farmer’s Market this summer, as well as doing a lot of small paintings in the evenings, rather than larger ones. Summer is hard to find lots of time to paint, mostly because I don’t want to find the time. There’s so much to do outside, and I also get lots of reference photos during the summer so I can paint all winter. So these small paintings keep me going until it starts to get cooler and I start spending more time in the house.

I have a subscription to Emily Olson Art, so paintings are either painted from her tutorials, or inspired by her tutorials. Other’s are just things I wanted to try and paint. I have been using an Arches 140lb, 6×10 inch, spiral bound notebook, and it’s almost full, so I thought I would share the pictures I have painted in this particular book.

None of these pictures has been digitized because they are all practice pieces. But several of them are some of my favorite paintings I have painted. Painting outside for the time this summer was interesting. The paper dried faster, and somewhat differently than in a more controlled environment. The sun also dries the paper unevenly depending on how it hits the paper. Painting upright instead of flat took a bit of getting used to. But it was so fun to do several of these outside, and share something I love doing with the passer bys at the market. Which ones do you like?