Sea Bottles Oil 5 x 7

Sea Bottles Pastel 5 x7
Pastel is far more successful than the oil... I began with the pastel and my challenge was to match colors when it came to the oil........Much easier to pick a stick out of my vast selection of pastels!

 Clam Cove Pastel 5 x 7

Clam Cove Oil 9 x12
The whole point of taking on this personal challenge by painting two paintings a day was to work quickly and with purpose.  No small brushes, no getting caught up in the minute detail.  Both paintings went very quickly and I love them both.

 The Barns Oil 5 x 7

The Barns Pastel 5 x 7
For the first time in this personal challenge, I can actually say that I like the oil better than the pastel!

 Working Wharf Oil 5 x 7

Working Wharf Pastel 5 x7
This was done from a watercolor reference.  My goal with both pastel and oil is to become more "painterly", more suggestive.  I think I accomplished that in this series.

Lakes Edge

 Lakes Edge Oil 5 x 7

Lakes Edge Pastel 5 x7
Sometimes the problem with any painting is in the editing.  I think, while I like the richness of the color of the pastel, I did a much better job of editing in the underbrush and some of the foliage in the oil.

 Cat Tails-Oil 5 x 7

Cat Tails- Pastel 5 x 7
Yesterdays effort in the two paintings a day.  I really love the painterly quality of the pastel.  I am much more comfortable in this medium than with the oil.  Thus the exercise!

 Cape Dunes Original Pastel 9 x 12

Cape Dunes Original Oil 5 x 7

Ok......the last for today.  I have been painting the sea shore lately and once again this is part of the two paintings a day series.

Rhetta's Blue Pot

 Rhetta's Blue Pot - Pastel

Rhettas Blue Pot -Oil

More in the two paintings a day series.  The original reference was a watercolor done En Plein Air.
Both paintings are 5 x 7. One pastel and the other oil

Unbridled Power

Another of the two paintings a day series.  The first is an oil and the second is a pastel.  This has been a wonderful exercise and after almost a month I do see progress!

Two Paintings a day!

My New Year's resolution for my art was to do two small paintings per day, one in pastel and one in oil.
These paintings are 5 x 7.  I am hoping that this will allow me to become a more accomplished painter in both mediums.  Occasionally, I have even done a watercolor of the same subject.