Carrie L. Lewis | January 25, 2010
That’s always the question I ask myself when I finish a painting session. Is that area done?
When I stopped work on the portrait of Clyde this afternoon, it was my assessment that the background was done.
The client decided early in the process that she preferred a solid background. No landscape. Nothing special.
She further decided to [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | July 21, 2009
The focus of work for June and July has been the completion of portraits. Guienne Hanover is finished and awaiting approval. The ministry portrait of The Little Dog (left) is well on its way through the color stages and nearing completion and Lockkeeper is about half completed using a more direct method. One portrait is [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | July 11, 2009
Now that the portrait of Guienne Hanover is completed and drying, it’s time to turn back to the lesson paintings.
I got back into that mode of painting by starting the color work on two more paintings. Blue Cooler (shown below) and Impulsion. That brings to five the number of paintings that have entered the final [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | June 23, 2009
I had a very difficult time getting going Monday, June 22. A lot of heat (forecast high near 100 and humid … it was so hot, it was impossible to stand in bare feet for very long on a sunlit porch this afternoon), a little bit of depression and a lot of work to catch [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | June 13, 2009
Studies in the Flemish painting technique entered a new phase today: color.
Three paintings were ready to being color work and I worked on all three of them.
Two of them, Contemplation and Joker involved nothing more complicated than rubbing the first color into the backgrounds and the horses themselves. Just a few minutes for each one [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | June 11, 2009
Now that I have most of my lesson paintings set up on an individual page elsewhere on this blog, you can follow your favorite painting without searching the blog. Each painting is documented beginning to end as it goes through the painting process. Most of the same information presented in individual blog posts is included [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | June 2, 2009
The first day of a new month.
The first working day of a new week.
The first day back at the easel in two weeks!
It hardly seems possible, but it has been two weeks exactly since the last time I painted. I had the beginnings of what has turned out to be a bad cold that day.
This [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | May 30, 2009
May 18, 2009
I’m not particularly thrilled with this one, but I think the dead layer is finally done. I know one thing; from now on every painting that features fabric of any kind is going to have the best references I can come up with!
I worked over the blanket for some time today before finally [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | May 16, 2009
Blue Cooler
8″ x 10″ on Prepped Panel
I had hoped to finish the dead layer this week. The painting is small, only 8×10, and I had already established the values in the previous working session.
But the cooler part of the painting is proving more of a challenge than expected. I think the horse is done, but [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | May 9, 2009
Blue Cooler
8″ x 10″ on Prepped Panel
The only painting I worked on this Monday (May 4) was Blue Cooler, but I made very good progress on it and blocked in the entire dead layer during the afternoon.
I confess that it was nowhere near a finished dead layer because I hurried through the last part of [...]
I am a self-taught artist for the most part. Lots of trial and error in the past forty years! Formal art training consists of a couple of years of high school art, a painting class at a community college, one semester in the Fine Arts program at Abilene Christian University and a couple of local workshops.
I am always looking for ways to better my artistic skills, so I am a permanent student in the School of Trial and Error. I love reading and have been known to spend hours online researching materials and techniques. As a result, I've painted in several different styles, including the direct method (which goes straight for the color) and Classical methods (which involves underpaintings, layering and glazing).
I have exhibited paintings in locations such as Lone Star Park Race Track, Grand Prairie, Texas and Remington Park Race Track, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Since the early 90s, I've worked with the Michigan Harness Horseman's Association, donating custom portraits to their annual benefit auction.
In the course of maintaining a growing art business, I have taught myself web design (a skill that will no doubt prove to be a continual learning experience).
I also enjoy puttering around the yard, chasing trains with my husband, Neal, travel and, of course, looking at horses whenever they appear on my horizon.
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