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A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 30...30/30 Challenge

30 Days Hath September...

I have a secret to tell you...

I started this challenge a week ahead of time. I had to looking at my crazy plein air schedule. I had two plein air competitions and lots of autumn I wanted to paint. But I really enjoyed painting all the pieces I did out of my mind...no photo...no still life set up. They instructed me and challenged me and I am sure I will be doing more of these.

I ended up painting closer to 40 paintings in September. Below are some of the plein air paintings I did...some are still available so if you are interested please message me!!

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A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 29...30/30 Challenge

Day 30
The Willows
16x12 oil by Wendie Thompson

Is there anything else on earth like a weeping willow? We had one planted in our front yard where I grew up. I don't know why they are called weeping...I think of them as cheering. They are normally the first ones to herald spring in Wisconsin...a most welcome sight indeed...almost an otherworldly green. They are also the last trees to loose their leaves in the fall...like guardians of all things living...like my father.

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 28...30/30 Challenge

Day 28
7x5 oil by Wendie Thompson

Good Morning!!!

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 27...30/30 Challenge

Day 27
8x8 oil by Wendie Thompson

Autumn arrives in my mind and in my backyard.

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 26...30/30 Challenge

Day 26
5x7 oil by Wendie Thompson

Yellow leaves glowing against a blue sky!

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 25...30/30 Challenge

What if the whole world was pastel??

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 24...30/30 Challenge

Day 24
5x7 oil by Wendie Thompson

She arrived in the candlelit room full of wishes and dreams...

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 23...30/30 Challenge

Day 23
7x5 oil by Wendie Thompson

I have walked this valley in my dreams...I can smell the fragrance and see the clouds dancing...

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 22...30/30 Challenge

Day 22
7x5 oil by Wendie Thompson

It's coming!!! I choose to see the beauty in it!!!

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 21...30/30 Challenge

Day 21
7x5 oil by Wendie Thompson

The only mountains in Wisconsin reside in my mind!!!

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 20...30/30 Challenge

Day 20
3 1/2 x5 oil by Wendie Thompson

Perhaps these flower fields will keep me warm all thru the winter!!

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 19...30/30 Challenge

Day 19
7x5 oil by Wendie Thompson

I have never stood in a field of lavender blooming...but I want to. 

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 18...30/30 Challenge

Day 18
4x4 oil by Wendie Thompson

Take a walk with me up a hill full of fragrance and color...to the top to watch the clouds roll by...

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 17...30/30 Challenge

Day 17
4x4 oil by Wendie Thompson

I keep going back to this field of flowers....I want to BE there!!!!

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 16...30/30 Challenge

Day 16
4x4 oil by Wendie Thompson

Black eyed Susans are found everywhere around me this time of year. A last blast of yellow before the slow descent into the beige and then the gray. I have them solidified in my mind...a protection against those days...

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 15...30/30 Challenge

Day 15
4x4 oil by Wendie Thompson

I stayed on this ridge in my mind for quite awhile watching the sun do it's thing and those clouds float by...close to heaven.

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 14...30/30 Challenge

Day 14
6x6 oil by Wendie Thompson

Her eyes go right through to your soul...don't lie to her...she will know.

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 13...30/30 Challenge

Day 13
6x6 oil by Wendie Thompson

Madonna of the golden headpiece?? 

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 12...30/30 Challenge

Day 12
5x3 1/2 oil by Wendie Thompson

Yep...revisiting this theme again and again in my mind. I see a big piece coming in the near future!!

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 11...30/30 Challenge

Day 11
3 1/2x5 oil by Wendie Thompson

Purple underpainting...cold wax medium...palette knife. To the edge of abstraction...right where I want to be!

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 10...30/30 Challenge

Day 10
5x3 1/2 oil by Wendie Thompson

"I will set you free in a wide open place"  Ps 31 v8

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 9...30/30 Challenge

Day 9
3 1/2x5 oil by Wendie Thompson

Again this is really tiny. I love the free flow of ideas on canvas. I used to paint a realist/impressionist piece and then play with an abstract with the paint left on my palette. One informed the other and I learned so much that way about how shape interacts with shape! When I first started painting my hubby one day looking over my shoulder said..."Humph...flowers and angels...great...(HA!)

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 8...30/30 Challenge

Day 8
3 1/2 x5 Oil by Wendie Thompson

Ok...so this is tiny!! But I love it! I have been dreaming of fields of flowers...I want to walk thru them smelling their fragrance. I can promise you I will be revisiting this theme!!

A Little Piece of my Mind; Day 7...30/30 Challenge

Day 7
4x6 oil by Wendie Thompson

Visions of moonrise fill my mind. I may come back to this. Did I mention? I am playing with a new medium for me...cold wax. So far so good!!

A Little Piece of my Mind; Day 6...30/30 Challenge

Day #6
4x6 oil by Wendie Thompson

Blond and blue eyes came waltzing through my mind...HELLO!

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 5...30/30 Challenge

Day #5
5x7 Oil by Wendie Thompson

I am surrounded by rural beauty where I live. I close my eyes and see it in all it's variation. This could easily be across the street form my house! I am blessed!

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 4...30/30 Challenge

Day  #4
6x4 oil By Wendie Thompson

Did I tell you? I am totally intrigued by faces! This guy with his red beard...who are you??

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 3: 30/30 Challenge

#3
7x5 oil By Wendie Thompson

Well Hello!??! Where did you come from? She seems to be watching the whole thing burning!

A Little Piece of my Mind: Day 2... 30/30 Challenge

#2
6x6 Oil by Wendie Thompson

I know! Your shocked right? I have flowers floating around in my head! But just keep following...I promise that is not all that's in there!!!

A Little Piece of my Mind: September 2014 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge!

#1
6x6 oil by Wendie Thompson

So once again I have taken up the gauntlet of Leslie Byrd Saeta's 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge! This is my third time entering and last year I was not able to complete it as my Father passed away and the swirl around that...well it just was no longer the priority.

September is a very busy month for me as I still have a number of Plein Air Competitions I am in as well as the undulating family life I am involved with. I will most likely end up with more than 30 paintings in September...time will tell.

So I have decided that for the challenge I will paint small pieces (no larger than 6x6 or 5x7) and while I normally paint from life, all of these works will be out of my head...no photo, no model, no plein air...just grey matter. You are invited to view whats floating around in my mind!!

You can follow my daily paint throwing here and also on Leslie's blog: http://lesliesaeta.blogspot.com/ (I heard she was closing in on 800 artists in 22 countries who have signed up to do the challenge! How cool is that!!) 

Border Wars...Number Two!

Wow...I got out to paint today with some good friends!! Cedarburg is such a beautiful place...can't wait for summer!

Great Mid-West Plein Air Border Wars: Winter 2014!

Wow...plein air in the Winter BURRRRRRR!

First thing you must do is decide to go out there. Then you need to figure out how on earth to do this. Bundle up baby it's cold outside!

http://midwestpleinairborderwars.blogspot.com/