Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days - Yikes

Yes, yikes is right. I have signed up to do the 

30 paintings in 30 days September 2014 challenge

that Leslie Saeta is sponsoring on her blog. 

She set up a website and there are by now 

possibly over 600 artists all over the world participating.

She encouraged us to have a theme and I decided to do "Stuff In My Refrigerator" since there are probably at least 30 different things  :o)

I will be posting not only the paintings here on my blog, as well as on her blog - 

but hopefully the paintings' progress too.

For a sneak peek, 

the days up to Sept 1 will be the quick and tiny thumbnail sketches, in preparation.

pencil sketch  2.5  x 2 inches

For this one, I actually did a charcoal sketch with an alcohol wash before painting.

And for all of the 30/30 paintings, I prepared a few 5 x 6 inch but mostly 6 x 8 inch pieces of Arches Oil Paper. Those sizes were the best utilization of the 16 x 12 inch pad of paper.