MY SUPER DUPER PETITE STUDIO

PETITE STUDIO OF CAROL HOPPER

DAILY PAINTER

Artists and friends are interested

 in the tools we use

 our methods and techniques

 and seeing our studios. 

 I invite you in to my studio today AND I invite you to join with me in my latest addiction, Pinterest.  

Very neat and tidy  ALWAYS
Lighting from window, color corrected bulbs overhead and Ott Light

Storage galore, under the counter

Drawer always open during painting

Palette open
 drawer with brushes open
still life set up and lit with color corrected Ott lamp

Yes, also a laundry room
sink to wash brushes
and shelf for paintings in drying stage
more storage for art supplies

Palette sitting on rolling taboret which is really for wine bottles

Mat is memory foam

CARDINAL ON CEDAR

CARDINAL ON CEDAR
5x5 oil on canvas covered board
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Beautiful snowy day
Door County
Wisconsin

I have not painted any bird for a long time
I love them
and make sure I keep the bird bath full
and thawed
even in the winter months

Yes
we have cardinals in
New Mexico too

WINTER SUNSET, pastel painting

Winter Sunset
pastel, 16x24
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"Winter Sunset", 16x24, pastel, framed under glass with triple mats.    As a child, I fantasized a Currier and Ives Christmas.  I studied Christmas cards, love the churches lit for services, sleighs, horses, snow and especially the book/poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snow Evening" by Robert Frost.  This painting represents me as a child.

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CHRISTMAS 2013

First Step in Decorating

My grandson Eli and I
are going on the
ADVENTURE
of our lifetimes.

Going, doing, eating, experiencing
CHRISTMAS
as we have never before experienced it.


NORWAY


So
I planned no decorating at home
until
I just had to
even though I won't even be here

Here are my first steps
Need more red and
tons of fresh greenery



Below is a link to the most uplifting
beautiful
videos I have seen.

Enjoy

http://www.wimp.com/upliftingaffirmations/

CHRISTMAS GOOSE

CHRISTMAS GOOSE

5x5 oil on canvas covered panel

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Finished Painting

Drawing and 1st transparent color

Panel completely covered with transparent paints

Correcting drawing with handy wipe-out tool

Laying in opaque colors with palette knife

Developing greens, shadow and bill size


I am participating in a Christmas painting event called 


PAINT A MASTERPIECE BLOG http://www.paintamasterpiece.blogspot.com

Voting takes place daily but you didn't know that, did you?
Please go the website above and vote for my Christmas Small Paintings.  Go back and vote for all December Date entries.

PLEASE

HEART LOCKET

HEART LOCKET
5X5 oil on panel
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   I set goals for December to daily

 paint only from life

write that for which I was thankful

and to do something kind for another or myself 

I am doing well on the first two but not well on the last.  

I need to get out of the studio or the house and find too many excuses

it's cold

it's snowing

my head hurts

The HEART LOCKET painting is for all of you

to remember

someone you love

to hang on the Christmas tree

or frame

or display on a tabletop easel

HERE'S TO LOVING DECEMBER

REMEMBER

REMEMBER 

5X5 oil on museum quality board

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Remember

a painting 

for the holidays

either framed or displayed on a tabletop easel

soft, gentle, quiet, yet a celebration

Painting process including drawing and blocking in

Developing painting after entire canvas has transparent paint

WITH LOVE

WITH LOVE, 10x10, oil on museum quality panel.

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I am a big celebrator of the holidays.  I used to insist my husband celebrate my half birthday as well as the actual birthdate.  Then I got older so one of those is enough.  

So December is a big month for me…Christmas and my birthday (21st).  And of course December goals.  There are three things I want to accomplish this month.  

     a.  Daily writing of all for which I am grateful

     b.  Paint daily from life (no photos this month; more presents to come)

  c.  Celebrate every day by doing something special (part of my daily writing too)

Gift in Blue

GIFT IN BLUE

10x10, oil on museum panel, unframed.  Click here to purchase.

It is that time of year…gifts for Christmas, and then comes Valentine's Day.  I love to wrap and usually choose a color scheme for the gifts, decorations, and the tree.  

My Set Up brightly lit

Partial block in completed when canvas is covered

Painting being developed and first of opaque colors added

Developing bow more….realizing package color is wrong