“When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.” ~ Antonio Porchia
DAILY PAINTING: Today it’s a quick cloudscape, this time with a bright colour space that brings an aqua-green into the mix.
Really enjoy these quick sketches that encompass movement, stretching the boundaries of possibility, taking my imagination to more expansive places.
Artwork Copyright Patricia White 2023.
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” ~ Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
Lately I’ve been on a tree-drawing binge. This tree concept framework is based on some of my vintage pastels (see thumbnail below) worked in a style that I want to revitalize. I’ll build on this concept with various mediums going forward.
Art copyright Patricia White 2023.
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
~ Marcel Proust, French Novelist
DAILY PAINTING is an effort to keep my art-making skills active, develop new techniques and generally just keep discovering new ways to document the world I see and imagine. This quick sketch drawn with coloured pencils and white charcoal, is an imagined vista. I scored the paper with a small ball-headed stylus before putting pencil to paper so those areas would remain white when the pencil was drawn across the indentations. Think I’ll use a larger stylus the next time to make those lines more prominent.
Artwork Copyright Patricia White 2023.
“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.”
– Paul Cezanne
Over the past months I have been reacquainting myself with many of the master artists of the past. Most of them came from traditional roots and many were ridiculed when they broke with tradition to explore other ways of looking at and depicting a subject. They are also the artists we revere the most all these generations later.
This is my quick study, working title ‘Paint Like Cézanne’
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All artwork and creative writing is Copyright ©️ of Patricia White. No use of this content or concept may be used without the express permission of the artist/author.
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” ~Pablo Picasso
AUTUMN’S COMING WIP
I’ve been in file-backup-hell all week. Changing web providers and spent hours this week cleaning up a slew of email accounts. Wreaking havoc with my hand and arm pain so scribbled on my iPad today.
Not wild about it as a whole but there are parts that I had fun exploring. was trying for a bright coloured autumn’ish’ landscape with a large bank of clouds dominating the piece.
It feels unfinished but the DAILY DRAWING mantra is to just get something down on paper or tablet :
”DO NOT OBSESS”.
Artwork Copyright Patricia White 2021.
ART FIX: I’ve been making art in small sketchbooks for the past while as my studio is in process of being moved. I have a few smallish sketchbooks stacked up in my “BEDOFFICE” along with pencils, paints and pastels and have been trying to do at least a couple sketches or concept ideas every day, morning and night. These sketches may stand on their own or become inspiration for a larger work later on. This little painting, THINKING AHEAD TO SPRING, is a tiny 3-1/2” x 4” piece painted using water media on December 26th.
Artwork Copyright Patricia White 2021.
This site is dedicated to maintaining a daily habit of making art. It may contain pages from my sketchbooks, examples from past work, conceptual ideas and inspirational influences, I have several small sketchbooks and journals in my ‘bedoffice’, with a variety of drawing and painting materials stacked alongside, so I can get an idea down quickly when it is fresh in my mind. One really CAN make art on just about anything. This quick ‘fantasy landscape’ sketch was drawn with a set of 72 half stick Faber Castell soft pastels and may serve to inspire a larger work down the line. Has a bit of a woodblock feel to it I think. This cool little 7” x 9” book was originally purchased as a small photo album. It has thick black paper separated by glassine-like cover sheets, perfect for protecting soft pastel sketches. The photo paper however is UNFORGIVING, having a shallow tooth that fills quickly with each stroke, disallowing more layered colour. Still, I will be sad when this little book, with it’s bright woven fabric cover, is full but want to get a HIGHER QUALITY BLACK PAPER to continue EXPERIMENTING with light on dark work.
Artwork Copyright Patricia White 2021.
When the cares of the world weigh heavy, I debrief my psyche by making art. This is a little 6” x 9” soft pastel sketch drawn in a small photo album on not-so-friendly shallow-toothed absorbent black paper that can only take two layers of pastel before its pores are full. This is CHALK FOREST a study for a series of larger abstract-expressionistic landscape pieces.
Artwork Copyright Patricia White 2021.
Trisha’s Daily Painting 