Linda Hunt

New work

This is a FineTec watercolor painting on black watercolor paper.  I am so obsessed with this paint because it lends itself to a painterly application.  You can find this painting at www.lindahuntfineart.com

This is a new paint to me.....it is a mica infused pigment watercolor paint.  Used on black watercolor paper allows that paint to shimmer againt the background.  It is a beautiful paint and I have just fallen head over heels for it.........

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Ink on Yupo paper....

These vintage glass Christmas balls are always fun to draw......

In this painting I was striving to capture the Spanish moss which hangs from the trees here in South Carolina.  It proved trickier than I thought it was going to be.  Because of the value changes in the moss as it hangs almost glittering in the sunlight I had to use a variety of color shifts to get the moss to read correctly.  This painting is 6"x 8" on a Raymar panel and will be for sale in my Etsy shop when dry.

I felt like painting a landscape today.  This is the salt marsh at Edisto right near where we pic nic every Thanksgiving Day.  It is a special tradition that we engage in year after year. 

I love beads...glass in particular and gemstones.  I took several years of jewelry making a while back and still love to work with silver.  Eventually I want to saw and construct out of brass and copper.  But, for now I play with my beautiful beads.  I am still painting...just filling the well.

Blogger is doing some very strange things this morning! Anyway, this is my latest small 6"x8" (ish) gouache painting done on archival mixed media paper. I used very strong color here and loved the results. Now...If I can transfer what I am learning from gouache into my oils! target="_top">

This is my entry to the 30 in 30 challenge.  I had fun with this painting.  My gouache arrived today and boy was it fun to work with!  The challenge for one of the DPW challenges was to use wild color to create a painting.  I chose the landscape that I did yesterday and completely altered the color and focused on value knowing that I could use any color and as long as the values were right it would read correctly.  What fun!!!

Do you want to learn a little more about painting loosely?  This is part of what I will cover in this one day workshop held in Savannah on April 5th from 9-4.  For more information go HERE.

  6"X 6" Oil Ampersand Gessobord $50.00 Day 25....this painting was not destined to be what I wanted...but, I still like it and am offering it at a discount. 

.   6"X 6" Oil Ampersand Gessobord   This is really late being listed and for that matter painted!  I had many things going on and I am just now trying to finish a painting for Day 19.  The little bird is a Christmas ornament and so is the silver glass ball. The bird is gold and sparkly.  I tried to capture some of the sparkle and am not sure if it translated.  The wings are gossamer with a very fine light color netting.  It was fun to paint.  I have tried unsuccessfully many times.  This time I understood value much better as well as color.  It is fun to try new things.  The 30 in 30 challenge has for some reason left me more able to experiment.  This painting can be found here .

  6"X6" Oil Ampersand Gessobord $100.00       I am sweating bullets...I wipe this baby out about 4 times and finally brought it to a conclusion!  I was actually going for almost full abstraction.  Pushing the limits was my intention and still maintaining some semblance of reality.  I was looking at the work of Kathryn Kehoe yesterday and that is something that I admire about her work; especially her still life paintings.  If you haven't had an opportunity to look at her work I encourage you to do so. As I have said many times about my work...I walk with one foot in abstraction and the other in realism.  It is pretty much the way that I approach life.  I like to go to the smallest denominator and then see how close to representation I can come.  This painting can be found here .

T   8"X 6" Oil Raymar Canvas Panel NFS   This is my submission to Day 16 of the 30 paintings in 30 day challenge.  This is a commission.