My all new web site!

I have just updated my web site, and it's all new. Please visit amymann.com. Your comments are welcome. Please let me know if you find any problems with the site. I am also going to change my blogs, since I'll be using my web site more. I'll still have a copying blog, but I will probably delete my Adventures in Painting and my Portrait blogs. This Painting a Day blog will still exist, but I will probably change its name to "New Work". Stay tuned. (If you like to follow my museum copies, you should probably subscribe to that blog, Copying at the National Gallery.)

Wapping, Day 2

This is as far as I got today, Day 2 of copying Whistler's "Wapping". It's quite a complicated painting!

New National Gallery copy begun

I've posted a new post on my copying blog - check it out!
http://amyilenemann.blogspot.com/2010/06/wapping-by-james-mcneill-whistler-day-1.html

museum copy, final

This is the final on "The Biglin Brothers Racing" by Thomas Eakins. It was fun to copy. My next copy will be by Whistler. Stay tuned. (See my copying blog at http://amyilenemann.blogspot.com/ for details, and subscribe to that blog for updates.

museum copy

I've been working on copying "The Biglin Brothers Racing" by Thomas Eakins. I chose it because I like figures, I went to school in Philadelphia, and I like painting water. I was shocked to see how dirty the painting seems to be. I'm painting mine as if it was clean. It's a challenge to see the colors.

"Daffodils", oil on canvas, 22"x18"

I'll bet you were wondering when I was going to pick up a paintbrush again! I just needed to not paint for awhile. I've been knitting instead. But now I feel like painting again, so I have made a start. The daffodils made me do it. I consider this a sucky painting, necessary after so long a hiatus. Now that I've gotten the sucky painting out of my system, I can move on to better things.

"Chocolate Doughnut", oil pastel, 5"x7"