I did more pastel than oil work this year, but here are a few oils from 2018 I’m happy with.

This was my best landscape closing 2018. Not quite what I was going for but looks okay anyway.

Kevin

I really like your landscape Kevin. The reflections in the water are perfect. Its very immersive.

Thank You. I’m getting anxious to do another water scene either a crashing wave onto a beach or something more tranquil. I’m now getting the hang of painting them without too much worry. The difficult part for me now is coming up with a nice scene to paint.

Kevin

Ahh…but if we didn’t have so much fun, we wouldn’t keep at it! I had an absolute blast with my cloud dragon, even though the painting itself wasn’t very good. The Hawwai’ian beach scene is from a friend’s photo; see the cliff ‘face’? He even had/has green ‘ear hair’.

Here are my two 2018 favorites:

That’s a tough choice. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but these are some of my favorite paintings of 2018. All of them are small paintings, 8×8 or 8×10.

I’m not sure this could be considered my best, as it is my only painting I did last year. its also severely unfinished… I might revisit it some time. Fun fact about this one, both the stretcher bars and frame are from a old crappy landscape painting my aunt found at a property she manages… the previous tenants left it behind with a lot of other stuff. so I decided to recycle it and put a fresh piece of canvas and its good to go. I had plans to restore the frame (a lot of nicotine stains on it along with probably a few decades of dust). but like a lot of things I made plans for… a project for another time.

Excellent work in this section….dare I offer samples of mine?…such a long time since I posted anywhere, but have learned a lot over the years. This is a dear 92 year-old friend, it is one of a few attempts with the palette knife.
….and this is her son.
Regards to all, Deana