Libby Anderson Daily Painting

I don’t do landscapes as often as flowers. You will notice that I often sneak in flowers in my landscapes. I am hopeless! I totally left r...

It is always important to have a center of interest in a painting. An easy way to make that happen is to make that center of interest d...

In 1987 I went to Matisse Retrospective at the museum of Modern Art in NYC. It was a huge  show featuring many of his works that had been ...

I tend to paint florals more than landscapes but the same principles apply in both subjects. My one objection to landscapes in summer is t...

In a 2 dimensional painting texture usually has to be implied. Some artists use oil paint thickly which adds a texture of its own. I choo...

This painting has gone through a few versions.Each one has sat on a shelf and stared at me for a few days. I did not really like those ver...

The title of a painting just comes to me often with no effort. When I finished this one I immediately was reminded of the colorful clothin...

There was a book written several years ago titled Love in the Time of Cholera. Well , painting now seems to be Art in the time of Corona. ...

I had done an earlier version of this painting. It was fine but something about it wasn’t quite right to me.It took me a long time to fig...

There are many color schemes to choose from for a painting. For this one I started with a primary colr scheme and added onto that.Because ...

When painting objects that are similar there are certain things that need to be done to make the painting more interesting.These zinnias a...

I think the thing that makes this painting work so well is the dark background. It gives the painting a certain drama that makes the flowe...

In 1980 The Police came out with a son that had a lyric tha said “Don't stand so close to me”. In these days of social isolation it is...

This painting started from a look at a photograph and a germ of an idea in my head. The end result ended up looking nothing like either on...

This is a garden  scene that is relatively close up. It is not a panorama that shows distant mountains and fields so there is not a lot of...

This painting started as a demo for a local garden club a few weeks ago. It was before the current situation of the coronavirus and seem...

I think garden scenes are my favorite scenes to paint. There is always something new to see every time you look at a garden view; whether ...

I love red  as the the main color in a floral arrangement , especially with a white background. I didn't draw the flowers first, I sta...

Color could be the most important thing about a painting.It is usually the first thing one notices about a painting; more so than the actu...

I did a painting demo for a local garden club yesterday. I painted  something similar to this painting for the demo. I explained the styl...

Painting the background of a painting is often the hardest thing to do.One solution I have found is to make the subject matter fill up as ...

I love to paint this kind of bright splashy colorful painting. It reminds me of a box of candy with all of the reds and pinks; a kid’s ver...

I love geraniums because of the beautiful red or pink color and the sturdy leaves. This painting is for a commission for the client’s kitc...

I love the metal lid on this mason jar used for a vase. I have a tube of paint named Pewter. I used  it as a pure color on the lid but I a...

I fell in love with the colors of this bouquet. It reminded me of opening a new school watercolor paint set with the oval color pans set o...

This is another of my acrylic paintings done with my new Golden brand paints. It is true that you get what you pay for. The more expensive...

I have been painting mostly with oils for quite a while. I recently signed up for an acrylic workshop in May so I bought some new acrylic ...

I love color and most of my paintings have a lot of it. But sometimes I try to keep them as neutral as possible while still having a lot o...

I have painted many meadow scenes, allowing me to paint a landscape while still doing flowers. The title came to me because the meadow see...

A good way to start off January is with a painting and only a few resolutions. I got too busy at the end of last year  and did not post on...