Libby Anderson Daily Painting

 Colors that an artist chooses tend to convey the message of a painting.This painting doesn't have the most brilliant colors available b...

 Several years ago we visited England. We started in Manchester, visited London and ended up in the Cotswolds. It was a picture book version...

 I have painted sunflowers many times before . This is a different view; it is a back view and shows the flowers backlit. One way to make a ...

 Although it is the middle of winter; I choose a summer landscape to display. A few years ago I started doing a series of meadows or fields ...

 I like choosing multiple objects in a composition. It works well to vary the size of the objects to make the painting more interesting. Ano...

 Composition in a landscape usually relies on some kind of perspective. There is most often a view that shows distance;foreground, middle gr...

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...