Painting of the Week Archives - Ellen Jean Diederich Studios

01 Jun

Painting of the Week – Contour Drawing

June 2, 2023
By Laurellee

Seeing the shapes A good painting starts with a plan. A photograph may have something you want to paint, but you can usually improve...

16 May

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Painting of the Week – Daisy Doodles

May 16, 2023
By Laurellee

Revisiting an Early Subject One of my early paintings, in fact it is hanging in my garage today, is an oil painting of daisies painted...

11 May

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Painting of the Week – Summer Breeze

May 11, 2023
By Laurellee

Seeing a Painting Differently Summer Breeze is now on display at the Alabama Watercolor Society National 82nd National Annual Juried E...

04 May

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Painting of the Week – Animal House – A Tri-College Manifestation

May 4, 2023
By Laurellee

Historical Roots This painting revisits a former theme developed during a very creative period in my art. It started during a chicken...

27 Apr

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Painting of the Week – Painting a Dairy

April 27, 2023
By Laurellee

Taking a Tour These sketches are from an eye-opening tour that Paul and I took viewing the windmills in Kinderdijk, Netherlands on the...

20 Apr

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Painting of the Week – Study of a Saddled Horse

April 21, 2023
By Laurellee

Warm up Paintings Artists can warm up their paint brushes. It’s good to get the right mix of water to paint, your timing down, and adj...

13 Apr

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Painting of the Week – Date Palms

April 13, 2023
By Laurellee

Retouching Plein Air Painting an area more than once helps you learn more about your subject. “Date Palms” was painted on location at ...

06 Apr

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Painting of the Week – Fall Scenery (in progress)

April 7, 2023
By Laurellee

Is It Done? Many times my students ask me how to tell when a painting is done. Here is one that I’m stuck on. It could be done. Someti...

31 Mar

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Painting of the Week – In the Beauty

March 31, 2023
By Laurellee

Pattern In the Beauty features these beautiful flowering trees. Apparently these are called pear trees, but they do not bear fruit. Fo...

23 Mar

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Painting of the Week – Commissioned Art

March 23, 2023
By Laurellee

Creating a Challenging Sketch I was commissioned to create a painting of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd sanctuary in Moorhea...