ART by Amber

The best of #figuredrawing tonight. I enjoy practicing hands... #handsart #drawnfromlife

Another new one started this morning. I really want to find somewhere to exhibit these! #thingstodo #art #motherandchild #underpainting #womeninart #oilpainting

Making progress on this #motherandchild #painting. I don't think I've ruined it yet! In fact I think it's close to done... #wip #oilpainting #bodypositive #momandbaby

You can see all the wrinkles in the canvas (another one I dug out from my stash and recycled) and I'm not very sure I like how it turned out, but here's this morning's #halfhourpainting #morningpainting #art #oilpainting #recycledcanvas

So in the last couple days I've painted these minimalist (for me) pieces. I'm not sure if this is a new trend but I kinda like it! Opinions?

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Before and after. I’m back to painting over old canvases. Emo Amber got a makeover and I think it looks much better. You can see I didn’t quite finish the before, and I think I can tell why. I don’t remember what I was going for since this isn’t what I ever looked like. As I was painting over it I realized this was one of the canvases I primed myself instead of pre primed, and now I know why I don’t do that anymore. Priming was always kind of a pain in the ass, and so I skimped on the coats. For anyone who wants to go through the paint and wait process yourself, I’d recommend at least 3 coats. The most I ever did was 2 and it’s a much tougher and more absorbent surface to paint on. Which for oil paint is bad. Aaaanyway… Thanks for reading that whole thing!

Before and after. Sometimes a canvas needs to be repainted. I have so much work I'm not going to display, like experiments that didn't work out or just unfinished paintings. It feels so good to turn them into something current.

These eyes are judging me. Because I can't paint them right. Resist the judgey eyes!! #morningpainting #silliness #eyepainting #artiststruggles

Here's what I painted this morning. I feel like my most successful paintings are those I make in a short period of time. I think I could have a whole show called Half Hour Paintings...

Pretty successful #figuredrawing session tonight. I love it when the materials like me! #artallday #indiaink #artwin

God gave me a wake up call this morning to paint this. #paintingfaces #recycledcanvas #portraitsofnoone #artforgod #morningpainting

Finding time for some sketching. #artistsofinstagram #artistmom #drawing #lovemybaby

I think it's better? I feel like I've already spent too much time on it, but at this point I have to go back in and pretend like I didn't. That's what art is all about right? Pretending like you know what you're doing...

I painted on this today. And then I painted over most of what I had just done 😭 The results are on my Instagram... Instagram.com/amberosezellartist.

A preview of the cards I'm sending out to family this year. My second woodblock print! I'm thinking about selling the rest of the lot I'm printing... #handmadechristmas #cardsforsale #art