Internet painting ideas

Carol Marine publishes a new challenge every month on her marketplace for artist's, Daily Paintworks. You can still do the old ones as there is no deadline. So here's my interpretation of the "people inside challenge" of November 2019:

"Three people inside"

10x15cm, oil on gessoed cardboard

Also posted at: DWP-people-inside-challenge

During this period of Corona confinement, I also found a Facebook group ("Free Reference Photos for Artists") where photographers post reference photos that artists can use. Here is my painting inspired by Roxenne Cheeney's photograph of Yellowstone National Park:

 

"Yellowstone"
21x15cm, oil on gessoed cardboard

And another one from out west, based on a photo by Sue Miller:

 

"Red rocks"
10.5x11.5cm, oil on gessoed cardboard

D'après Eugène Boudin

More practice painting skies with a beautiful sunset on the beach by Boudin. I bought a canvas nearly the same size as the original for this one but found out that Boudin used wooden panels so my copy is probably a bit more grainy than the original. Yet I am happy with the result and learned more about Boudin in the process. He painted many of these beach scenes with women in long dresses because they were popular among his clients. I can see that he really enjoyed painting skies. He probably had extremely fine brushes to get so much detail in the people. At first I found the faces mediocre but then read that the women were wearing veils to protect them from the elements so it makes sense that they are not clear.

Copy of Boudin's "Personages sur la plage, effect de soleil couchant" (1869)
27 x 45cm, oil on canvas (original is 29x47cm), varnished
(private collection, Madrid)