50 small paintings, #35 and #36

I have been painting the exercises of Mark Daniel Nelson's "Learn to paint acrylics with 50 small paintings" book. I am now up to #36. It is a very great "daily practice" book and I have learned a lot!

Mount Robson #15

Hot off the press! Mount Robson #15 acrylic painting by Annette Truong.

8x10, canvas.

President's Day painting: Robson #14

Mount Robson #14
11x14, canvas
Acrylic painting by Annette Truong
Santa Cruz, CA
2016

This is #14 in my Mount Robson series. I am skipping around because I blocked in 17 paintings at once and slowly adding finishing details. I enjoy bright colors and evoking cakes and quilts in my mountain series.

Mount Robson #17

My latest Mount Robson painting, #17.

9x12

Acrylic painting 

by Annette Truong 

Santa Cruz, CA 

2016 

Bottles in the morning light

Bottles in Morning Light
8x10, canvas
Acrylic Painting by Annette Truong
Santa Cruz, CA
2016




These bottles were dug up from the forest behind my house (thrown away by previous residents since the 1950's). The morning light made them glow which I tried to capture with this under painting.

Mount Robson #16

Mount Robson #16
9x12, canvas
Acrylic painting by Annette Truong
Santa Cruz, CA
2016

Heading into the home stretch on this one. Some of the striations need a little defining, some shading tweaked.

Medieval art: map with compass rose

Map in the style of Piri Reis
by Annette Truong
Santa Cruz, CA
2016

Some of my art time I devote to making medieval maps. Gouache, composition leaf, and ink on vellum.

Work in progress: Robson #4

Work in progress: Mount Robson #4. This painting will be similar to the birds-eye-view of my Love Apple Farm series. It will focus on the Berg Lake Trail which flanks Mount Robson on the west.

Detail, Mount Robson #4 by Annette Truong
11x14, acrylics on canvas

Love AppleFarm #5

I painted this Love AppleFarm folk art painting while I was visiting my sisters in Edmonton, Alberta. It is in the private collection of my sister Penny.

Love Apple Farm #5 by Annette Truong
8x10, acrylics on canvas

Putting some trees in

Mount Robson work in progress
Acrylic painting by Annette Truong
Santa Cruz, CA
2016

This Robson painting is in progress, tonight I worked on the row of trees in front of the mountain. Acrylics on canvas board.