Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2013
I had a wonderful opening for my one woman show “Stampede” this last Saturday, October 5th 2013 in The Corner Gallery at the Huntington Beach Central Library. The gallery is a beautiful room with two walls of floor to ceiling windows overlooking a plumeria garden, pond and a beautiful park. The light from the skylight inside the gallery lights up …
“Surprise! (Somebody has some explaining to do.)” Wildlife Art by: Laura Curtin The new painting is here and it has a long name. The name is fitting since it took me a long time to paint this one. There is a fun story how this pink pachyderm painting got it’s name. I paint with the Thursday morning painting class and …
I know the title of this blog is how to paint… planning but it’s really about how to keep painting when the plan goes badly. I get an idea in my head for a new painting and it develops until I find source material to fit my idea. When I started the pink elephant painting I had an idea of …
I think it was the fog. Maybe it was just too early in the morning to be up. It was the third day of the safari and I hadn’t slept very well since arriving in Africa. It had been so hot during the day and on through the night. That strange third morning the fog set in on the …
I have three paintings I painted specifically for the Torrit Grey painting Contest. Two of the paintings, “Torrit the Tiger” and “Ghost in Torrit Woods” are very popular and get a lot of attention. “New Prince of the Jungle” may not be as well known as the other two but I was trying to accomplish the opposite light-dark quality in …
How To Paint Rocks doesn’t sound like wildlife art but animal habitats are full of rocks and plants. I’ve painted a lot of rocks in my art career and not all of them looked like rocks to me. I’ve painted baked potato rocks, rocks that look like I dropped my ice cream cone on the ground, flat shapeless rocks and …
I painted this beautiful puppy for a friend. I wish I knew the breed of this little guy. I do know that he is trained to visit hospital patients and help with their mood and recovery. If this pup came to my room I know I’d be instantly better. I did a detailed drawing of Boogie and started my painting …
The Eagle, majestic bird of prey, symbolic inspiration to artists, religions and organizations. I began searching for eagle reference materials at my brothers book store early in December of 2012. There are so many photos, drawings, paintings and writings about eagles. I was confronted with countless artistic possibilities of eagles living in the natural world. My brain was overwhelmed with …
My name is Laura Curtin and I am a wildlife artist from Southern California. Working predominately in oils I create paintings to make people smile. Every painting is a place I would like to be. Although the habitat is true to the subject the animals place in the painting is from my imagination. I paint because I can and I …
I started using my cell phone camera for taking photos of my paintings as I paint and I have a lot of pictures of paintings in the making. I thought it might be fun to do a few short articles on How To, paint whatever. This Post is about feathers. I’m finishing up a painting of eagles resting in a …
