#30paintingsin30days

Just barely finished my last painting. Now I have a lot more I want to try – I am liking this size as a way to not have such a giant commitment, and also intend to make some more acrylics of all sizes! Once I catch up on my life, I’ll clean up the ones that need it and put them all on my website.

My friend Brad Reyes (Reyes Fine Art) signed up for this challenge and I took a while deciding whether I could hack it or no. My paintings usually take between 1 and 3 months, so this is going to be a stretch, for sure. I’m starting late, so one of these days I will have to paint two paintings in a day to catch up.

Day 30: Nocturne, Pittsfield Vermont Watercolor 10″ x 15″

_DSC5379 — Day 29: Nocturne, Pittsfield, Vermont (WIP) Watercolor 10″ x 15″ Turns out this is a two day painting after all; I’ll finish tomorrow

Day 28: Sunrise, Pt. Reyes Acrylic & Colored Pencil 11″ x 14″

dawn — Day 27: Dawn, Turquoise Trail Watercolor 8″ x 12″

vermont — Day 26: Early Fall, Vermont Watercolor 9 1/2″ x 13″ It’s a LOT harder to bullshit your way through a watercolor in one day!

Day 25: Rainstorm, Chassahowitzka River Acrylic 11″ x 14″

Nocturne, Jonesboro Alabama — Day 23 & 24: Nocturne, Jonesboro, Alabama Acrylic & Colored Pencil 11″ x 14″

canyon road — Day 21 & 22: Canyon Road Nocturne Acrylic & Colored Pencil 11″ x 14″ (It took me a while to get back into things)

Day 20: More real world work; looks like this will be happening for a while now…

Day 19: conference calls all day, so no painting!

Dawn, madrid — Day 18: Dawn, Madrid New Mexico Acrylic & Colored Pencil 11″ x 14″

Day 17: I was asked to contribute to a commercial project today, which took too much time to allow me to finish. Sorry!

Day 16: Laguna Mesa, Chama River Canyon Acrylic 11″ x 14″

sunset 0 — Day 15: Sunset, Northern New Mexico Acrylic 11″ x 14″

oak creek1 — Day 14: West Fork, Oak Creek Acrylic & Colored Pencil 11″ x 14″

Day 13: No painting yet, but I’m feeling a little better!

Day 12: Another day horizontal…

Day 11: Sorry, Still too sick to paint!

Day 10: Sorry, I’ve been too sick to work today!

early am chassahowitzka — Day 9: Early Morning, Chassahowitzka River Acrylic 11″ x 14″

Day 8: Chassahowitzka River Acrylic & Colored Pencil 11″ x 14

baird creek — Day 7: Sunrise, Baird Creek Acrylic & Colored Pencil 11″ x

early morning baird creek2 — Day 6: Early Morning, Baird Creek Acrylic 11″ x 14″ (This was not perhaps the smartest scene to try and paint in a day, especially with a bad cold.

_DSC5338 — Day 5: Night Falling, Bon Tempe Lake Acrylic 12″ x 16

_DSC5333 — Day 4: Dawn on Red River Acrylic 11″ 14″

_DSC5329 — Day 3: Morning on Chama River Acrylic 11″ x 14

_DSC5327 — Day 2: Rio Grande at Morning. This is an acrylic, and a little smaller, 11″ x 14″. As I catch up, I’ll do some more watercolors…

Day 1: Here’s the first one, a (rough) watercolor nocturne of the little town of Estancia, NM 11″ x 14″

5 thoughts on “#30paintingsin30days”

Sheila Marie Delgado

Love that sky!

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January 3, 2016 at 6:59 pm Reply
1. jonathankeeton
  
  thanks!
  
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  January 3, 2016 at 11:07 pm Reply
P Coleman

Chess and Scrabble are both board games I used too strategically ‘over-think’, and invariably took too long ( while annoying cohorts). Boon companions finally convinced me to embrace the spontaneity. I am in favor of your 30-day adventure. Bon-voyage.

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January 8, 2016 at 2:44 am Reply
cecil touchon

Wow! Those are awesome Jonathan!!! Love Days 5, 14, 16!

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January 19, 2016 at 5:47 pm Reply
1. jonathankeeton
  
  thanks Cecil!!!!!!
  
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  January 20, 2016 at 5:08 am Reply