Below are several of the paintings created during the 30 Day Challenge which I have been putting some finishing touches on. Thanks to the critique group artists for their input. Please visit my website: 
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 Butterfly Girl:  Changing the background color to a complementary one makes her pop more. Adding a little more detail to her hands and her right arm and hand helped with that perspective. 

 Peacock Strut:  Moving the dark tree/rocks to the right and extending the lighter rock behind the peacock and bringing the rock further across the page eliminated the weird angles.  I generally played around with the peacock feathers and body. 

 

Last Leaves of Fall:  Adding an additional leaf cluster at the lower right corner gives me a better composition (rule of threes). 

 



Since the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge I have been discussing with fellow artists about the benefits of doing such a challenge.  I think we will have a few more from Oregon next year participating.  I definitely learned a lot about many of the participants by visiting their blogs and websites after the Challenge.  It gave me a lot of inspiration and ideas on how to improve my blog and website.  Thanks to each of the participants for the encouragement by just posting your art.

I have been working on several of the paintings since the Challenge ended and will post them here.  I let them sit for a few days and then began to see if my favorites could be improved.  Below are the ones I have finished "editing" as Leslie calls it.

 Barbados Day 8 - modified to show the ocean waves and the palm tree (lightest) revised to bring the eye back into the painting to emphasize the sunset colors.

 Day 15 Dragonfly.-- the body was too detailed and more darks needed to be added against the background.


Day 12 Man in New Fedora -- the background was too busy and competed with the man so I had to simplify it by several washes of color and water.New completed paintings from 30 Day Challenge