Author Archives: esther

20 minutes a day – 11/9 to 11/15

  My darling phone’s cracked screen. (Hold up, my blog has emoticons?)       A green forest! Actual forest not that green.       Golf course bunker. I don’t dislike golf.       Not enough time to paint the cactus’ spines.       My cat’s face       OUTLINES! Relapse! […]

20 minutes a day – 11/2 to 11/8

  Face needs work       Chapel of the Chimes, outside       VTA bus stop sign       A park-like place near a CalTrain depot       Tree       Another tree       Several more trees. I’m not good at trees.  

20 minutes a day – 10/26 to 11/1

  Shack       Pug in costume. Pandering to the sister.       Quaker Oatmeal Square. Buying the 2-pack box was a huge life event.       Rock wall.       Rock walls are fun.       Halloween. I don’t like spiders, but the ones indoors here are harmless.

20 minutes a day – 10/19 to 10/25

I do, in fact, have a horse head mask.   A napkin! How exciting.   Ugliest painted cloudy sunset ever   Got the skin town of this guy down within minutes. Yesssss.   And then totally botched it here.   Had some fun doing a character again   My cat resting on a pile of […]

20 minutes a day – 10/12 to 10/18

I tried a hood.   Man outside reading a newspaper   A bowl. Something about the “style” is very familiar, but I don’t know what.   New water bottle! Someone thought it was a thermos and poured hot tea in it the first time around…   Majestic Sea Flap Flap. I lied about not painting […]

20 minutes a day – 10/5 to 10/11

  As action-packed a scene I can do.       Buildings are not actually blue-green. But they look nice.       Lone cloud. Still no rain for this drought-parched state.       Tired of painting real stuff, I decided to take a break and do a sentient slug with a goblet.   […]

20 minutes a day – 9/28 to 10/4

  A box that isn’t that patriotically colored         Unprimed canvas again – though the brown ground was added before I began the 20 minute limit.       The subject is not Justin Bieber, but it bears a slight resemblance and that annoys me.       Nearby hotel     […]

20 minutes a day – 9/21 to 9/27

  Sort of a bookshelf.   Vehicles are difficult. They’re so smooth and shiny.     Apartment on a main road.       Let’s call this abstract, shall we? It’s actually food, but I couldn’t focus on the individual pieces.     The cunning use of flags…     I held food in my […]

20 minutes a day – 9/14 to 9/20

Bus seats at around 11pm. From a photo.       Part of a house. The mistake was not priming the canvas. In my sister’s words, “That’s not a painting…” Also, I accidentally saved the image sideways, and it doesn’t really look much worse turned this way.       Some stately grey building.   […]

20 minutes a day – 9/7 to 9/13

Intro. I’ve been advised to paint for 20 minutes a day on a piece, no more no less. For the past few months, I’ve learned that the tendency to paint what I’m already good at (i.e. animals) is strong, and my self-control is terrible, so I need something to enforce the painting-a-day.   Thus, I […]