Travel Sketchbook Flip
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Sandi Hester
Paintings by Sandi Hester
Tag: oil
January 14, 2019
NEW YouTube Video! 2019 Studio Update
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December 31, 2018
Window Christmas Decorating
Quick little video of me decorating for Christmas. Hope you all had a great one! More videos to come in the new year so make sure to follow and subscribe. Instagram (@sandigrady1) and my youtube channel are where you will likely see videos first so make sure to subscribe in those places to get update first. See you in the new year!
December 10, 2018
VIDEO! Sketchbook Ideas
I did a video on a sketchbook I did for a friend as a gift for Christmas – check it out to get some good ideas for a sketchbook, to see a little bit of what is in this sketchbook and to see my totally messy studio (it’s that time of year that the studio stays looking like it exploded). Hope you enjoy it and expect to see more videos coming – I plan to do more videos in the upcoming year and hope it will be a more common feature on my blog, youtube channel, and instagram (@sandigrady1). Come find me on those other avenues and subscribe to get updates of new things.
August 7, 2018
New from the Old
I feel like I haven’t had much time in the studio in months and I’m locking myself in the studio this week! I wanted to give myself some exercises instead of just jumping into a painting – I need some warming up. So I’m doing value studies and decided to take some of my old paintings and rework them. I played around with some old paintings on my editing program and put filters on some of them – changing not only the colors but changing the values also and I’m painting from those filtered pictures of old paintings (does that make sense???!!). Here’s the first one I did below: 1st pic is my new painting, 2nd pic is the filtered picture I painted from, and the last pic is of my old original painting. I’m going to do this with some more paintings too and if they turn out I will share them with you.
Sandi Hester, 9×12 oil
Altered pic of old painting, Sandi Hester oil
2013 oil painting by Sandi Hester, 7×11
June 9, 2018
Lemon With Your Tea
Sandi Hester, oil
April 27, 2018
Portrait
Oil painting from previous sketch.
April 11, 2018
Oil Pastel Sketches
REALLY enjoying these oil pastels to sketch with!
March 29, 2018
Little Artists in My Studio
Hannah and Macy are two of my nieces and we have done many art lessons over the years and they continue to amaze me. Today Hannah (oldest) had her first oil painting lesson and Macy worked in watercolor and gouache. We started the day off by going to a local nursery to pick out flowers for our still life (they found out that that’s a hard decision to make!). We covered a ton today – value, color, composition, color mixing, texture, and lots more. They killed it! We were ALL exhausted! Hannah kept taking breaks and saying she needed to stretch 🙂 – that’s me all day long (stretching and working out sore muscles from standing and painting – you didn’t know it was so taxing did you?!).
Hannah’s oil
Macy’s watercolor
Here’s a quick video of them in action – there was serious concentration going on in this studio today – no playing around – they were serious artists today. We did take Cooper (my dog) breaks though – always nice to have a studio dog to love on when you need to take a break from painting!
March 15, 2018
African Women And Children
Oil by Sandi Hester
A theme I return to over and over and I have painted this in every medium I’ve ever tried. This one went to a new home this week. I’m honored to have this painting hanging in my dear friend’s home.
Sandi Hester 