Building "Pop"
Many people ask me, "How do you start a painting?" So, I took photographs every hour or so while painting this. I hope you enjoy the progression.
The paintings and ruminations of Patty Bailey Sheets
"Apricot" my friend and muse
My beautiful companion of eighteen years died about three weeks ago. I painted her so many times because she was so beautiful. She was one of those cats that always wanted to be wherever I was. If I were painting in my studio, she was there in her window shelf. If I went downstairs to get something to drink, she followed. She had a wonderful long cat life and she will be missed. 
Still life quick sketch
Like most, our studio often hires models for quick sketch life drawing to improve our drawing skills and force ourselves to not belabor things. We decided that it was such a fantastic thing for drawing that we would try it with painting still life. We would set up a super simple still life, set the timer for 30 or 45 minutes and paint as fast as we could do accurately. Here is one of the resulting paintings.
"Red Delicious" 8" x 9 1/2"
"Red Bodice"
What was she thinking? I have no idea, and I wish now that I had asked. A group of artists had hired Hope to pose and we were painting in Susan Lyon's studio in King, NC. Hope sat so still and silently that at times we would forget that she was not a still life. Behind her on the wall is a profile of Hope that Scott Burdick had done another time we were painting. These were wonderful afternoons painting a portrait from life in such good company. Sometimes talking and sharing and at others in companionable silence. I call this painting "Red Bodice."
"Red Bodice" 20" x 16"
Recent Works
