Missy Cochran - Artist

02/27/2018

What conclusions does this fact lead you to? That painting is a useless career choice? That some people pay ridiculous $$ for art? It reinforces to me the need to assume value in every person even if it isn't obvious to society. I would love to hear any other thoughts floating around out there. My husband would say that the obvious answer is (b) that people pay way too much 💰 for art while snickering!

02/24/2018

One of 12 photo references for the series of paintings I am working on. I call it "desert in the fall".

02/06/2018

This painting "Red Winter Berries" with twigs is the first recent oil painting I have been able to finish in one day. I am inspired by the daily painting movement, but never want to let a painting be finished because I can see too many imperfections I want to fix. I am not sure why I fixate on perfection because I don't actually like perfect paintings on my own wall. I repeatedly reminded myself of this fact at the end of the day when I could call it "Red Winter Berries" finished or go back a few days later and work on it more.

I didn't realize that because of the yellow ochre underwash, I would get the look of an Instagram filter on the whole painting. That was a happy accident and fun effect. Now I wonder how the same painting would look with a blue underwash.

8x8 inches

01/25/2018

Mel made an awesome time lapse video painting her son, Michael:

Melanie loves painting her children and she paints her son's smile with ice cream all over his chin. This time lapse video shows her process while she explai...

01/10/2018

An abstract painting I made from my little nephew's drawing.

Time lapse video: https://youtu.be/PbO7EKnNNJw.
Blog entry: http://bit.ly/2mhKn8b

01/02/2018

I have this amazing book, “Alla Prima II” by the brilliant artist, Richard Schmid. I sped through it once telling myself I would read it again after I had finished it. That didn’t happen because I got busy painting and reading other art books. Because this is an expensive art book (over $100), I thought that YouTube video watchers my appreciate an in depth book review and that would get me reading it again as well. My plan is to break down each chapter and make a video about my favorite highlights once I have re-read the chapter and include paintings from that chapter in the video. This is fun for me because it seems like I am not having to read alone. Anyway, for the first chapter, I did it in two parts, and I made a little playlist for these videos to collect on the ole YouTube channel, but I will post them here too.




https://youtu.be/V_eoIBq1XRU

Finishing Chapter 1 of Richard Schmid's "Alla Prima II", this in depth book review goes into detail explaining what each chapter is about and includes sharin...

01/02/2018

All finished...finally :)

12/12/2017

An experimental art journal entry in video format. Analyzing my "favorite art" Pinterest board and starting a new painting.

Art journal table of contents -- 2:33 - Analyzing favorite art on Pinterest 4:09 - Face washing discovery 5:37 - The first hour of a new painting of a womans portrait profile with hair flowers ==================================================== In the first segment, I analyze my Pinterest board of?...

12/06/2017

Latest abstract with leftover paint.

11/30/2017

Short and sweet. Here are last weeks berries and I am almost done with my little YouTube tutorial which I will post about it next week. Mel and I, although distracted with holidays, are still brainstorming and evolving the channel concept.

Short and sweet. Here are last weeks berries and I am almost done with my little YouTube tutorial which I will post about it next week. Mel and I, although distracted with holidays, are still bra…

11/15/2017

What do I have to share this week? Mel produced a fun, impressionistic painting experimenting with thinned oil paint producing gloopy brush strokes. Here are a few of her words about the project: "I'm Back!! So I'm finally feeling 100% better, and inspired to try a new style. While I've enjoyed everything I've done so far, I can't say that I'd hang them in my house and have them fit my style, if you know what I mean. [ 335 more words ]

What do I have to share this week? Mel produced a fun, impressionistic painting experimenting with thinned oil paint producing gloopy brush strokes. Here are a few of her words about the project:…