Day 8

Moving on to another Downtown Disney location that will be different in the next year. Planet Hollywood, which was somewhat hidden behind a construction wall. This was another place I struggled in past painting attempts. Although I'm not thrilled with the composition this was definitely more of a success than previous attempts. I love the clouds which can be extremely challenging at times. I also struggle with trees from time to time but caught this one fairly well.
Hope you guys like this one.

6x8" Acrylic Planet Hollywood

Day 7

Well I've made it to 7 days of painting the 30 paintings in 30 days challenge. This one was one of my more recent successful plein airs. I had only an hour and a half before starting my part time job. So I went behind the House of Blues and  set up to paint the balloon. Something just clicked this time around. This was my 4th or 5th attempt at painting the ballon, somehow I just knew what to do this time and ended up with one of my favorite for this series.

6x8" Acrylic Downtown Disney Balloon

Day 6

This entry for the 30 paintings challenge was actually used for another challenge . I had to paint an outdoor market for a challenge by James Gurney on his blog Gurney Journey. I chose to paint the Moroccan Market in Epcot. I was fairly pleased with this one hope you guys like it too. I welcome all comments.

6x8" Acrylic Morrocan Market

Day 5

One of my favorite places to paint is where I work part time, Downtown Disney or Disney Speings as it is now called. I want to paint much of it as I remember, before they are finished renovating. This is from the side of House of Blues looking at the Water Tower. The large blue structure is DisneyQuest soon to be made into something else. The Tower has been a struggle for me to capture on canvas. I think this is my third painting attempt. I was pleased with most of this one. 

6x8" Acrylic H.O.B. Tower

Day 4

As the 30 day painting challenge continues my next stop was Disney's Hollywood Studios. One of my favorite spots was one I attempted to paint over a year ago with friends and fellow cigar box artists Christian Slade and Mike Brady.  The Tower of Terror, this scene was different from my first attempt. The 1st time I tried this painting the umbrellas (which used to be red and white) was the best part of my study. This year Disney changed to green and yellowish umbrella which I tried to make my main focus. The tower was silhouetted against a nice somewhat overcast sky. This turned into one of my favorites. I was so into this one I even painted in people which I usually try to avoid.

6x8" Acrylic Tower of Terror 

Day 3

The entrance into Epcot is my choice subject this time. The sky was split into an ominous dark grey and lighter almost calming tones. The contrast of Spaceship Earth was too cool to pass up.

6x8" Acrylic Spaceship Earth

Day 2

While still at Animal Kingdom I went to Dinoland and had to paint this big guy. I really liked the lighting which I struggled to capture. This was one very fun subject. I spent about one and a half hours on it.

Dinoland 6x8" Acrylics