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A very Happy Easter to all.
Here is a little thing I did 40 years ago, on a nice piece of birch plywood. Painted straight on the plywood with a little thinned down brown around the border to act as a stain.

It might be about time I show a new one, maybe?
I have been bouncing this one around in my head for some time but when it came down to it I got right at it.

Someone stole the wheels from a patrol car. Police are pursuing the perpetrator tirelessly.

Vandals made hole in nudist colony fence. Police are looking into it.

Unknown suspect broke into the police precinct headquarters and stole all the toilets. Investigators have nothing to go on.

Thieves broke into the Mexican Phone Company and stole an undisclosed amount of equipment, Taco Bell reports.

The current Commision I am working on. Here is a series of shots showing the progression of what steps I go through, though this isn’t necessarily the same for every painting I do. This one, however is being done this way. There were several more drawings to determine how I wanted to lay out the design and positioning of everything.

Hunting DOG: FOR SALE.

Some snowy scenes. Some you may have seen some scenes you may not have scene......

They have been having a little bear trouble in Idaho's National forest lately. Warnings were issued, posters were distributed saying:

BE EXTRA CAUTIOUS WHILE HIKING IN THE FOREST. WEAR BELLS AND CARRY PEPPER SPRAY FOR PROTECTION. MAKE NOISE. IF THEY CAN AVOID YOU WITHOUT BEING SURPRISED THEY MOST LIKELY WILL LEAVE YOU ALONE. BLACK BEAR SKAT (feces ) IS SMALL, DARK, AND ROUND. IT MAY CONTAIN BERRY SEEDS OR SQUIRREL FUR.
GRIZZLY BEAR SKAT MAY CONTAIN BELLS AND SMELL LIKE PEPPER SPRAY.

Not trying to pass this off as an original, but I noticed that I never showed this "copy" I had done of my favorite western artist's painting, "A Dash For The Timber". I mainly did it to see if I could do it, and it will never be sold or passed off as an original by myself. That being said, I was pretty pleased with the result.
The original painting by Frederic Remington was 48”x89” ( I think )
Like a mural size. Mine is 10”x20” I might have been wiser to make it a little bigger for the details, but this is what I decided.

Last Sunday, beautiful sunny, warm day in my neck of the woods, wife and I took a drive into PA specifically for this barn. A long time favorite of mine in Solebury Township, Bucks County. There are so many stone buildings in Pa that I truly admire. Here is the finished piece.

And another thing. Every time I play for memory the notes I decide upon don't seem to match up with the notes everyone else in my section seem to be playing. What's wrong with those people?

Sharing my artwork with High School students at Lawrence, NJ High School. I have no family connections there, but a good friend is an art teacher there and invited me to visit. I had something set up so that they could have hands on fun actually painting a version of my own work, which was on the easel in front of them. Other paintings are scattered around as well. They were fully involved!

@bodine said in Recording yourself during this lay off:

Re: Staying in top playing shape post band shutdown

I kept up the practicing for a couple of months then things started to slide. I was able to get a couple of jazz gigs so I learned a few new tunes and practiced a lot for several weeks. The gigs went very well. Hard to stay motivated after that for sure. I do enjoy downloading play along tracks, importing them into my recording program, then recording myself on aa separate track. Started doing this a lot more since Covid and things have really improved, intonation, time, right notes!! etc. Fu=ind fun ways to try new things, you have lots of time...

I do the same thing myself. It is more fun for me and motivating, for sure. I am not a pro, nor do I have to answer to anyone who might tell me, “ you should be doing this, or that, or long tones, or short loud tones, or unpleasant tones”, you get my point, right? Here is a sample of a track. I added bass, guitar and light percussion with the use of GarageBand on my digital keyboard.

#SoundCloud? #np https://soundcloud.com/bigdub-3/o-little-town-of-bethlehem

Ticket prices were higher this year for the balloon festival due to inflation

@flugelgirl
1914 Frank Holton Revelation. Still in nice shape. Played it a couple of times, belongs to our group, Stone Hill Brass.

I have been doing more small pieces of late and find them to be both challenging and enjoyable. This one is about 11"x14", a farm near my home in Hillsborough, NJ. It may well not be in this condition any longer but that is a big part of why I do like painting subjects like this.

I said I would post no more than one a day, but I think that is even a bit much, so here we are two days later. I'll show some of my paintings from photos taken by my son in law on his various travels with his family.

Here's another one for your observation. This is the West Quoddy Head Lighthouse in Maine, done as a commission for a friend in my town to give to her son, who took the reference pictures. They were very good

@SSmith1226 said in Artist on BOARD:

Time to post another painting of something that perhaps is not a cow. Maybe a sheep or a landscape.

You took the words right out of my mouth....This is a view of the Delaware and Raritan Canal about 5 miles from my home and a place I spent many a day enjoying as a kid. Swimming, canoeing, hiking, even camping out along the towpath

A new challenge I gave myself is to do a different painting each day for maybe a week ( 5 days ). Hey, I'm the one who made it up, right? I might go longer. We'll see. I wanted to concentrate the subject matter to dramatic sky scapes. Here is day one. Yes, I did complete it in one 2 hour session. It’s small.