Here is a set of photos showing my process to do a dog portrait. I may not always work this way, but this is how I am approaching this one. I may have to do two posts to handle all the shots. Some photoshopping was done on the first one, BTW
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My newest thing, also I did a time-lapse video of the whole thing from start to finish on FaceBook for those who want to watch paint dry, so to speak....
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A commission I am working on, it may be done. The paint isn’t even quite dry yet, and acrylics dry pretty fast!
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During the quarantine I more or less decided that I shouldn’t expect to be too optimistic about selling anything, period.
Well, that was not to be the case. Through various connections, and by that I mean a lot of different means, I was able to sell 8 different pieces of art. This one was purchased from someone in Georgia who had moved away from my area and saw another painting posted by somebody on Google. It was in the photo selections of a Church in Rocky Hill, NJ. Somebody I don’t know posted a photo of my painting on Google for Rocky Hill Reformed Church. That is how this person hunted me down, and then also bought this ship painting! -
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This is the painting for day two. From the best of my recollection, I tried to show how it looked driving along a highway from Charleston, South Carolina to Bluffton, SC as I drove, the boredom became exhilarating with the flaming sunset. Here’s the best I could remember.
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Not sure what happened with my post, but here goes again.
This is the last of my “one painting a day sky scapes”.
I added some water and maybe a sailboat, for the topping.
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RE: Railroad Photography
@Dr-GO said in Railroad Photography:
@BigDub said in Railroad Photography:
@Dale-Proctor
These are great, some of which could be a nice challenge for me to paint. I love them. The older the better, of course.The question is: Are you trained in painting trains?
You may question my training, but not my motives. My motives are sane, not loco motives.
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The Hopewell, NJ train station, where our community band does about 4 concerts each summer, weather permitting.
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Here are some shots of a long abandoned, historic train station not 10 minutes from my home. Here you see the north bound side and south bound side. The north bound station is where the tracks are on the right side of the picture. This is Belle Meade, New Jersey. One could easily commute in comfort and without stress to NYC inside an hour from here. Parking was free, too.
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Well, here's something I just completed. You might like this one, DrGO?
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This was beside the track as my wife and I travelled from New York City to Montreal, Canada. Nice looking engine.
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@Dr-GO said in Railroad Photography:
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Saying: thank you "veery" much, to Veery.
OK... Thanks for keeping me on track. Thank God I have only a one track mind... much easier to accomplish.
At least you can N gauge!
OH! (on a smaller scale and with dyslexia)
HO man, sorry to hear that.
More like an O man. My dad had an O gauge set up in our basement when I was a kid. I mean it was our entire basement. He had mountains, lakes, bridges, houses, churches, businesses, roadways with cars, farms with animals... Had a blast running them with Dad. We had electronic controlled switches so could move trains between rail patterns. Really cool way to bring Father and Son together!
I think you would really enjoy this place in nearby FLemington, NJ. It is called Northlandz. It has thousands of ( to scale ) miles of track and hundreds of trains all synchronized and in lifelike settings. We took our grandson there a couple of years ago for his 4th? Birthday. Here are some of the settings.
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RE: A little humour
I spotted an albino Dalmation on my walk this morning.
It was the least I could do.
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How can you tell the conductor is looking at you?
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Completed another one you might like.....this one also of the Lambertville New Hope Bridge over the Delaware River connecting NJ to PA.
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Two old fellers met down town and were catching up since they hadn't seen each other for some time.
One says, yeah, I got a hearing aid and it is so great! State of the art technology it is so good I hear things I was missing for so long now.
Wow, says the other. What kind is it?9:30.
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Sven, was caught in a hailstorm while driving his Saab home from work. It was pretty bad, and looked like the dents were going to be permanent. He took it to a repair shop and to his surprise, the repair man said, “you can fix those dents yourself, you know. Just blow really hard into the tailpipe and they’ll pop right out”
Ole happened to be passing by Sven's house the next day and saw Sven “fixing” his dents.
“WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO, SVEN?”
Sven told him about the repair man’s kind advice.
“Oh, Sven, he was really playing a cruel trick on you. You have to close all the windows first!” -
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I wouldn’t say I do a great deal of flying, but with that being said, here are some things I have heard:
When I asked for a coffee, “I'm sorry, we are out of lids so the FTA won’t allow us to serve it”
Later I asked a real airline flight attendant if this was a real thing, and she said, “what??? I NEVER HEARD OF SUCH A THING”
Another time I asked how could I report that someone asked me to transport something for them without my knowledge if I would have no knowledge of it?
“That’s why we have to make that announcement”, they said.
On another flight, an announcement was made, “please feel free to hesitate to ask if you need anything”