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Another day, another painting..

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.

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.

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!

@Kehaulani said in Artist on BOARD:

Isn't the painting missing the cards and poker chips?

Oh, no. This one is an original. I couldn’t very well copy, now, could I?

@GeorgeB

Thanks, George. I appreciate that very much.

A commission I am working on, it may be done. The paint isn’t even quite dry yet, and acrylics dry pretty fast!

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....

@Kehaulani said in Artist on BOARD:

You said your painting was in the Cochran. There's a Cochran Museum in Austin.

Haha. Pardonne moi. I hadn’t heard of that museum. No, the Cochrans are friends who commissioned me to do the painting in question. They live near me as well, in NJ.

@Kehaulani said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub said in Artist on BOARD:

@Kehaulani said in Artist on BOARD:

That is awesome. What size is it?

I think it is 20”x30”. It is across town in another home, the Cochran's, though....

Are you in Austin?

I'm in NJ. Hillsborough. Central Jersey. What gave you the impression I was in Austin?

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.

@Kehaulani said in Artist on BOARD:

That is awesome. What size is it?

I think it is 20”x30”. It is across town in another home, the Cochran's, though....

I appreciate that comment, Kehaulani. Here is another I don’t believe I have shown here yet,

At the risk of ruining it, I will not add any more to this one.
( Believe it or not there are changes from the previous stage I showed ) done. Put the fork in it now. I hope they don’t ask for any more details. The “customers” have not seen even the slightest hint of this painting yet.

@GeorgeB said in Moderator in hospital:

@barliman2001

So sorry I bothered you about that BigDub lockout thing. Get well soon !

OF course-
Your health is number one priority....I didn’t know either.

@Dr-GO
Thanks for the encouragement. But.......I might actually do a little tweaking on it yet. I have the time...I see some things....

Here are some subtle finishing touches. I think I may be done with it, but I will wait a while to decide...

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

@Kehaulani

I would say I am a bit on the unconventional style. Some bits and pieces here and there, but a lot of things that I have discovered maybe by trial and error.....and sometimes accidentally!
I will do some of the palette knife stuff, but sometimes it needs a little help, in my opinion through other means, a brush sweeping lightly past, or a slightly wet brush to soften places. or even my finger, lots of times. This is acrylic paint, though. Did you know that?

I haven’t shown you all this one yet........