The wife wanted a landscape so I obliged. Found a cool photo of what I believe is Newfoundland and went to work. Don't know if landscape is really my thing yet. The photo has a bit of a yellow tint but it is more blue.18 x 24" canvas. Painting 6 - 2015. Acrylic.
I wanted to paint a fire escape for some reason and had a 12 x 24" canvas. I didn't put in as much painstaking attention to making perfect lines like in the city picture. I just sort of went at it over a few days. I wanted the fire escape to stand out and have a lighter color beige for the background building. When I got to the point where I could have highlighted the background building with a bolder darker outline I opted not to. I really just liked the way the fire escape popped and the background sort of sat ghost like behind it. Painting 5 - 2015. Acrylic.
I started out wanting to paint a lucid water scene as though someone was trying to look down on the water top of a lake. My wife informed me, much like she did with the city painting that water is another very difficult thing to paint. Yes, yes it is. I was so off track that it just turned into an abstract type of painting. What does it seem to be? You tell me because I have no idea. 30 x 36" canvas, acrylic. Painting 4 - 2015. Update: It bothered me that there was no real focal point to the painting so I added a skeleton to it. The wife hates it now. Pshh... art critics.
So on this painting (my second) I went big and bit off more than I could chew but it was a good learning experience. I started with a 30x40" canvas and traced out building outlines and started painting. It took a long time. Painting the background took long enough but then each little window took time to paint in as well. My wife has had actual painting classes and informed me that architectural paintings are very difficult. Whoops! Without getting a ruler out all the lines were getting off kilter which turns it into a more abstract style I suppose. The street areas I wanted to put water in as I had envisioned downtown NY with flooded streets when hearing about probable sea levels rising in the future. What I had envisioned at start and what actually happened were two very different things. Acrylic. Painting 2 - 2014.
I did a take on some Mexican style tiles. Instead of having the tiles equally spaced like tiles are, I decided to lay the tile design in an overlapping pattern like leaves on water or flowers floating in a pool. It was busy again like the city painting. 24 x 30" canvas, acrylic. Painting 3 - 2014.
My Aunt gave me a painting that she made and didn't like. She asked me to paint over it and told me to paint anything I wanted. I am just getting into acrylic painting and this will be one of the first things I have ever painted. Glad to know that I can paint a cloud and wanted to capture it before I potentially ruin the painting in the next step by putting some orange wine bottles into the picture. |
I screwed up the cloud and the bottles came out Ok. I started trying to highlight the cloud with some pink and messed it up. Kept painting and painting. Sometimes you just have to stop when you paint something you are happy with. Lesson learned. Painting 1, 2014.
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I have a bunch of 8 x 10" canvas that I have started making smaller paintings on. Maybe if one of them turns out well enough I will expand it into a larger painting. So here they are :
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