16x20"
oil on canvas
sold
Say hello to Winston, another commission from the past. I slapped on the latex today and did my best June Cleaver imitation, organizing and making nice in both the store room and the studio. Turned my easel around to face the other way and it felt like a new place! No time to paint, but looking forward to tomorrow in my tidy little space.
16x20" each
oil on canvas
sold
Also sold separately
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I thought it might be a good idea to post the trampoline paintings together to see how they look. It's funny, my graphic design spidey sense keeps chirping away. My former boss keeps whispering in my ear, no—actually, shouting in my ear...why is there a shadow on only one?..why aren't they all the same size?...why are two in mid-air and one not? All valid questions to which I answer, because that's how they were done. Scram!
16x20"
oil on canvas
sold
This is the last of the trampoline series, in this incarnation anyway. I loved painting them, but I don't think they have the impact on the white canvas that I was looking for. I'm definitely into painting more and more figures but I don't think these are the "fit" I was envisioning. Still I like them and hope you do too.
I would like to proudly announce the successful completion of repairs on my website submission form! It woiks! Happily, now whenever anyone fills out the submission form, the email will actually reach me! What a concept!
16x20"
oil on canvas
sold
A three day rest helped the hammy which means I'm hobbling less. Hoping to post a new piece tomorrow. This is Cody, another previous commission.
Thinking of making the move downstairs tomorrow. Also thinking I'm making way too much out of the whole thing. But hey, why not add yet another layer of "voice noise" to my burgeoning collection of negative head tapes. Or would they be CDs now? Careful dear, you'll be running about with sage bundles and chanting incantations before long.
I know what's up, I've read my self-help books. I had a nice couple of days there, with the bugs and a few other paintings and now feel the need to pay for my creative windfall with a healthy helping of dismal depression. Note how the word healthy illuminates the negative in the previous sentence. It's starting isn't it.
12x12"
oil on canvas
sold
Another past commission. Had a mishap and brutalized my hamstring. Ouch! Good thing I paint sitting down.
Done at least two years ago, it was the last in a series of Christmas commissions. I'd been painting non-stop for about a month and a half and when I finished it I was surprised by the looseness and spontaneity of it. Now that I'm daily painting I understand why. Seems fairly obvious, but I'm only seeing it now. Silly.
16x20"
oil on canvas
sold
I had such great plans today. Finish the last in the trampoline series, continue work on a commission, re-arrange the store room, tidy up the studio for an eventual move back downstairs and prepare paintings for shipping. All very important tasks. I am, after all, a professional. Then the doorbell rang, or rather the FedEx dude knocked. My new amp is here. I'm done for the day. Which leads me to the...
posting of another previous commission. This guy's name is Otis. I really wish I had this to do over again, especially now that I'm more comfortable with oils. I should, since I still have the reference photo. It'd be interesting to see how I would approach this after a year of somewhat daily painting.
