Expressions of Italy Show

Dusk (click on image to enlarge) Well, it is done I hauled the pieces to the Village Gallery this morning. We were to have 10 to 12 each so I took 14 pieces to let them decide which ones they wanted, and they ended up using all 14 of them. They both had some wonderful work, so I think it will be a very nice show.  We also [...]

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Plein air paintings from Tuscany “A sea of yellow”

Well, here are some of the acrylic on canvas pieces that I did. Please forgive the poor quality of my digital photographs of the pieces as these are not stretched yet. I just took some quick shots of them and cropped the images. They have a wrinkly appearance and you can probably see some fold marks. This is from the pieces being rolled up like [...]

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painting over a painting (the process)

        (on the easel)           I wanted to show you this painting which I think I will title directions… I told you how I like to paint over paintings so I decided to share this process with you. The first image is the old piece before I began painting over it. I think you can get an idea it was a [...]

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New Tuscany Paintings

Hello all…sorry I have not been on here the last few days. Time is slipping away and before you know it I will be leaving for Italy. Here are two of the paintings I have been working on. These are very close to being finished. They are acrylic on canvas. One of the pictures of [...]

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six paintings in process

                                             (click on images to enlarge)      Hello all…I painted these yesterday and as you can see they are still in process…I hesitated about putting them on here…but I wanted to share the process with you.      Some of them are close to being finished and some have a long way to go….like curb shave.  His head is way [...]

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Three Pieces Submitted

Well, I wiped out my earlier post then I tried to redo it…that was not very smart. So now I am going to attempt to redo what I just did…good grief. Connections I Untitled The Journey (click on images to enlarge) Untitled and The Journey are framed…Connections is a wrapped canvas. The one piece is [...]

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Three pieces submitted….part II

   I ended up submitting all three. I decided why not..I was there anyway, and worse case it is juried out…such is art.   I almost didn’t submit connections…I don’t think that I am finished with it. I just may end up putting color into it. Sometimes I will go back into things after a show…even when a piece wins something…which [...]

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Tactile painting

The Journey (click on image to enlarge) I started this piece a while back…today I went back into it. Now it is close to being finished so I decided to go ahead and post it. This is what I will submit for the tactile show. Not sure if you can tell but it is very [...]

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Painting today

   Hello all…once again I have been remiss in writing. When I started this blog I thought I would be able to write something every day…of course, that was somewhat unrealistic.  Not only do things happen in life…but sometimes I don’t want to write just to be writing. That is a waste of time for you and me. [...]

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Selecting Photos to paint

No painting today :~(. I ended up going through tons of pictures that I took last year in Italy. I selected about fifteen, and from those I will paint some new pieces. I hope to paint a few along the lines of this one that is different than most on my web site (Landscape/Tuscany gallery). [...]

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