Wednesday, March 06, 2024
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Using Watercolors En Plein Air
Monday, February 12, 2024
Westward Ho! Sculpture at Yeatman's Cove in Cincinnati
Ever since I moved to Cincinnati, I've loved this statue downtown along Yeatman's Cove titled "Westward Ho!" Here's the latest on 12" x 12" canvas painted in oils with knives. I've ordered a dark brown floater frame to try with this. Once the paint dries, I have just a few more things I want to do with it before putting it out for sale at Final Friday March 29 at the Pendleton Art Center in Cincinnati. I'm also going to see what it looks like as a 20" x 20" giclee print.
I had to stop for a while after starting this on Feb 12 because the paint was so wet I needed to give it some time to dry before working on it more.
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Florida Home Portrait - Winter 2021 before my surgery
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Hometown on the Loveland Bike Trail
Friday, August 02, 2019
3D canvas
I didn't expect to work on this today, much less finish it, but I think I did! My friend gave me this "3D canvas," which I guess is just another word for "gallery wrapped" and it was the right size and format to paint a portrait of her home so that's what I did.
Her gift actually did a lot for me in that I have never intentionally painted 3D before, although I have gallery-wrapped flat canvases and then had to paint the sides after the fact. The blessing of this experience is figuring out how to handle gallery-wrapping for canvas prints of my Happy Cincinnati paintings. I have lots of options -- crop in on the original and wrap part of it, paint the sides after the print has been wrapped.
See the original in my studio at the Pendleton Art Center this Final Friday August 30th, 2019 from 6-10p at 1310 Pendleton St. Cincinnati OH 45202. I re-learned a couple more things today ... I think I paint better without music (just quiet) and standing up vs. sitting down.
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Watercolor portrait 18" x 24"
Watercolor portrait 14 x 24"
This one was commissioned as a gift for a family member and, when learning the pine tree to the left of the home had once been the homeowners' Christmas tree, I composed the painting so that a photo of it could easily be transformed into Christmas cards via digital photography.