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.

Here are the reference photos I started with

The small acrylic sketch I did incorporated a lot of magenta and showed me some changes I wanted to make in the full-size painting.

I'd covered the 3D canvas with interference gold (Golden acrylics) as a base

Maybe I should have left it alone here ... what do you think?

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.