VIOLIN CROPPED

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Thought I'd do a couple of these cropped shots. Nice warm colors for cold winter days.

VIOLIN SCROLL

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Violins are a work of art by themselves.This carved scroll makes a nice painting if I do say so myself!

As of thursday Night

 

Thursday got me a little farther down the road on this piece but it's at the stage where I'm not sure if it got better or worse. When a painting is at this place there are good things about it that need to be left alone while other parts are not right yet. trouble is... I become tentative as to what to do to keep moving forward. Earlier on in the life of a painting you can just plunge in and not worry about losing ground. But later you feel the need to be cautious. Caution makes for non creative brushwork.  I need to let this one sit for a while. Rothko sometimes sat and pondered a piece for hours and days before stepping up with that one perfect stroke that completed it. Rothko I'm not. But I understand how he felt about the process. 

I have another piece to move on to so I think I'll work on it for a while. 

The kids are home for xmas and lots of distractions now. All good ones! So, who knows if I'll get anything done for the next few days?

I made some progress yesterday (wed.) on this one. It's coming together slowly. The ocean and sky need a lot of attention now but the figures and most of the wet sand area are close to what I want. I plan to take another stab at it today..........

tuesday's progress

So.... after a few days work this was what I had at the end of Tuesday. I had a hard time pulling it together .....mostly because I have an aversion to pink. And, as I have said before, I don't like the stereotypical sunsets with silhouettes. But I pressed on and started to make real progress. Had some trouble with the figure on the right. Changed it a couple times and now I think it's workable. I'll post again when I make something of this. If you scroll down you will see an earlier post showing how this painting began.
Thanks for looking.

WINTER PASTIME

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Here's a sketch I did a couple days ago. Sort of a warm up for the larger night digging paintings I started.

works in progress

Thought you might like to see what I'm working on. Good clam tides last week later in the evening. These two are about 20 x28" acrylic on linen. this is the 2nd day on both of them. the figures are starting to work ...though parts are still just sketched in with charcoal.

CUP O' JO

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Darn cold these days. Had to spend a lot of time getting a fire going in the studio today...... green wood from our pine tree that blew down in the last wind storm doesn't burn well. But after a couple hours it started taking the chill off. This seemed to warm me up a little too. A hot cup of coffee.

PRETTY BIRD

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MOO

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COW SPOTTING

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Moooooving on to bovine creations now. OK.... so that's lame. Barnyard humor! I 'm doing a couple of these cow paintings. I like to find the colors in the white areas.

Watermelon Sliced

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Balancing Act

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 Chickadees...again. Who can resist? These guys are all over the place here and pretty much year 'round.

TOWHEE

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I see these towhees once in a while around our house. Mostly they stay inland a little but sometimes they venture out to the beach. I think they are cool! Red eyes! yep really!  Red eyes!
Below is what it looks like in a nice frame

DRIFTNG AWAY

22x30" OIL ON LINEN

That's it!  I'm done with this one. Any more would be pointless. I think it does what I wanted it to do.

what happened this week

This began as a completely different painting. I struggled 2 days on it and in the end wiped it all away. After pacing around  the wiped surface and squinting at it for a day or so I finally started this and made significant progress the first couple days. Now it is at the stage where it is almost there but I can't figure out what it  needs. I've been swiping at it all day today as I cleaned out and rearranged the shop/studio. It's darn close to done but......
 It's oil on linen and around 22"x30" like the last two.