tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70691364413894044202024-03-12T19:46:33.140-07:00Kevin Neal PaintingsRecent WorksAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564336484656123808noreply@blogger.comBlogger135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069136441389404420.post-17943815211817644632016-01-26T02:05:00.003-08:002016-01-26T02:09:37.934-08:00Making a commitment. Going back to the yellow warehouse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I think about painting and drawing every day. Nothing has yet inspired me enough to pick up the pad or brush. I find myself once again trying to boost that inspiration by writing about what I'm thinking. What goes through my head when I think about art?..I just know what I like. I know what draws me in when I see a painting. Immediately, without hesitation, I want to do something like what I see...but nothing and seemingly no one can put an instrument in my hand, sit me down and make me go forward beyond that thought. Maybe I'm trying to create the demons that have inspired so many great artists. Well, I believe that I have started to feel those demons. For the past week, I have started to feel down. Something is nagging at my soul. I haven't figured it out yet.<br />
What I know is this. Last night I went to bed feeling uneasy. I was trying to talk myself into feeling better so I could go to sleep. I need to feel comfort in the quiet moments. The comfort that comes from knowing you have done something good. From knowing that you have made some sort of positive difference in your life lately. For me, it's knowing that I have a gift, and giving that gift of creating something.<br />
I woke up this morning and started looking at episodes of Oregon Art Beat, originally to find a painter who was compared to Mary Cassatt. I remember thinking that this artist didn't merit the comparison because her art was more gestural, and Cassatt although impressionistic had more of a representational style. She was much more refined technically. But that's another topic... As I was looking through the episodes, I landed on a story about Gabe Fernandez. Okay, now I have a base to work with. His style is impressionistic but with enough realism that it satisfies my visual taste.<br />
I went through my own work, and found something that I could see myself painting again. The yellow warehouse in watercolor. I painted this a few years ago. It has promise as a full scale painting. It's a start.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564336484656123808noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069136441389404420.post-31834578922851297942015-05-21T07:27:00.000-07:002015-05-21T07:27:03.224-07:00Its that time of Year: But now there will be More<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Evidently, my desire to post on my blog has slowed to once a year. My last post was of my daughter Grace running last years half-marathon. This post is of my daughter running this years half marathon. I have been creative, but not painting. I sorted through the reasons I have not had enough determination to paint. There are really several key reasons. 1. Painting just for the sake of creating is not enough reason to make me want to put something on paper or canvas. When I paint, I want it to be for a specific purpose. I have so many paintings and drawings hanging around that I'm running out of room to keep them. The painting a day was very useful in getting me back into painting. Now I need to paint something that I will either hang for myself, give as a gift, or sell.<br />
2. Creating a painting will now take more time than I am willing to set aside. My insane work schedule has left me with no sleep schedule. So there is no specific time available to set aside for painting like there used to be. Ideally, if I were to have a 6AM start time, that would leave me with a perfect opportunity. Not going to happen at my current job.<br />
3. I have found an outlet for my creativity that has temporarily replace painting. I was given a Go Pro for Christmas. Since then I have spent a portion of free time filming different things around town. Then editing and putting music to them. It's incredible that only a few years ago you needed tapes and clunky editing software to create movies. Now even at a novice like myself can shoot and edit a decent movie or Time Lapse segment for nominal investment.<br />
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A fourth reason and probably the biggest reason I have not dedicated myself to becoming the artist I could be is....Golf. I spend a decent amount of time on the course and I'm not willing to give up on a game that entices you to get better, even though you'll never reach a level of satisfaction that will allow you to relax and enjoy it like you really should. <b>The Paradox of Golf. The better you get, the more you expect, the less satisfaction you derive from the result....</b><br />
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Actually that's not entirely true. I found that I hated the game more last year when my handicap went UP slightly. In the 10 plus years I have been playing golf, I have gotten better every year. My handicap has gone down every year except last. (from 7.3 to 7.8). As a result I re-dedicated myself to getting better this year. For the first time in my life, I took a series of lessons from my golf pro Ray. Before that it was only an occasional quick fix lesson. No quick fixes in golf. My scores have reflected improvement lately, and my expectations are starting to be met, which means I am happier now than I have been in a year. So in reality, you can only truly enjoy the game when you are at a certain level of ability. If you miss a putt or make a bad decision, you don't feel as bad because you know that you made a mistake. When you are bad, the mistakes can snowball on you like an avalanche. Birdies can fix things, pars and bogeys cannot. The difference between fixing a leaking boat and bailing water with a teacup as it sinks.</div>
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So, having said all of this, I am in the process of shrinking my Go Pro films to a file size that will be viewable on this blog. I attempted to post several here, but the file size was too big. Now that I've jumped back onto the Blog Boat, I will post these more often. The drawback to this is that the fille size ends up being too small to view them in HD.... Maybe an occasional painting will pop up but I can't promise anything.<br />
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Im not sure exactly when I decided to make this, but I knew I had to finish it today.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564336484656123808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069136441389404420.post-63799198025759235642014-03-04T05:40:00.000-08:002014-03-04T05:40:57.081-08:00Another Caricature and a Bad pun<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I don't want to get political here...so I won't. However, no one has heard from this guy about the recent events.until today. So I figured now is a good time to do a caricature. And here is the bad pun.....For those of you who don't know who this is, I'll give you a hint: I was <i>Vlad</i> that I <i>put in</i> a little extra effort on this caricature. I spent a little more time on this one than the Obama, and it came out a little better. I can hear the collective groans and I apologize, but once I thought of that pun, I couldn't stop myself.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564336484656123808noreply@blogger.com0Russia61.52401 105.31875600000001-4.8284340000000086 -59.915618999999992 90 -89.446868999999992tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069136441389404420.post-49379452252041620982014-03-01T05:55:00.001-08:002014-03-01T05:55:54.789-08:00Get ready for more snow...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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During and after photos of the last snow storm. Of course they say there's only a slight chance of snow. I snapped these from my front door. I have no intention of painting these scenes, but thought I'd throw them in here.<br />
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It was almost 60 degrees on Friday, and now I hear there might be more snow, of course not as much as we had last month but still... This is not what I bargained for. </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564336484656123808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069136441389404420.post-27592096055853813132014-02-23T05:35:00.000-08:002014-02-23T05:35:06.426-08:00Caricatures Count Too and Audre Lorde<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Institutional rejection of <i>difference </i>is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which neeeds outsiders as surplus people. <br />
As members of such an economy, we have <i>all </i>been programmmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think iti is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate.<br />
But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals. As a result, those differences have been misnamed and misused in the service of separation and confusion. <br />
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Instead of trying to paint, I decided to do this sketch. A caricature of Obama.<br />
I was inspired by the artist <a href="http://jasonseiler.com/" target="_blank">Jason Seiler</a>, who is pretty much OFF THE CHARTS with his illustrations. I'm hoping this will kickstart my productivity. As for the quote above, I've been reading <i>Race Matters </i>by Cornell West. The above quote was used in the book. This stood out for me because I agree that differences in people are often misnamed and misused in the service of separation and confusion. I have heard people refer to the president (still) as a Muslim because of his name. (And as if being a Muslim connects one with terrorism). Regardless of what one thinks about the presidents ideas and policies, it is fundamentally wrong to judge someone in such a simplistic and stereotypical way. <br />
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I shamefully admit that I haven't read AUDRE LORDE's book, or for that matter any of her poetry other than what I was able to google recently. All I know is that she is a Black Lesbian Feminist, so that is enough for me to disregard everything about her. Wow this separation and confusion stuff really works. (BTW, that was sarcasm for anyone not hearing it through the print)<br />
Here's another interesting quote. <br />
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“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to
our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men
are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain
their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions.
There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in
redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the
present and constructing the future.”
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564336484656123808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069136441389404420.post-5914629333353283892014-01-14T04:47:00.000-08:002014-01-14T04:57:01.525-08:00Stewart Cinks Tan Line<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It has been said that if you have nothing to blog about, then don't blog. I found myself once again feeling angst about seeing the same post every time I opened my blog. So I had to decide whether to leave it or post something not necessarily worth the time. I decided to post this photo of Stewart Cinks head at the Sony Open in Hawaii . The though being that if I have to look at THIS every time I open my blog, I will most definitely find something actually worth positng in the next few days. We'll see if this works.<br />
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On a side note, my friend and fellow blogger <a href="http://gleverestpaintings.blogspot.com/2014/01/whales-golf-and-new-painting.html" target="_blank">Gary Everest</a> attended the Sony Open last week and actually had some blogworthy posts about it. Gary used to golf , and explains why he gave up the game to devote more time to painting. I try to do both. I have actually gotten better at golf, but haven't reached the point where I'm ready to do what Gary did.<br />
Oddly enough, I have not been working much the past week, yet still haven't picked up the brushes. I crushed my foot at work and was couch ridden. I didn't feel enough inertia to paint anything, even though the desk was 10 feet away. I'm feeling another flurry of creativity coming on though. Maybe I'll start with an abstract that I can title Stewart Cinks Head as an homage to kick starting my creativity. <br />
By the way, my foot isn't broken and I'm back hobbling around on it. Going to take some weeks to be back to near full health....and as I sat here it came to me that I could share another thing. An artist I admire. Rod Penner does tiny photo-realistic paintings of small towns in Texas. His subjects are always interesting to me. In fact just Sunday I saw a house that looked like a perfect subject for one of his paintings.<br />
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First I will show you the Painting of Blue Bonnet Cafe by Rod Penner....and I was fortunate enough to find a reference photo that he recently shared. Yes he is technically solid, but his choice of subjects are what I most like about his work.<br />
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The reason I don't like to share reference photos on my blog is because people have actually mistook the photos for my paintings. Obviously these are people not entirely familiar with my work, because I don't paint hyper-realistic(ally?)<br />
Rod Penner must really have that problem. I bet if you had to pick which was the painting and which was the photo it would take some time. Again, while his technical skill is incredible, his subjects draw me in...I aim to prove that is the appeal of his work. Soon.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564336484656123808noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069136441389404420.post-7664945876400829462013-12-18T07:35:00.001-08:002013-12-18T07:38:37.942-08:00Revised slide show with corrected music credit<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I made a mistake in this slideshow. I incorrectly identified the music as done by Moscillate. It was actually done by Mr. Jozzy. I apologize for the error. This is the corrected version with the last slides improved and corrected<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564336484656123808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069136441389404420.post-54829996405396227532013-12-06T03:38:00.000-08:002013-12-06T03:38:22.923-08:00 "Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies."-Nelson Mandela<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When faced with racism and bigotry, I have come to the conclusion that "resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enenmies". Sometimes I find myself harboring this resentment and realize that it's really only hurting me. That's why I chose this Nelson Mandela quote to start my day. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564336484656123808noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069136441389404420.post-47176256042749995822013-11-24T13:15:00.002-08:002013-12-08T11:47:12.755-08:00New slideshow: Not very happy with the program I bought<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Tried out a new slideshow maker for my recent work. Wasn't happy with the limitations of the program. Can't get music to sync with the length of the show. Music will loop when you would rather have it fade and stop.<br />
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<b>I don't often post photos of events here, but then again I don't get many chances to attend events. My daughter Grace got us tickets to the Oregon Ducks / Utah Utes game Saturday. This was only my second college football game and I have to admit, it was most impressive. What a top of the line program. The entire complex looked like a Nike ad, and I guess it was. Ducks started slow but came out in the second half and blew the game open, winning 44-21. Utah scored a touchdown just before halftime to make it close. Then on the ensuing kickoff, DeAnthony Thomas returned it for an 85(or so) yard touchdown. </b><br />
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The story behind this painting began last Wednesday. I sold the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDaPhVmOdg2Qxz7NYgFweXhUN1fNBGtrMSQcxvMQGDu9BnVa29KE5LJCLw_k0pQiOrfMPCTnISx_ey_p62uMA5Bz-fyRHmwnLFFD9dTGBQT9jYiyzm7lZBGrvD_qSCCNv15TEJkupEXmOV/s1600/Daybreak+Downtown.jpg" target="_blank">Downtown at Daybreak</a> painting last week. This left a spot to fill at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/b2winebarportland" target="_blank">B2 (Squared) wine Bar</a>. I was encouraged to do another cityscape so... <br />
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I spent the better part of my Wednesday attempting another cityscape. It did not go well. However, as with most paintings I learned a few things along the way. I was also reminded of a couple of things. The most important being that you can never compromise on the composition. I thought I could compose the painting without precisely measuring the angles. I was wrong. No matter what I tried the painting was just a little off. I had to scrap the entire painting and choose a new subject. So Saturday I chose this challenging scene of a Max train going up the downtown transit mall. I had shied away from this because I wasn't sure how the Max train would end up looking. But I really liked the scene.<br />
I thought I would start by painting some of the train to get some practice with the values and angles. So I began to paint over the last painting. As it progressed I realized that it was going well enough that I should continue. By Sunday morning I had committed to this version. So what had started as an exercise painting over the last panel ended up being a finished painting.<br />
On a side note, I took photos of the process. At one point I washed the entire top of the painting with white to get rid of the painting beneath. This created a very interesting fog like effect with the buildings in the background of the old painting creating ghostly images and the train emerging into the foreground. I liked it so much I almost left it as it was, but I was determined to try to finish the scene. And I thought I could always go back later, wash it out and achieve the same effect. Later as I was putting in the trees, I decided to try and go back to the wash. This didn't work because the trees were now part of the painting and the effect was not believable enough.<br />
Unfortunately the photos I took of this effect have been lost forever. When I shut off my old camera, the lense refused to retract into the body. Long story short, the camera was in my pocket, and when I went to change clothes today, I stepped on the lense and effectively killed the thing. The photos are in the camera's internal memory (another result of the dying camera) and it will not power up. So new painting, and new camera today. Both were long overdue.<br />
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It must sound (or look) like I just cut and paste the same comment every time I post something these days, but I still feel the need to make the excuse...<br />
I have been working so many hours lately that this small painting sat on my desk for weeks before I did a few more things to it and decided to post it. I'm not quite finished with it. I just got tired of feeling like it should be done. Initially it was going to be a quick impressionistic study, and it is for the most part, but I ended up having to do more with it than I intended. <br />
Things are not all work, however. I was able to take a long weekend trip to the coast with my wife last week and we had a fantastic time. And of course I have squeezed in some golf...<br />
I have found that if I don't start working on a painting in the morning, the distractions of the day seem to prevent me from doing anything at all. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564336484656123808noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069136441389404420.post-14929418611510154652013-09-23T04:57:00.000-07:002013-09-23T04:57:41.813-07:00Urban Landscape Trio B Squared Wine Bar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I hung the final of the three Urban Landscapes I did for the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/b2winebarportland" target="_blank">B2 Wine bar in the Pearl.</a> <br />
This little gem in the Pearl District just opened this month. My wonderful wife Lecia and my good friend and golf guru Zach Welch gave me a hand in the positioning. Now I just have to move the lighting a little more to center. I have one more to do for the wine bar, but according to Zach, there has been interest shown in the center painting already, so with a little luck I could be doing even more. <br />
The coffee shop <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bsquaredcoffeehaus?rf=157330907789742" target="_blank">B2 Coffee Haus</a>, which is located a few doors up in the same building features 8 of my watercolor paintings as well. I'm not going to lie about this. When I went in to hang this third painting, I was stilll very pleased with how the other small painting came out. Usually there will be something that I want to change about a painting, but this one still suited my eye.<br />
Of course you can always get better, and I will. However it is necessary to be satisfied with a result. That's what keeps me going. That and being able to see my work somewhere other than in my painting space.<br />
I have been wanting to paint more, but time hasn't allowed it lately. This makes for some frustrating days. Hopefully this will change soon. When faced with such a small amount of time and so many choices of what to do, the brain will often choose to do nothing. That's the battle I'm facing now. I have so many ideas, but I know I don't have time to do even one full painting, so I end up not even getting started on one.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564336484656123808noreply@blogger.com81984 NW Pettygrove, Portland, OR, USA45.530209 -122.6812039000000145.507962 -122.72154440000001 45.552456 -122.64086340000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069136441389404420.post-39865162327532287672013-09-15T19:08:00.001-07:002013-11-09T21:42:14.202-08:00Cityscape: New Lessons learned<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br />As I read through the original post about this painting I realized how my opinion had changed. So I decided to update what I think about this painting. <br />
It is interesting to see how my opinion can change about my own work even though I have left it alone. This painting grew on me more and more as the weeks went by. I began to look at all the positive things rather than where I had struggled with it. So when I look at it today, I am satisfied and comfortable with it. There will always be things that you feel you could have done better, but at the end of the day, if you achieve the visual result you wanted, you have suceeded.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564336484656123808noreply@blogger.com4Portland, OR, USA45.5234515 -122.676207145.1675755 -123.3216541 45.8793275 -122.0307601tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069136441389404420.post-10616330559314489452013-08-31T21:15:00.000-07:002013-09-07T03:58:47.556-07:00Busy Saturday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I'm pretty tired, but I felt the need to post this paintng. This is the larger painting I've been working on. Seeing it online seems to help me decide where I need to make corrections. I ran out of natural light to photograph this so it didn;t come out very clear. I was careful to prepare the lines in this one, yet I still struggled to make it work. Finally after piddling around with it I decided to go bold and try whatever happened to fall on the canvas. That;s when I made the most progress. Sometimes being too deliberate handcuffs me. I will try to get a better photo tomorrow. </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564336484656123808noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069136441389404420.post-17440521534436538682013-08-25T20:18:00.002-07:002013-08-27T03:33:33.247-07:00Early Saturday.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I started this one Saturday morning. I chose the smaller canvas thinking that I first needed to establish a rhythm of painting. Initially I couldn't picture in my head how the painting would work, but I kept going. I added layers to the foreground, established some lines and kept adding layers. Eventually I was able to work thru the problems and it emerged quite nicely. I'm learning that you can't paint as freely with Acrylic as you can with watercolor, unless you don't mind wasting a bunch of paint. I usually mix colors on the fly, but I don't expect them to dry out in 10 minutes. I know there are ways to make them last longer, and I'll have to look into doing that. I do like that you can layer them as well as make them opaque. Well, its on to the next canvas. I need to do a larger painting. This one's 12X16"<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564336484656123808noreply@blogger.com6Downtown Portland, Portland, OR, USA45.513835419407116 -122.6812791824340845.511053919407118 -122.68632168243408 45.516616919407113 -122.67623668243408tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069136441389404420.post-86457757101977231042013-08-25T07:29:00.000-07:002013-08-25T07:29:03.344-07:00Downtown Early Morning...So Far<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is the Acrylic Painting I've been working on. I've got some tidying up to do here, but the main portion is done. This is a rare case where the original actually look better than the photo. It's very difficult to capture the dark colors with a camera. I was thinking about making the headlights in the background more prominent, but this seems to be working as well. I'll have to sit on it. Im moving on to the next scene. A larger painting that might test my resolve to ge this project done. <br />
One thing I have discovered again about Acrylic paint. It dries faster on the pallette than you can paint most of the time. This makes me think harder about moving to oils.<br />
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The most incredible thing about the internet is, you can just surf around and get inspired by all the Artists out there who are doing things you admire. The down side in a way is that you realize how many talented Artists are out there, and you can feel like getting noticed will be difficult at best. Making a living in art has always been difficult, and when I see how many Artists are represented, it seems to me that the market is pretty flooded. The up side is that once you start to feel like you are making the work you can show, you can get it out there instantly. Anyway, I was doing some research for my next painting, which I've decided will be an urban scene. A couple of clicks later, I found some fantastic paintings that I can use as a spring point for inspiration and composition reference. Then I looked up one of my own paintings that I liked to remind myself how I treated the street lights. This Woodstock painting came out succesful because I was able to get the transition of intensity to work. More later on this. By the way, one of my favorite artists (so far) when it comes to urban Landscapes is Jeremy Mann. I will get some links in later, but for now I have to go. <br />
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Editors Note: I'm inserting this in the first part of my entry because I forsee some helpful hints coming my way. I should first point out that I wasn't finished with this painting. I realize the sky has more detail than the foreground, which gives it a problem with depth and cohesion. I was going to work on the foreground next. I welcome comments, but at this point I'm not going further with this painting because of time constraints...<br />
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I spent the better part of a morning trying to fix what I thought was wrong with this painting. For a painting that has a dominating sky, there wasn't enough "drama" if you will. I inserted some dark clouds at the top and thought about adding more. But I got to the point that I really wasn't interested in the topic anymore. To me, the subject itself didn't keep me interested. The top painting is more what I would have wanted. That's a cropped version and the camera picked up some interesting patterns that I don't see in the original. The color variations are a little different. I would consider the top painting (in its presentation here) to be more successful than the second photo of the exact same painting below. Of course, in my hurry to blog, the second photo is blurry (once again) and as a result ends up looking much less professional. I don't dislike this painting, and I don't consider it a total failure. It just doesn't move me when I look at it.<br />
I haven't finished putting in some of the grass in front and bringing in more of the contrast. But for now, I have more pressing needs. I need to present some finished paintings for my new project. I don't think this will end up being one of them. <br />
Having said that, we all know that when someone stops worrying about a painting, they often can come back and somehow make it work . <br />
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I thought I should post something on this painting since I started with it, but encouragement is not what I'm looking for today. I need to move forward. Gotta go. <br />
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I guess I should mention that this painting is on canvas, and I'm working in Acrylic.</h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That tornado on the right is unintentional. I sprayed water on the painting and the drip created that . It clearly doesnt belong here. Maybe in another ....not a bad idea.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking a little stiff and plain. I need to step it up somehow.</td></tr>
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Part of the reason I haven't blogged in a while is my <b>camera</b> has decided to drop me as a partner. It won't let me take many pictures, and when it does, it is reluctant to allow me to download them. In any event, I took these blurry dark pics of my current project. A traditional landscape. I don't know how I feel about this one yet. I do know that there is a nagging desire to change the shape of my canvas to a taller elongated shape. The effect of the sky seems much stronger in the reference photo. And I have wanted to create the elongated painting for some time now. I haven't added any paint to the barn on the right yet and haven't filled in the foreground. I kind of like the more impressionistic color swatches in the first stages, but they don't quite fit with the rest of the background.</div>
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<b>Getting Closer:</b> After a couple of days of scrambling to get 7 paintings framed, I am finally ready to hang them at the B Squared Coffee Haus. I have to remember that unless I paint in specific sizes, I will have to wait 2 to 3 weeks to get my paintings framed. I had to crop some of these paintings in order to get them to fit in the pre-made wood frames. Luckily, the only frame color I needed was black, since my supplier carries that and natural wood. I haven't looked into other frame shops much, but I am pretty loyal to the I've Been Framed Art supply and framing store. They cater to the working and aspiring artist and their prices and helpfulness can't be beat. More later... <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I painted a large version of the Summer Lightning Painting for the B Squared Coffee Haus. I'm in the process of mounting it on Gator Board. Trying to figure out how I can hang this. I wasn't able to find cradle board to fit the 22 X 42 size on short notice. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My mat cutter served me well for all of these paintngs. I was able to cut them to very specific sizes to fit the pre-made frames. </td></tr>
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