THANK YOU ALL!

My painting pal Linda Yoder wrote today with this surprising bit of news "You knw, for years I hit 'reply' and commented on your work.never, of course, knowing that you weren't getting my comments."  ??!!

I immediately went roaming around Blogspot and on the Design page, lo and behold, the comments are bountiful - how sad that I never saw them.  They don't show up below my posts nor do they come to me via email.  Oye!  I'll try and figure it why this is. 

So very belatedly - thanks for all your comments and support over the years!!

 

          4x8"      Homage a Qiang Huang    oil

This is a trolley I did awhile ago.  The original was painted by the very talented Qiang Huang.   I found it such a delightful piece I decided to paint it as a learning experience and a 'homage'.  I made minor changes but Qiang had done all the work -- creating the composition, working out the values etc.  My goals was to work on new brush strokes, figure out how to loosen edges, paint some perspective. I thought I'd post it just to keep with the vehicle theme I've had going this week.

The one that got (thrown) away...

     6x6"                                 Rusty               acrylic on canvas

The other day I tried to paint the truck below. I sanded and restarted that board three times... aaarrh.   I just couldn't get the scale/angle right; finally threw it away.  I'm pretty sure the board was jinxed :-)

Today I painted this fun rusty old green pick-up (above) that shows up here and there around San Rafael. While originally it was the old truck that I was drawn to,  the van on the right ended up being the most exciting to paint.  It was a new challenge figuring out how to create the reflections. The painting is actually a little sharper than this photo. I need to reshoot it.

Petaluma Red - '49 Ford

      6x6"                    '49 Ford                 acrylic on board

Took a little break from my working on the "Body Language" series today since there are several shows coming up for the holidays calling for small work submissions.  Often the max is 6x6"  to 10x10"..  I've got a couple small motorcycles ....thought I'd try to paint a couple paintings.   Found an old photo I took it in Petaluma while visiting my pal Judi earlier this year of this.  From research on Google images it looks like a '49 Ford.  I should go back and add the FORD name on the back; I missed that.

Body Language.... #2

Today I finished a second abstract figure working from a photo taken last year.  My subject didn't realize he was in the shot.  I was taking a picture of someone else in the foreground; he happened to be sitting farther back in the room.  As I looked at the photo before painting it, he seemed to be relaxed, lost in his own thoughts.  When we read body language - do we get it right ....or are we projecting our own feelings onto another?

           acrylic on canvas                            Untitled #2                          18x24                          
   




This was the first-  posted last month, They look the same here, but this was is much larger

acrylic on canvas                             Untitled #1                                     36x48