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Posted
Mar. 08, 2004: the painting is done :) It "usually"
used to not take so long to paint an original piece of artwork,
but that was back when I used acrylic paints :) Acrylic paints
dry IMMEDIATELY and move along a LOT quicker (but the colors
aren't as intense and your finesse factor is down unless you're
real patient <g>). Oil paints take forever to dry and
if you want something on top of wet paint...you have to put
LOTS of it down thickly (and even that don't work sometimes).
Unless, of course, you happen to be thinning your oil paints
down (with linseed, turp, etc. etc. <lol>). Oh well.
I'm happy. Hope you enjoyed seeing all of the photos, etc.
If you are interested in buying this piece, check out the
zoom of the original art canvas or send an email (I have much
larger photos available :) Support the arts!
Posted
Mar. 07, 2004: Not done yet, but VERY almost :) I figure about
one more session, two at tops and this baby is DONE!!! My
first finished original art canvas oil painting in more than
a decade! The funny thing? I'm surprised that it looks like
my drawings (don't ask me why). I never did enough painting
before...to actually develop a style. Go figure <lol>.
Well, apparently, developing a "style" is a very
natural process (unless you force it/try too hard <g>).
Posted
Mar. 01, 2004: well, it's almost done. Woohoo! My very first
original art canvas painting in (probably) more than a decade.
Maybe even two. Final bits? Fine tune the numbers a little
more, finish the snake, bring the droplets back into the picture
and work on the ifish a tad bit more. THEN it will be done.
It would be very cool if I could sell this one, that would
be very sweet because paying rent is always a good thing.
But it's probably going to take a while to get my name out
there and I haven't even started on that part yet <ugh>.
Still too busy getting back into the actual making of ART
part <g>. Always SOOO busy :) But that's a good thing
:)
Posted
Feb. 22, 2004: Back in December, when I dusted this painting
off, I had a hard time connecting with it. I just kept looking
at the original art canvas and asking myself, "what am
I going to do with THIS?" Somewhere between then and
now the connection has been reestablished. I don't know if
this happened while I was looking at tree bark or while drawing
a zillion snakes or what. Whatever, however, all I know is
that now I KNOW what I want to do and how I want to go about
it...and that's a very cool thing :) It's been an absolutely
wonderful weekend :) Wish I didn't have to go back to work
tomorrow, but don't we all? <lol>
Posted
Feb. 19, 2004: Now I remember why I hate painting at night.
It's been a while so I'd forgotten. Sure you can get REALLY
bright lights to help keep your colors straight (sometimes
dim light makes it look like two colors are identical but
natural lighting WILL destroy that illusion in the morning)
but you then have to deal with the harsh gleaming of wet paint.
This becomes an issue when you step away from the painting
to get an overall look at it. Doesn't sound like it would
be a BIG deal BUT, as an art teacher once explained, you don't
paint for close up, you paint for distance viewing. That means
that you MUST step away every few minutes to check out the
painting. Paintings have to make sense from a distance. And
when the fresh paint is reflecting BACK all the light at you...it's
impossible to see what's going on. Sooo, no more night painting
<lol>. At least it wasn't all bad (although there was
a lot of cussing involved), the new snake is blocked in, the
new ifish is also blocked in and the numbers are making their
official comeback :) Tooo funny :)
Posted
Feb. 19, 2004: part of why I've been away from this painting
for more than a month is #1) getting "Seeds" (Gary's
newest Indie music release) ready and posted on the internet
and #2) because of the $#@! SNAKE <lol>. Somewhere along
the way it hit me that the snake was ALL WRONG and I've been
drawing replacements ever since. Here are just a few of the
many <g>. I finally got on the internet a few days ago
and started searching out snakes once again. Came up with
a zillion images and started drawing REAL snakes again so
I could absorb the flow and really get a feel for how a snake
moves. Sometimes, when you start drawing something ONLY in
your head (without looking at the real thing)...you get too
far away from the reality of it and you have to go back and
touch base with the real thing so you can get back on track.
Guess what! It worked <g>.
Posted
Jan. 03, 2004: it's actually turning out okay that the oil
paints take a while to dry. I don't mind taking this one sloOooOOooOOwly
<g>. Baby steps man, one-at-a-time :) I wasn't really
happy with the tree so I've been super scoping out every tree
I see, checking out the bark and colors. NOW I'm much happier
<g>...with the tree, the original art canvas and the
way the painting is going :)
Posted
Dec. 28, 2003: It feels good to have a paintbrush back in
hand, but boy am I rusty. And I keep getting in a hurry (considering
oil paints can take up to two weeks to dry <ugh>). Oh
well, it's been an absolutely lovely Christmas vacation--Gary
making music, me painting, nice long walks spent scouting
Christmas lights, gifts, cookies and a few bouts of late night
Atari <lol>. Wish I could forget about work and just
keep painting and drawing. Maybe one day eh? :)
Posted
Dec. 28, 2003: This is a photo of the initial acrylic painting
(now hidden deeply under oil paints). Originally started back
in 1996 this painting sat fallow for almost seven years. That's
a whole lot of dust collecting <lol>.
Posted Dec. 28, 2003: Click the image above
to go to the DRAWING gallery or keep scrolling up to see the
stages of the behind-the-scenes look at painting an original
art canvas!
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