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The Boats painting comes along slowly
I have to admit I haven’t been working on this painting much lately. I did a few sessions with it before Thanksgiving, but since then I’ve been involved in preparing my house for the holidays and writing Christmas cards. The original photo I’m painting from has brown water, but I wanted to liven it up…
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Another fun Art Chat
I attended the Battle Ground Art Chat last week. Probably because of the holidays, about half the number of people came as usual. However, that gave us each time to talk longer about our art and our backgrounds. We saw some really interesting pieces. I brought the two paintings I intended to show two and…
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Progress of the African landscape
I have done a lot of work on the bushes in the forefront of my African landscape, particularly with the shadows. However, as they now look like a bunch of blobs, a lot more work needs to be done. Once I get all my shadows in, I’ll start working on the highlights, and they’ll start…
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Photographs of new and old
I was going to meet the photographer Michael Kay last week to have him take professional photographs of two of my newer paintings and from there make cards and prints. However, I had the opportunity to borrow one of my older paintings from my brother, whom I gave it to a few years ago. While…
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The Starfish is honored (and so am I)
The Battle Ground Community Library opened a small art show on Friday. During the opening, the organizers had everyone vote for their two favorite paintings. Toward the end of the event, the organizers announced that there was a tie and asked everyone who was left to vote for one painting. When the voting was over,…
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On view at the public library
I submitted two paintings to a show for Art Chat participants in the art gallery at the Battle Ground Community Library this week. I went in later and took photos when the exhibit was being set up, so some of works aren’t quite straight and on the wall shown below, the proper tags aren’t up…
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My painting is up at a gallery
A few weeks ago, I answered a call for art from a new gallery called the Atrium by submitting photos and info for two of my paintings. One was accepted, and last week I dropped it off. The painting is now on display, and the opening for the new show is tonight, October 25. If…
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The beginnings of two paintings
I am working on two paintings now. One in art class and one at home in my little studio. The one in art class is an African landscape that is mostly sky. My instructor told me she thought I should have two paintings going at the same time in class, so although I had already…
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My most recent finished painting
I finally finished my painting of Luke, my dog. During the last session, I painted darker areas around and added reflections to his eyes and finished his nose. After all that painting of hair, finishing up his face only took a few hours. Now I am on to two new paintings, one at home of…
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My Luke painting gets eyes and nose
After painting hair for weeks and weeks, I know I am finally getting toward the finish of my painting of my dog. That’s because I painted the first coat of his eyes and nose. I still have to paint highlights on the eyes after they dry, and the nose is just getting started. I have…
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