Thursday, December 17, 2009

Finished!

TA-DA! Finished except for a final coat of varnish to even out the colors. This Greyhound is the most ambitious painting I have every undertaken. It is huge (for me) about 30x 36 inches. It has taken me about two months of working on it to get it done. I think it will be while before I attempt one this complicated and big.
Hope someone likes it well enough to purchase it.  I do not have a wall big enough to hang it at home. But I think I can find a spot a the Emy Frentz Center. Later this spring, all these paintings that you see me finishing will go into a show at the Landkamer Building gallery space.

There is a little cropped off the bottom that I did not notice until I up loaded the photo from the camera. So in the original you see all the Ford logo and more of the chrome trim. I think the viewers eye is carried around the painting very well, from the focal point of the dog's head and feet down to the logo around the trim and back again.
Now on to a new series that should not take so long to finish. I have lots of photos from Italy that are just waiting to get up on canvas.
So two posts in one day. Been saving all the good stuff till now.  Merry Merry everyone!

Merry Christmas!

I got in the spirit of season and bought a little poinsettia plant for my studio. It is so pretty and bright that I decided to paint it for a Christmas gift for my friend Bonnie and then one for who knows??

This one is framed in silver very festive just 4x6 and fun to paint. Acrylic on primed paper.

This is the pot of poinsettias. It  is16 x14 acrylic on canvas.
I was trying for a loose style of painting with lots of color.
Hugs to all my two readers and Merry Christmas.
Margie

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Black rocket

I forgot to post this one when it was finished. It really turned out just the way I want these chrome pieces to look. The greyhound is getting to me and I am totally ready for a more forgiving subject.



This photo was taken at the November show for the members of the Emy Frentz Guild. It was one of three that I put up. It was a fun show but as far as I know only one painting was sold. Not one of mine. We took this one up to Jerry's Shop in Belle Plaine to be with the rest of my chrome paintings. They are hanging there and hopefully giving people the idea that I could do this with their car too. Here is a photo of my display at the show.



The first is an oil plein aire of the flowers in my front yard this summer, the second is a watercolor of Dan's 35 dodge. That one is NFS obviously! And the third is the black rocket. One of these days I might start painting in only one media....not yet though. I like the experimenting.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

One room school house.



This is a commission that I just finished yesterday. I painted this from an old photo copied photo and so had to do some considerable editing. The trees were not in the photo but I felt that it was too barren without them and the customer told me that there were some along the lot line. The original photo had a whole string of students lined up in front of the school house I pulled a few of the students out for this version. The wonky little shed has been straightened out. The customer did not like the original color of the shed. I painted it a old barn red and when he saw the finished painting asked to have it changed to white. When I over painted the red the angles got crooked.  I really liked the red but the customer is always right. Here is the version with the red shed.



I think the balance is better with the red on the shed.  I also had to recreate the bell tower. It was cropped off from the photo.
I am still working on the grey hound. Making progress and I hope to work on it more today. What a project it has been!