Painted Box

I painted this wooden
box I bought at Target 

Aquatic Stencils

Stencils, acrylic paint, 8" X 10" canvas board

Ant & Bee Stencils

This is what I made when playing with
my new set of stencils and other new
printing equipment

Animals

Acrylic paint on 8' X 10" canvas panel

Paper mache dinosaur

I picked this out at Target and painted it
My sister in law likes it and wants more

Phone Receiver

red, blue and yellow acrylic paint
on
5,5" x 8.8" Strathmore mixed media paper

Black Red Green Streaks Lines

8" X 10" canvas board
acrylic paint

It's Sunny Somewhere

mixed media:

Alphacolor tempera paint

 and

Crayola colored pencils

on

Strathmore 5.5" X 8.5" mixed media paper

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Blue Starry Sky

Acrylic paints on 8" X 10" canvas board

Volcanic Island

acrylic paint on 8" X 10" canvas panel

Night Scene

B & W acrylic paint on 8" X 10" canvas board

Dandilion on Gray

Acrylic paint on 8" X 10" canvas board

Bride With Flowers

Acrylic paint, six inch square canvas board

Entered into Saba V sale at
Delaware Contemporary Art Museum

Pieces are $25 each
All art donated
Artists get no compensation 

Mask September 27 2019

Tempora paint,  six inch square canvas board

Entered into Saba V sale at 
Delaware Contemporary Art Museum

All pieces $25 each
All donated
Artists get no compensation 

Halloween Gag

Happy Halloween

Straight White Lines On Gray

Black and white acrylic paint on 

six inch square canvas board

Flower On Gray

Acrylic paint on six inch square canvas board

Connected Shapes, Saba V, 3rd entry

Entered into Saba V sale at Delaware Contemporary Art Museum, on July 9, 2019, 6 to 9 pm. 

All Pieces are six inch square, costing $25

This piece painted with watercolor. 

All pieces are artists' donations. Artists receive no money 

Grays, Saba V, 2nd entry

This piece painted with gesso and white acrylic paint 

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Entered into Saba V sale at Delaware Contemporary Art Museum, on July 9, 2019, 6 to 9 pm. 

All Sabas V pieces are six inch square, costing $25, 

All pieces are artist's donations. Artists receive no money

Latest Tree (Or Bush)

As I mentioned before, I got a new application for my tablet, Acrylic Painting Ideas, by Cakdroid. It had an idea I decided to try, a tree, or bush, with leaves of various colors. That struck me as a way to experiment with acrylic colors. For once, I tried using a five and a half inch by eight and a half inch page from my Strathmore mixed media book, which was handy, rather than one of my usual canvas panels. I made a grassy bottom with various shades of green and black strokes, a black tree base with branches, then started my color experiments. The only thing that gave me any trouble was what background to use, behind the tree, above the grass? I tried several background colors, then put some blue on top of what I had already tried, which came out interesting

One more thing. 

Because I painted on paper, this piece isn't quite flat.

Unintended Watercolor Abstract

I got some new art applications for my tablet, Abstract Art Ideas, by Novtie Apps, and Acrylic Painting Ideas, by Cakdroid. I decided to try an idea from Abstract Ideas, for which I tried using my watercolor paints. I haven't used them in a while because I have trouble controlling them. They tend to run in ways I can't control. For this reason, I intend to take a class in watercolors at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, at the University of Delaware, starting in September.

As usual, they ran in this painting too and I didn't get what I intended, but, as it is, it isn't bad.

Mondrian July 5, 2019

Chameleon On Flower Catching Fly

acrylic paint on 8" X 10' canvas board

Warhol Goop

For Abstract Art class, last Tuesday, we were shown how other people had made their own versions of classic art pieces. How works had been made based on previous works and turned into styles like Cubist, Surrealist, Abstract Expressionist, or simply their own interpretation. I've certainly done enough of that. Look through this blog and you'll see my versions of works based on Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko, Alex Calder and others. Also, how many versions of classic works like the Statue of Liberty and Mona Lisa have we seen. Did you ever see the fat Mona Lisa?

But, I have never done a stab at Warhol before, so I give you a can of Warhol Vegtable Goop, done with acrylic paint on 8" X 10" canvas board.

The Raven

Made with 8" X 10" canvas panel, acrylic paint, cut paper raven images
 found on internet, printed with MS Word, cut out and glued on

This was made for a homework assignment for Abstract Art class. The assignment was to find or write a poem, then make an abstract art piece based on it.

The only poem I know well is The Raven, by
E A Poe. It's a very morbid poem about mourning. I then had to figure out how to represent morbidity in paint. Then it occurred to me that Mark Rothko had already done this. He had committed suicide and you can see this morbidity in his later work. I simply had to make a piece based on his work and add the ravens.

Mondrian Trees

Half & Half Fish

Half & Half Fly

Half & Half Tree Scene

8" X 10" canvas board
acrylic paint

My latest homework assignment for Abstract Art class, at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Delaware University,
was a tree. How's this?

Abstract Face

Kneeling Prayer

Done with scissors, glue
 & construction paper
Slightly worse for wear

Flowers In Pot

latest wax encaustic class piece,
done with canvas panel, wax paper,
gesso, random magazine page 
and Tempera paint

Apple

I've started taking a wax encaustic painting class again, at the Osher Lifelong Learning Center, at the University of Delaware. I tried taking it last year, but had to quit, due to scheduling conflict. We're studying it under Ms Cesarine, using her book, 

Waxing & Waning: the Art of Mediatative Painting, by Petra Cesarine

It's done with a canvas board, an old magazine page, tempera paint, the first time I ever used such paint, gesso, wax paper and a two inch brush.

Apply gesso to the board, then cover it with the magazine page and cover that with gesso. You then apply your wax paper to that mess. eventually you can remove the wax paper and the wax will stick and you can begin painting. It's a little more complicated than that, but that's the basic.

So far, under her direction, I made this apple, which I'm rather proud of. I think it looks pretty good.

Spirals & Curves

Cut & PasteConstruction Paper

Continued inspiration 

from Matisse

Man Playing Cigar Box Guitar, with Cigars Falling Out

Pencil sketch on 8.75" X 12" heavy wt paper
No color except for red end of smoking cigar

Town & Church On Hills

My second try at a landscape, 

done with acrylic paint

on 9" X 12" canvas board