Sunday, December 30, 2018

Town on Hill

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This piece was done on a 10" square canvas with acrylic paint, is my first attempt at a landscape. I'm very proud of this piece, among the best I've ever done. I even got the shadows right, on the left side of the buildings and hill. I thought of giving the buildings more color, like real life, but I like them a bit drab. My only real concern was, was the picture taken with my shaky hands too blurry? It now hangs in my doctor's office.

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Imitation Mark Rothko, December 5, 2018

I was inspired by Mark Rothko's work and made a few imitations which you can see at 
daru3-davidart.blogspot.com/2015/11/rothko-file.html

I did some research if him later, and, if you know Mark Rothko's work, you can see that his suicide was coming, so I decided to try another version of his style, Hopefully, a happier version, below:


So, how does this make you feel?


Sunday, October 28, 2018

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Watercolor Matt

First watercolor painting done since childhood

Done to give to my therapist, Matt

Strathmore 9" X 12" coldpress watercolor paper
Crayola Washable watercolors 

Saturday, October 20, 2018

Elephant & Rider Primative

This is the first step in this piece, drawn with Autodesk Sketchbook program, by Apple. In the next step, I will try to draw this in manner of original primitive artists

Sunday, September 30, 2018

Avocado

This started out as a series of circles and contrasts between warm and cool colors, but I found myself making an avocado, so I went ahead with it

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Monday, June 18, 2018

The Sitting Reader (fauvism)

I looked into fauvism and Matisse's The Dance II. I thought I could try my own fauvism.

I had two problems. 

First, my acrylics didn't cover my pencil marks. Would any acrylics cover the pencil or should I have used oils?

Second, I had trouble controlling where the paint went. It got sloppy. I either must find much thinner brushes or follow my teachers' advice and paint larger. 

Also, after trying to adjust it, I couldn't figure out how I wanted the left foot to face.