Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Grassy Field Fire




 Acrylic paint on 9" X 12" canvas board 

Friday, September 18, 2020

Broken Record

 acrylic painting on 8" X 10" canvas board


My sister-in-law, Dr Rae Tadaro, took this for her office.

Monday, September 7, 2020

Mondrian, Eat Your Heart Out

 Done on 12 X 16 inch Soho Urban Artist Paint Board, 

with cut construction paper, pasted with

 Elmer's School Glue, drawn on with a pencil. 

I tried drawing with paint markers, 

but the markers didn't appear on the scanner 




City At Sunset


Acrylic paints on six inch square canvas board

 

Exhausted

 Would you believe that at 3am Monday morning, I just had to get up and paint my Tree With Birds? I wanted to try a different technique. I just made a few strokes of color, using these miserable acrylic pens I finally figured out how to use. They are put together terribly. The wrong end of the pens comes off!


So, by 5, I put that in this blog, and Yellow Circle, and City At Sunset, while I was at it.


Yellow Circle

Done with acrylic paints on
 Two foot by one and a half foot canvas board 

 

Tree With Birds, acrylic pen


 Tree With Birds, done with acrylic pens on 6" X 3" canvas board

Saturday, August 29, 2020

Saturday, August 22, 2020

Lines

 I covered a 9" X 12" canvas board with masking tape, then applied black and white acrylic paint. I then removed the tape and filled the tape space with lines from Prang Classic Markers. For the record, I'm no big fan of Prang or their markers. They just happened to be handy.

Friday, August 21, 2020

Dirty

Acrylic paint and green marker on 8" X10" canvas board

 Acrylic paint and green Crayola marker on 8" X 10" canvas board 

This one was really easy. The day before, I decided to make a few backgrounds, just backgrounds, for future use. 

This morning I looked at this and just pulled out my green Crayola marker. My only problem was keeping the marker from smudging.

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

City Map

Done with acrylic pens on 9" X 12" canvas board.
The blue lines are major highways. The green areas are parks. The gold are major buildings, such as museums or city buildings 



Red on Green


July Text Writing

     This is something new for this blog. Usually I just display my latest art pieces on this blog, but I was reading that it would be good for any art fans and viewers of this blog to know what I've been doing lately, so, as far as my art goes, this is what I've done lately
      I've decided to submit more pieces to contests run by the Light, Space & Time online art gallery. While I have never outright won any of their contests or even came close, several times they saw fit to display my work with other great entries and theirvwere even a few times when they said my work had special merit or deserved special recognition, so I decided to enter all three of their current contests.
     For their Primary Colors contest, I entered two copies of my Dog With Glasses prints, one in red and the other in blue.

     For their Animal contest, I again entered my red Dog With Glasses, but this time added my photographic collage, my Dog Nosed Washington.

     Their third contest was honoring their tenth anniversary, so I could enter ten pieces for $10.
      They include:
Demon Eye

   


Lines on Red


Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Circles & Red Square


Acrylic paint on 8" X 10" canvas board

My Street Light

You've seen street lights with the words,
WALK and DON'T?
I thought I'd add a few of my own,
WALK, CAUTION, DON'T WALK, SKIP, HOP AND DANCE
Note the dancing bus and the dancing people on the sidewalk.
Done with acrylic paint on 8" X 10" canvas board.

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

March 10 2020 Abstract Art Class in class projects

Diagonal Rectangle And Others

Off-Center Sun

The Three Disgraces

I told you about my Abstract Art Class assignment to make a piece involving  three people or characters.  My teacher showed us versions of the classic piece, the Three Graces. This immediately made me ask, has anybody thought of a piece called The Three Disgraces? My teacher said no, but you could try that.

My first thought was simply to take a version of The Three Graces and pasting a copy of Alfred E Newman's face on them, but, while one teacher said it was fine, the other wasn't happy with it, so I painted something of my own design using acrylic paint on my pad of  Strathmore mixed media paper.

I painted three ugly women in a bath house. They were originally supposed to be a fat woman, an extremely thin woman, and an extremely hairy woman. The hairy woman didn't quite work out, but I love her anyway.  Yes, my drawing ability is terrible, especially with a paint brush, but I love the way the colors I mixed turned out. I loved the flesh tones I developed and even though the hairy woman doesn't really look hairy, I love her coloring too.

Two Three Headed Valentines



These two pieces, made with red and black acrylic paint on a six inch square canvas board and an eight by ten mixed media art board, were originally made for my Abstract Art Class assignment to make a piece involving three people or characters. Unfortunately, my teacher wasn't happy with these, saying it was too late for Valentine's Day, so I had to think of something else.

Monday, March 9, 2020

I Love To Paint

This was a project done in Abstract art class with words painted in warm colors on top of cool.
This was all done with acrylic paint on an
eight by ten inch art board.

Abstract Landscape

This was for my first abstract art class assignment, which was to make an abstract landscape. I used an 8" X 10" canvas board. I used a paint knife to half mix yellow ochre and burnt umber acrylic paint for the ground and ultra-marine & cobalt blue for the sky, then green, black and iridescent violet for the tree and flower 

Saturday, February 22, 2020

Self portrait in ManorCare

In ManorCare Nursing Home
Following surgery to prepare for
double knee replacement.

Released February 19 2020.

Knee replacement scheduled for
 later this year 

Friday, December 27, 2019