Blackbird by the Beatles

BLACKBIRD 

Beatles song, my art

Black & white acrylic paint on 24" X 36" canvas board 

 BLACKBIRD SINGING IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT

TAKE THESE BROKEN WINGS AND LEARN TO FLY

ALL YOUR LIFE

YOU WERE ONLY WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT TO ARISE

BLACKBIRD SINGING IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT

TAKE THESE SUNKEN EYES AND LEARN TO SEE 

ALL YOUR LIFE

YOU WERE WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT TO BE FREE

BLACKBIRD FLY, BLACKBIRD FLY

INTO THE LIGHT OF A DARK BLACK NIGHT

BLACKBIRD FLY, BLACKBIRD FLY

INTO THE LIGHT OF A DARK BLACK NIGHT

BLACKBIRD SINGING IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT 

TAKE THESE BROKEN WINGS AND LEARN TO FLY

ALL YOUR LIFE

YOU WERE ONLY WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT TO ARISE 

YOU WERE ONLY WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT TO ARISE 

YOU WERE ONLY WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT TO ARISE 

I gave this to my physical therapist, Dr Handling, in Newark, Delaware, for his office. My sister-in-law, Dr Rae Todaro, requested a copy for her office.

Untitled Mixed Media 1

 18" X 24" mixed media

Glued on cut pieces with acrylic paint

on canvas board

Rooster

 This was painted with acrylics on a 6" X 3" canvas board, which was why I had such difficulty with it 

Old collage pieces made years ago

 These are old pieces I recently rediscovered. I made them by applying some metal gears and some wooden cutouts I ordered. All work done with acrylic paints on 8" X 10" canvas boards.

Ducklings In Sun

Ducks are wooden cutouts

Sun is a metal gear

Gears

The gears in Gears are made of wooden and metal pieces I ordered 

My Rothko 1

This image was painted with acrylic paints on a 18" X 24"  canvas board.

It was shot badly with too much light in one corner.

I never liked Rothko because,  toward the end of his life, he was so depressed that he killed himself and you can see this depression in his later work, but there's no denying his genius 

 

Grassy Field Fire

 Acrylic paint on 9" X 12" canvas board 

Purple Flower

Drawn on 4 X 6 inch card with Artist's Loft markers 

Broken Record

 acrylic painting on 8" X 10" canvas board

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

Double Face

Acrylic paint on 18 by 24 inch canvas board

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

Little Abstract

Colored felt pens on 6" X 3" canvas

 

Ribbon

 Acrylic paint on 1.5' X 2' canvas

Hand Pencil Sketch

 Pencil sketch on 3" X 6" canvas

I found these small canvases I bought a long time ago and thought I'd try something I haven't done in a long time. I pencil sketched my hand.

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.

Dirty

 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.

Black, Blue and Red

Acrylic paint on 8" X 10" canvas

 

Spots 2, August 2020

Acrylic paint on 8" X 10" canvas board 

Spots 1, August 2020

Acrylic paint on 8" X 10" canvas board 

 

Bugs & Flowers

Acrylic paint on 8" X 10" canvas board 

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

Garden Scene

18" X 24" on canvas board

Flower On Round Canvas

Acrylic paint on ten inch
 thin wooden canvas 

Ball & Star

The River Styx

Acrylic paint on 9" X 12" canvas board

Exhibited in Fusion Art's Second Annual Lines, Shapes & Objects Art Exhibition,
June 5 to July 4, 2020

www.fusionartps.com/2nd-annual-lines-shapes-objects-art-exhibition-june-2020/

Butterfly On Leaf Being Eaten By Catterpillars

Acrylic paint on 10" X 8" canvas board

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.

Caterpillars Eating Leaf 2

Acrylic paints on 5" round canvas panel 

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Fishing Jellyfish

Acrylic paint on 8" X 10"  canvas panel

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Planet Weather

Acrylic paint on one foot round panel

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Three Jabbing Triangles

Completely done with
 cut & folded
construction paper 

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.

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 

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 

Sea Scene 3

8" X 10" canvas board
acrylic paint
stencils