Anuhdah

Time for another postcard (painting) from the (edge?).

Soon.

Blow-By-Blow Tryout

It's been a busy and full day and now I'm faced with painting, tired and worn - which is at least one reason why I'm having a certain hesitation with committing to this 'Painting-A-Day' thing. But we'll see. It may just be a matter of rearranging my priorities a bit; and a little attitude adjustment… Painting strikes me as tiring at the moment and I'd rather be crawling into bed and indulging in a bit of video valium, i.e. pointing my eyes at tv and just vegging out. Butta iffin I'm gonna jump one way or the other with both feet into Painting-A-Day, (or not), ah figures ah should sample it in it's full flavor, tired an' all. (There'll be plenty of times I'll be tired and'd rather not do it.)

Time to fire-up the webcam. (For those unfamiliar with the StudioCAM, you can get there from here. Just click on the StudioCAM link at the far right of the screen.)

Okay, so these times are real CDT tmes, not Blogger times.

10:05 p.m. I laid out the cash for a week's worth of small, 6x6 and 5x7 inch canvases. What you're seeing is all those little buggers getting gessoed. BRB.

10:25 Now to put the background in on that little canvas.

10:44 Cool. First coat on. Now to let it dry.

10:49 Second coat on. Chose a raw umber right out of the tube. Now will add a bit of black to suggest shadow and add interest to the background.

11:13 The fun's begun. Got the basic shapes down and now adding highlights.
The trouble with acrylics is that if you brush over a spot that's not quite dry, the paint lifts instead of mixing with the paint you're applying leaving a blank spot. So now we'll have to wait AGAIN. Pfft.

Midnight. Okay then. :) Almost finished... The Artist's Apple.

12:25 a.m. Signature on. Fin.

Hey, that wasn't so bad! It actually looks like an apple too. (Why am I always so surprised when my paintings look good?)

Okay folks, now I get to eat my subject :)

That's a wrap.

Laters.

To Do, Or Not To Do...

At Acre's Edge
14x11" Acrylic

Okay. So just finished(?) the small painting I've been doing today as a test run, (above), trying to decide if the 'painting a day' thing would be something I'd like to do; something that could realistically be done with honor. I mean, every day?

Anyway, been considering it.

At Acre's Edge is 14x11 inches, and the paintings done for the 'Painting A Day' movement are quite a bit smaller - in the neighborhood of 5x7" or smaller - usually - and simple. And now I know why! Sheesh. Something I imagined taking only a few hours turned into a major project. And I'm not exactly thrilled with the results, rushing the painting to completion like I did. I don't even know if I'll sign the thing.

(I know... crappy image. I still haven't nailed how to get decent images of my work, short of taking a lousey photo like above, or scanning 'em on an 8x14" scanner and doing a bunch of jiggery-pokery trying to get the pieces to fit together.) (Bad, bad color in that image above.)

About The Painting
It's about the back-end of a row of old houses that butt-up against the edge of some farmland along Hwy 218. You can find them on the right as you head south toward La Porte City from Waterloo. I'm often traveling that stretch of highway toward nightfall, and if you can catch 'em at just the right time of day, the orange light of sunset hits the back of those white houses and they seem to glow an orangish white in the blue-gray of everything else that surrounds them. (From a photo taken before the snow'd disappeared.)

I'm outta here.

Have a better one!

Cheers.

Lessee What Happens

An artist's blog? What could possibly be said? Welp, let's see what happens...

Cheers!