Acrylic palette knife painting on canvas panel
Impasto technique
Puffy white flowers with pink and green background
Flower Series No 58
The original painting is available here and giclee prints are here
A short video I made at the lake last week.
60th blog post in a row
Acrylic palette knife painting
Impasto
Flower Series No 52
Available here and giclee prints are here
Today is my 60th blog post in a row. Two months. Surprisingly, it hasn’t been all that hard. Certainly not as difficult as I imagined it would be. It takes being organized, but at the same time, it keeps me organized.
It’s beginning to look and feel a bit like the w word out there..my favorite time of year. 🙂
Move. Keep moving ahead is exactly what I want to do, and wrote about here. So, I’m going to continue. Why not? If the pace gets to be too much, I’ll rein it in, but until then, I’m going to keep pushing on through.
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. -Franz Kafka
Onward to month three.
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Doesn’t seem fair
Acrylic palette knife painting
Flower Series No 50
Available here and giclee prints are here
Listening to Bye Sweet October. It makes me so sad knowing that I’ve got to cross another of my favorite months off the calendar soon. Why do my favorite months have to past so quickly, and summer goes so by s-l-o-w-l-y? Doesn’t seem fair. Althoooough, it was 90F here over the weekend, and I’m glad to see the heat go away. I woke up feeling so sick Sunday morning, allergies raging full force. Sore throat, coughing, stuffy head. Ugh. Luckily, it was only allergies, and it passed in a few hours. By nightfall, I was as good as new.
White flowers, pink and black background
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Acrylic palette knife painting
Impasto
White flowers, pink and black background
on canvas
Flower Series No 47
Available here
The Art Forger
Acrylic palette knife painting
4×4 on canvas panel
Flower Series No 42
A book I recently devoured in 2 days is The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro. Here’s what Amazon has to say about the book..
“Almost twenty-five years after the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum—still the largest unsolved art theft in history—one of the stolen Degas paintings is delivered to the Boston studio of a young artist. Claire Roth has entered into a Faustian bargain with a powerful gallery owner by agreeing to forge the Degas in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. But as she begins her work, she starts to suspect that this long-missing masterpiece—the very one that had been hanging at the Gardner for one hundred years—may itself be a forgery. The Art Forger is a thrilling novel about seeing—and not seeing—the secrets that lie beneath the canvas.”
I highly recommend reading it. The chapters are short, which I love. Only thing is, there were hardly any chapters that I could stop reading when I got to the end. It was hard to put down from the start. Loved it!
More pleasing to the eye
Acrylic palette knife painting
Landscape No 5
12×12 on canvas
Blue sky, puffy clouds, and sandy beach
Original painting is available here
You might recognize the top half of this painting. I originally painted it a couple years ago. There was something about the bottom half that really bugged me, tho. It used to be sorta red, and I don’t know. It wasn’t doing anything for me, so it had to go. In its place, a pretty sandy beach. Much more pleasing to the eye, imo.
At the end of the day, I’ll officially be on vacation. It’s the first one I’ve taken in years, and I’m going to enjoy every minute of it. I’ll be without internet access pretty much the entire time. Don’t worry, I worked extra hard last week, and I’ve scheduled enough blog posts until I get back. You won’t even miss me. See you in a week. 🙂
Happiness is
Like candy apples
Acrylic palette knife painting
Red flowers in a water glass
Flower Series No 35
Original painting available here
Giclee prints available here
I couldn’t get a really good image with my camera. I picked the best photos, but I’m not happy with them. In reality, the flowers look like candy apples you get at the county fair. I have to resist breaking off a piece, and eating it. Really pretty red.
You also can’t feel the texture through the camera lens. The best I can explain it to you is it feels like soft glass. I don’t believe I’ve ever felt glass that is soft before, and you probably haven’t either, so you’re just gonna have to trust me on this, okay? The flowers look like candy apples, and feel like soft glass. It is best viewed in person with your own eyes.
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