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Here’s a little caricature that I forgot about that I did a month or so ago of the british singing sensation Susan Boyle.
Here’s another in the Big and Bold series of Acrylic paintings. These are full sheets of 140lb. coldpress watercolor paper. This happens to be Arches.
I received a new color for me from Interactive to use as flesh when I airbrush my caricatures. I was never a fan of this color, I actually didn’t like it, but since I’ve had it, it’s beautiful. It’s Juane Brilliant. It reminds me of flesh with a bit jaundice. Anyway it works really well with cerulean blues, so I decided to use it to see for my self.
I wanted to keep with a vertical feel so exaggerated the pilings , stretched the shack and made the washes vertical. I actually painted the background of course soaking wet, on an easel, then put clips on and let it dry overnight. My white area were the building and the pilings, my darks were the shadows under the pier. You might note that I have no water line in the background. I wanted to keep everything simple and let the colors work for themselves. The only odd color was the red in the lettering which I wanted to draw attention to.
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I was going thru my picture file and came across this Cadillac that looked kind of interesting. In the photo the car was white……booooooring! so I changed things a little.This was painted with Interactive Acrylics…naturally on bristol board with a vellum finish. Vellum is a paper finish that has somewhat of a tooth to it, so in this case you really have to know where you’re going and be very deliberate with you brush strokes. It acts very similar to markers. I did add a bit of slow mediuim to the paint on the foam plates I use for pallettes. This helps a bit, but again you have to work fast and wet. This took about 10 minutes total painting time. i think the fact that you are working fast gives you little time to piddle and poke. Get I and out as they say.
Just finished this up, from the Norcross Ga. car show last week. This Blazer wasn’t particularly wild and crazy but I think it turned out… what a lot of people would, call “cute”. Ugh, It hate it when people (ladies) say that when they see my stuff. Nice, OK …..anything but CUTE!
Periodically I search around for watercolors and usually save them in a file for later to determine what it is about the painting that draws me to it. I have recently started using these pictures as screensavers and this particular one came up that I wasn’t even aware of that I had saved but it really shows some interesting thing that attract me to it. First, it’s colorful, second it has a focal point and third it’s something you wouldn’t ordinarily think of for a subject matter. Also there is a lack of detail, yet you know what it is. Color is what makes it work. A quote I always hear from Tom Lynch is “It’s entertaining” wouldn’t you agree.
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This last weekend I made my way to downtown Norcross for their annual Hotrod show. This has always been a good show other than the time the tornado came thru and destroyed my EZ-up canopy and a number of pictures.
This show had 220+ car despite the poor forecast of weather. This car is owned by a fellow sign painter that has a shop in Duluth. He has a number of beautiful cars of which I have painted several.
I am going to my first hotrod show this weekend since I don’t know how long. The hotrod shows are always the alternative to other shows and workshops that I teach. While packing up the van ,I went thru some of the preliminary sketchs that I usually do before I start painting, I usually get a feel for the car from the photos I take at the show. Sometimes the first one will do while other times it might take 2-4 to find one that really look good. I wanted to share some of these. Also some of these are sketches that I did while sitting at shows.
I just received this order last week and thought I would share. I do many of these for presents. This particular one is 11×14 and sells with shipping for $50. If you are interested you can e-mail good photos and I’ll fix ya up. Barry@signandart.com
I just finished attending the national Cornbread festival, in So.Pittsburg, Tenn. which is just west of Chattanooga. This show brought in 50,000 people. This is the first time and won’t be the last, as I drew nonstop from 9-6 for 2 days. I wanted to post some customers just for fun. No technical stuff this time!
