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| the house next door (b&w) |
Hello!
I have been working on various things;
a portrait commission, and my DOR paintings
and just wanted a warm-up to start the day earlier this week.
This little painting was the result.
I didn't take too many progress photos, but here are a couple.
This is the photo of my view of the house next door
(from the sofa) ... good neighbors!
I found a nice panel already prepared and sketched the main
areas with charcoal and fixed it with the Spectrafix fixative
for charcoal, and pastel.
This was my challenge, to see if I could do
a painting of this view, and actually
like the result.
I must say, that I think it turned out pretty well.
One happy happening, was that my plant on the sill,
a lipstick plant Aeschynanthus,
had just popped out a quad of lipstick tube blooms!
Here is the result of my efforts ... as you may have
noticed from the photo,
there are many more alder branches
than what I painted in.
Who wants to go crazy? I think it gave
the idea of alder branches with snow on them, so -
no going batty trying to put them all (or even many) in!
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| The House Next Door 13.5 x 12 inches oil on prepared Masonite |
show has a couple more days left for viewing.
Happy First Friday!
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Four have sold, and I am so grateful for the
people giving those paintings good homes!
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Happy Painting!
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Oh and Happy Easter!
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2 comments:
Thanks for this summary of your process, Teri. Your eye, your passion and your humanity are always with you and with your work.
Hi Jerry! Thank you so much for your kind words! I love how clean & spare your blog is ... (wink).
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