Energized by my newfound motivation to paint more portraits (see yesterday’s post), I’ve started a portrait that I’ve wanted to paint for some time. Actually, I would consider it a ‘figurative’. A portrait is meant to capture the spirit of an individual. A figurative is more about the feeling of the painting than it is
I am happy to have this portrait completed. I love painting portraits but they’re challenging. They do get easier though, so that’s good. Before each portrait, I go through some kind of ‘stage fright’ and I have to give myself a little pep talk that I can do this, then I start painting. I have
Well, today I shipped off a painting to New York for it to be included in a group show and I realized for the first time how expensive it is to enter shows (and get into them) in places other than my own city. I took the painting to a pack and ship store, where
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Wednesday I went to the art opening at the Houston Arts Alliance City Hall Exhibition. The painting “House Across the Field” was my painting in the show. It was a lot of fun, I loved talking to the other artists that came and everyone I met that was associated with the Houston Arts Alliance was
No more goofing off. I’ve got a portrait commission I need to get to work on. Though speaking of goofing off, I did have a fun afternoon yesterday. I headed over to The Heights, a section of Houston with a lot of old antique stores. I got my Diet Coke and a bag of Fritos
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Time to get back to painting, on canvas that is! I’ve finished painting the table and it was fun and it looks great, but that is not where my gift lies. My gift is in painting on canvas: landscapes, people. I met a woman today and we talked about her commissioning a portrait of her
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Where did the last few days go? I painted a small ‘abstracted’ barn a few days ago, but I don’t like the colors so I’m not posting it. My high school junior daughter is going to the prom so that has been a fun distraction from painting (if I have to be distracted, at least
Today I heard a speaker in my church’s “Faith and Art” lecture series. This morning before the lecture, which started at 11:30 a.m., I got nothing done. Just little piddly things, I was really thinking I should go to a lecture titled “How not to waste time”! Anyway, I went to the lecture and I
