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Friday, November 27, 2009

"Inlet Fishing"


5 x 7
Done at Vilano Beach during the Crescent Beach Paintout. Only thing better than fishing was painting.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Photos from the Plantation Wildlife Arts Festival


The photos aren't good but this gives you an idea of what I did. I got very positive feedback from the patrons. If I had an unlimited budget I would have framed everyone of them but that would not have been practical. I sold 21 of the paintings, and I consider that a success during a year that sales overall did not appear to be that good. I am glad I did it. Next time maybe only 25. I will be posting some of them over the next weeks.
Also I am taking the remaining 80 with some additional new 6 x 8's to my gallery in Tallahassee for a December Minature show. So check out Signature Gallery on Capital Circle NW in Tallahassee.

Thursday, November 05, 2009

"Wind and Light"


16 x 20
Another from the Crescent Beach Paintout. This was a hard painting to photograph. Darker paintings cause problems for me. It's hard for the automatic light meter in the camera. You have shoot at a bunch of different exposures. Plus the lighting for the photograph isn't regualr. At plein air shows I usually shoot with the painting in the shade. This also isn't exactly the final painting. I think I took this photo early in the week. After looking at the painting a couple of days, I decided the third tree needed to be changed and I also softened the edges on the tree with frons (?) sticking out. Finally, on the last day a gave the painting the a light spray of varnish. When you are dealing with darks the colors tend to dull out in about a week. Because the painting is on a support and not on stretchers a light coat of varnish is not a problem. It was a pretty painting and not your typical plein air piece.
Thanks for looking.

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

"Bridge"


8 x 10
From the boat ramp on the way to Vilano Beach. Simple. I won an Award of Merit from fellow artist with this one.

Monday, November 02, 2009

"Distant Light"


11 x 14

This is from the boat ramp on the way to Vilano Beach. Great place to paint. Headed over in the morning on a great clear day. About the time I got to the Vilano Bridge this giant fog bank moved in. I'm not sure what the weather issue was, but it made for some tough painting conditions. By the time I was painting this one there was just a haze over the landscape. This is not a great photo. I like the idea of keeping thing simple, but also subtly complex. Does that make sense?

Sunday, November 01, 2009

"Intercoastal Palm"


18 x 24
This was done at Summer Haven. What a great little park. It is part of the Matanzas Fort National Park. Looking north up the intercoastal waterway. Just a little palm with gnarly wind swept bushes.