Here's my acrylics on wrapped canvas started last week in Doug Walton's class then finished a few days ago. I think Doug wanted it to be total abstraction but I need to have some semblance of reality within a composition. From my photo of Asian persimmons given to me by Rose, Vietnamese nail technician, setting on top of a pillow cover I photographed them in many different views. Pillow covers were made in India and have pearls, braid, ribbon, lace, embroidery, silk, cotton, etc. and make excellent backgrounds using simple fruit and/or other still life items. Size is 24x20; photo was horizontal but was in such a hurry I drew the fruit with a brush in acrylic vertically. Canvas was textured using white acrylic stamping with bubble wrap, let dry, then paint applied very thin in spots, and wiped off in others.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Persimmons on a Pillow
Here's my acrylics on wrapped canvas started last week in Doug Walton's class then finished a few days ago. I think Doug wanted it to be total abstraction but I need to have some semblance of reality within a composition. From my photo of Asian persimmons given to me by Rose, Vietnamese nail technician, setting on top of a pillow cover I photographed them in many different views. Pillow covers were made in India and have pearls, braid, ribbon, lace, embroidery, silk, cotton, etc. and make excellent backgrounds using simple fruit and/or other still life items. Size is 24x20; photo was horizontal but was in such a hurry I drew the fruit with a brush in acrylic vertically. Canvas was textured using white acrylic stamping with bubble wrap, let dry, then paint applied very thin in spots, and wiped off in others. 
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Chuy's Pet Portrait
15x15 watercolor on Italia 140 lb paper, transparent colors Daniel Smith and DaVinci paints.Striping it Rich
This is Chuy (pronounced Chewy) our gray tabby adopted 9 years ago from the Humane Society. He was caught red-handed in this photo napping on my lovely pillows. I decided to paint his portrait so have worked on that several days and will post it shortly. This photo was one of 16 images I put on WetCanvas! last weekend for the Weekend Drawing Event and I ran out of time to draw and paint him.
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