Internet meme of the day–girl falls into fountain while texting
Girl falls into fountain while texting, 6X8″, oil on canvas And the steps to do it, in about an hour: I start with either a watercolor pencil drawing. Easily erasable with a wet paper towel, allows me to fiddle endlessly with composition. Then I block in colors and values, very roughly. Then these shapes are …
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Winter evening at Twelve Corners
Winter evening at Twelve Corners, sketch, 12X16 or thereabouts, oil on canvas I was waiting for my son at Brighton High School and amusing myself by taking photos of the streetlights with a handheld camera. Never thought of the photos as a painting until it was suggested by my friend Pilan. Here it is in …
Internet meme of the day–that’s just crazy talk.
Tinfoil hat, 6X8″ oil on canvas Tinfoil is just not that easy to paint alla prima. This was my second try. But check out this tinfoil, done with a rather more careful approach, in colored pencil: http://www.kenygalleries.com/images/ac-tolstedt/tolstedt-bio.html (BTW, I can make the tinfoil hat itself in less than a minute.)
Unicorn with double rainbow (for my kids)
“Unicorn reindeer visiting my front garden with a double rainbow in the background” 8X6, oil on board. Today for my one-hour still life I returned to an old idea, painting an internet meme. I could find only half the props needed for “baby monkey riding on a pig,” so I fell back on that old …
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