Tuesday, December 22, 2015

The art gods are shining a bit

Well, I'll be......Gold Oak Leaves got another nod, this time from the Boldbrush judge! Top 15% Green Frame transformed into "pretty" blue as a finalist. In my humble opinion the illusive Blue Frame goes much better with the paintings complexion anyway..... Makes me wonder if I should become a proud stage dad and enter it in some more competitions and perhaps get a travel passport too.....lol

NOVEMBER FINALIST
Gold Oak Leaves 30x30 oil on linen (11-10-15 canvas 998)
 
Gold Oak Leaves was also chosen to be a limited edition Private Collection Giclee  - the first proofs coincidently arrived with the good news.

It's kinda fun seeing a painting acquire history, a bit of longevity if you will - especially one of your own.

A NEW HOME
Morning Promise 20x20 oil on linen (2-8-14 canvas 888)

December is proving a nice finish to my year as a painter. Congrats!! go to The Richard Stravitz Gallery staff in Virginia Beach for helping me find a new home and wall for Morning Promise to reside on..:=) 

Sometimes it takes more time to workout what you want on a canvas than it takes to do the actual deed of making it. I'm always fussing here about needing walls to paint for but a concept, a collection or series of related paintings is another valid reason to paint. Often more effective than thinking about a single canvas and what goes on it. A concept can produce a few paintings or 20 or 30 depending on the momentum and energy the collection/series produces during the process of making it.

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