Hello again painting fans.
This week I will be continuing with the Victorian mansion. I am using the photo seen directly below. I’ll be using my usual acrylic paints on an 5×7 inch canvas.
When last seen, the painting appeared as it does directly below.
Since that time I have continued to work on the painting.
Starting at the top, I have painted part of the gable detail seen directly above the front door. (Above the section adjacent to the white wing. Moving down, the foundation has been straightened and shadows added. The shadows are consistent with the architecture above. Finally, on either side, the shrubs to the far rear have been completed. With these changes the painting is now completed.
The current and final state of the painting is seen in the photo directly below.
I’ll have a new painting to show you next week. See you then.
Earlier paintings in this series can be seen here.
The cafe is open.
Nicely done, b2. Happy long weekend all!
Hope everyone had a great weekend. I was away on business, so the bulk of my time got spent working. Such is life.
It’s really tightened up, Boran. I like the color contrasts you’ve developed and the many planes of light and dark in the architecture.
Nice!
Hello, All. is it safe for a Sanders supporter to comment these days?
Hi Errol – no worries from me 😉
ok, sorry I asked. judging from the comments on the Morris thread, it won’t be safe to return until mid November.
It seems a bit less toxic here than elsewhere. That said, there are a few users whom I have not engaged for a while, simply because conversation in any sense I could consider meaningful is no longer a possibility. Life is short enough as it (given what I’ve experienced in recent months, the life is short thing is very salient) is without adding the hassle of an extended pointless “argument” on the internet tubes. For what it’s worth, I don’t regret voting for Bernie in my state’s primary at all. Would do it again in a heartbeat. I may not be comfortable with the Democratic Party, but more comfortable than with a certain combed-over demagogue.
you allude to recent experiences – very sorry to hear. My read here is there’s the regular crowd, most of whom are open to dialog, even those who have very strongly held allegiance (I put myself in that category) and a whole set who just recite talking points. I’ll give a try once or twice, but if it’s just a matter of outputting talking points, it’s not discussion it’s an irritant because Booman used to run a blog with interesting discussion. Anyway, I value the posters who make an effort and read here and anon, and smite occasionally. Some excellent diaries, and good dialog on the diaries. Nice to have this cafe, very pleased that Boran is running this, plus I like his painting a lot.
I’m glad Boran’s cafe is still here. Fun to watch the painting progress. Yeah, I’ve been dealing with what started as a medical crisis in the family that is now essentially a long recovery (the extent of the recovery is a bit uncertain – thanks for the kind words, by the way: kind words matter more than one can imagine). It’s been stressful to say the least. One thing that has come out of that experience is I am taking a longer view on our country’s (and elsewhere) political situation. In a way, I am viewing the struggle to regain a lost sense of economic and social justice as not that much different from the struggle to regain lost physical abilities. In each case, it’s a long slog filled with false starts, setbacks, and occasional successes. Patience is not just a virtue, but a requirement for one’s sanity in either case.
Sending good thoughts for the recovery. Longer view, yes, and it does seem to be underway so I guess i should try to be patient, as you write. Also, I guess pushback is to be expected.
Thanks for the good vibes. We’re cautiously optimistic that a complete or near complete recovery is likely. Frustrating as all get out in the meantime.
As for the political, a man far wiser than me once said that the long arc of history bends toward justice. Sometimes it doesn’t seem that way, but then we only get to experience just a sliver of that arc during our short time on this planet. We deal with the frustrations, the pushback, and the compromises as best we can. I look at the anti-nuke and anti-Apartheid movements as sort of the high-water mark of social activism during my teen/young adult activist days – that was during the Raygun/Thatcherism era. The 1990s and the first decade of this century were disappointments, generally. There are reasons to be worried currently – the rise of right-wing nationalism is troubling to say the least. But I have seen some legitimate green shoots – the Occupy Movement may have been less than hoped for, but got a conversation on income inequality and capitalism started for the first time in a generation. The progress on LGBT rights and the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement are also part of what keep me hopeful. A lot of elbow grease is needed, but I may find myself retiring at a time when much needed progressive reforms happen consistently. We may look back at Sanders’ campaign as the beginning of a shift within the Democratic Party towards economic justice. Time will tell. But I’ve been more optimistic as of late.
I like how you think about it, thanks for foregrounding the green shoots.
No worries. 🙂
Around the start of the year, my oldest of the kids was very adamant that I vote for Sanders. Laid it all out – lots of passion, lots of reasoning as well. By the time the conversation was over (I mostly listened), how could I not? When a member of the generation that will be responsible for cleaning up all the messes made by my generation and the ones preceding mine has something to say, those words carry weight. It’s one primary vote I will never regret.