Hello again painting fans.
This week I will be continuing with the painting of the Second Empire Victorian. I am using the photo seen directly below. I’ll be using my usual acrylic paints on a 6×6 inch canvas.
When last seen, the painting appeared as it does in the photo directly below.
Since that time I have continued to work on the painting.
Taking a look at the lower photo you might beleive that the painting is now done. It isn’t. I finished the sky, lawn and background trees and added my initials. After taking another look, I was not happy with many of the changes as well as the house itself. Thus began my revisions, the subject of next week’s installment.
The current state of the painting is seen in the photo directly below.
I’ll have more progress to show you next week. See you then.
Earlier paintings in this series can be seen here.
Open it is.
Comment I shall. 🙂
Not a lot in the way of down time, but I’ve been trying to work in some recreational reading and a bit of Netflix binge watching when possible. Finished the most recent installment of the Millennium series a couple months ago. The new author definitely has a different pace from the author of the original trilogy (the late Stieg Larsson), but appears to have studied the psychology of the characters well enough to do them justice – especially Lisbeth Salander who is hands down my favorite literary character from this century. Will be curious to see how the story plays out on film. Loved the Swedish films of the original trilogy, although those messed with the timeline (and sometimes characters) a bit much for my liking. The US version of the first book (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) was reasonably well done and cast, with of course the usual complaints about the timeline duly noted. Too bad the sequels never emerged.
I finished The Worst Hard Time, which is an oral history of the Dustbowl – a good story of greed, the near destruction of a whole ecosystem, and the lives affected and in some cases destroyed as a result. Seemed like a fitting prelude to Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything, which I hope to get to next.
The original trilogy by Stieg Larsson is excellent.
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Loved that trilogy. One of the few sets of books I can re-read and discover something new each time. Larsson’s areas of expertise (right-wing movements and human trafficking) somewhat overlap my own interests and concerns. Some similarities in ideology too, as it turns out. Have you tried the fourth book in the series? Would be curious as to your thoughts about the author who took over. I’ll try to re-read it at some point. Definitely likes faster-paced story lines, which made it not much different than reading something like the Da Vinci Code. Definitely a different feel to the reading experience, although I suppose that is to be expected.
I’ve reread the original at least twice, and some parts more than that.
I have not read the follow up, mainly because I did not want to be let down. But your comments have convinced me to give it a try.
Soon.
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I had a lot of trepidation about the fourth book. I won’t spoil any of it for you. The writing styles are definitely different, but the new author does seem at first read to have captured the primary characters quite well. Manages to delve a bit more into some of our society’s concerns with surveillance – I think I can say that without unwittingly giving away spoilers. It was a difficult book to put down once I started reading, which was a good sign. We’ll see how it holds up on a second reading.
Spoilers never bother me.
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Always good to know. Lisbeth’s origin story gets more completely revealed. That’s fun. I’d had my suspicions about her choice of the username Wasp. Those were confirmed. It goes without saying that her badassery (is that a word? oh well, it is now) is still off the charts. Lots of fun scenes with her. The new author seems to get it as much as Larsson did (and perhaps better) about the autism spectrum, and portrays Lisbeth quite well. There’s the existential crises that any of us in our middle years experience that get further explored through Blomqvist and Bublanski in particular. That whole question of how to function or stay relevant when society deems one’s best years as behind one has been lurking just beneath the surface of the series in those two characters for a while, and seems more obvious in this volume. Zala is still dead. No surprise. But, he might still be making his presence felt. That should offer a bit of a hint as to what you’re in for. Oh…nearly nonstop action. As I said, it was a hard book to put down. Will at some point reread to see if it has the substance I think it has or if it is empty calories.
The creation is never complete until the creator is satisfied – or at least satisfied enough – with his or her creation. Will be curious to see how things progress in the upcoming week.
Thanks and thanks for your mid eeek post!
Should be week. Sigh.
The way last week was going, mid “eek” about sums it up! 🙂