Hello again painting fans.
This week I will be starting a new painting. I will be painting a shingled four square style house (early 20th century) seen on my recent trip to Chincoteague, Virginia. I love the adirondack chairs out front. The photo that I’m using is seen directly below. I’ll be using my usual acrylic paints on a 6×6 inch canvas.
I started with a pencil grid on both a print of the photo and the canvas. In this way I was able to transfer the elements to the canvas in an accurate pencil sketch. I’ve overpainted the lines of my sketch.
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.
Are you planning on including the lawn chairs as well? Asking for a friend. 🙂
Anyhoo, I enjoy watching the process. There’s something to be said for not losing sight of the process, regardless the creative endeavor.
Thanks, I will definitely do the Adirondack chairs.
I was wondering if you don’t mind my asking: are there any particular artists who inspire your work?
I am not sure if there are any photographers I could just name off hand myself. I have some vague memory of seeing the work of landscape photographers as a kid on PBS shows, and thought what they did was cool. That got me to join a photography club at one of the schools I attended, and I never did stop taking photos of landscapes. Around the start of the Great Recession, I stumbled on to some blogs of individuals documenting the decline of urban areas as well as another who was interested in cityscapes (especially those involving street art). Those photographers inspired me to add that to my repertoire. I lived in a rural area at the time, and found that it wasn’t that difficult to photograph the decline of once-thriving towns. My current locale allows me plenty of opportunities for street art photos. Sunsets are still my favorite to photograph – they appeal to the existentialist side of my thinking.
For the most part the folks who inspire me are not pros, but just hobbyists like myself.
I don’t have any inspiration for these sorts of paintings. I do love Ed Mell for southwestern scenes. I would love to have one of his originals but I’ll need to win the lottery first.
I do like seeing those kind of photos. Shots depicting the decline of Detroit were at once fascinating and sad.
There was some guy who was traveling around Detroit, Camden, NJ, and elsewhere documenting a good deal of the decay and decline of what had once been thriving communities. His work got a some attention via Jim Kunstler’s blog back around 2010 or so. Kunstler was always a bit of a reactionary for my tastes, and his peak oil talk got tedious, but he did have an eye for photographic talent. Wish I could remember the name of the photographer. Occasionally I travel through the high plains and what used to be Route 66 and document some of the decline as well. Ghost towns are a mixture of stark beauty and sadness for me – perhaps especially so when they are places I once traveled to back before they were abandoned.