#20 - One Year/100 Paintings - Mt. Vernon Place Magnolia Tree - 5 x 7 acrylic on canvas board. I think I overdid this style of painting that I'm using right now, but let's see what develops in future paintings.
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#19 - One Year/100 Paintings - Gettysburg landscape - 5 x5 acrylic on canvas board. Still working toward the goal of a painting style.
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#18 - One Year/100 Paintings - Random Map Crunch View - 7 x 5 Acrylic on canvas board. Still working on my technique in this painting, keep painting to reach that goal.
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#17 - One Year/100 Paintings - Tomatillos - 6 x 4 Acrylic on canvas board. This was another one of the vegetables that we've never eaten that I picked up at the grocery store to use as a painting subject. I took a photo of the tomatillos to use for my painting before cooking them up in a side dish of Tomatillo Rice. Both Brenda and I felt the dish to be a little overbearing, but not horrible to eat. I found the rice was better cooked up the next morning with scrambled eggs and melted cheese.
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#12 - One Year 100 Paintings - Ansco Camera Still life - acrylic on 5 x 7 canvas board. This camera is one from my collection of over 150 cameras. I've been collecting them for over 25 years. This one looks great on the shelf with it's massive flash unit but the shutter doesn't work.
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#9 - One Year/100 Paintings - Virtual Plein Air - Galán, Santander, Columbia. Acrylic on 4 x 4 canvas board
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#7 - One Year/100 Paintings - something a little different inspired by Morguefile photo. Acrylic on 10 x 8 canvas board.
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#6 - One Year/100 Paintings - Painted this weekend before last, inspired by a nature photowalk at Codorus State Park. 5 x 7 acrylic on canvas board.
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#1 - Still Life - Acrylic on 5 x 5 canvas panel.
7 Paintings in 7 Days
7 Paintings in 7 Days - Create-A-Thon 2017 update. Though I haven't been specifically focusing on one creative activity for a weeklong period at a time recently I have been making lots of sketches, taking lots of Instax photos and thinking about other creative ideas.
This past week, I decided to paint 7 paintings in 7 days - 5 x 7 size mostly, with acrylics, using my own photographs as reference. Brenda and I also spent one day at Rehoboth Beach and painted outside at Cape Henlopen State Park. I really enjoy painting landscapes, and want to work toward painting them in an impressionistic style. I like painting outdoors and would love to be able to do that more often, but it's just not possible with my current daily commute. Some evenings, it was hard to pick up the brush to get started, but I think that painting daily is the way to improve, no matter whether you feel like painting or not.
I think that I would like to expand on this activity and try painting daily for 30 days, not necessarily creating 30 paintings, but that could be my goal. The key would be to work in a small size, such as 5x7, or 5x5. I also have some miniature canvases, that could be fun too.
