{"id":3846,"date":"2021-03-07T22:59:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T22:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=3846"},"modified":"2021-03-07T22:59:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T22:59:31","slug":"my-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=3846","title":{"rendered":"My Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Until a year or two ago, I hadn’t picked up a brush to paint anything artistic since I was nineteen years old. True story.<\/p>\n

So in 2018 I bought some water colors and a watercolor book and did a couple of quick, ungood watercolors.<\/p>\n

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Then in 2019 I did some Acrylics.<\/p>\n

The first was an image that stuck with me while watching Downton Abbey. I found this image so compelling, I took a shot of it from my TV and kept it. I had it on my phone for more than a year, probably much more, before I tried to put a similar image on canvas. 4×5″<\/p>\n

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Then I did a 2×2″ of a humpback whale breaching:<\/p>\n

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Then this 9×3″ of waves<\/p>\n

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After this, I wanted to add some background.\"\"<\/p>\n

Then I took up a tall format, and larger.<\/p>\n

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A friend took this amazing photo of a heron on a dam of some sort:<\/p>\n

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I loved this pic, so I wanted to do something to get it on canvas:<\/p>\n

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Then I saw a photo of something that looked a bit impossibly clean, but was clearly a photo. A very calm ocean, and a breaching Orca.<\/p>\n

I did a 9×3 of it first:Three colors: Blue, white, black.<\/p>\n

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But the original image had some pink blush in the upper water, so I did a larger one.<\/p>\n

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After this one I wanted to do an image of a shore bird, based on a photo I saw. 8×10″<\/p>\n

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And another water bird, a Gannet. This is meant to be a sketch for a larger one.<\/p>\n

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The last painting I’ve done since I just finished a few days ago:<\/p>\n

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\nCarol said she loved the clouds, and wants to see a large one like this on our wall, so I guess that’s going to happen soon.<\/p>\n

Since Carol gave me two easels for Christmas, along with other paints and supplies, and Charlotte got me a HUGE set of oil colors (like 30 or more colors) I will be doing more painting. The larger easel is to set up in the garage for big pieces. The small one is a desktop and you can see it in several of these photos. They will both serve me well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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