Chef John Stage 3

Well got to work a little on my painting of John today. Rest of day disappeared with family errands etc.

Chef John 47 x 53 inches Stage three

Chef John

Started a new painting yesterday. Its for my son John. Chef John 47 x 53 inches. BIG!

Chef John 47 x 53 inches Stage one

More pics as I move forward.

Chef John 47 x 53 inches Stage two

Done - Tom's F1

OK! Its done. Looked at in real light this morning and even hung it over the fireplace in the living room. Now I don't want to give it up. :-) Time to sign it and pack it up for its trip to the UK.

Tom's F1 - 30 x 48 inches - Acrylic on linen  

Part IV on Tom's F1 - Lewis Hamilton - Vodafone McLaren Mercedes - 2010

Spent the weekend helping out my good friends at their fathers cottage doing major repair work. Feel like a real boy scout with all those new carpentry badges! 

OK! I think that I'm done with all the detail work on this painting. Really need to give a feeling of speed, so its time to add the water spraying off the wheels to show speed.

I will mask off the wheels and other sections of the car and then brush splatter the rain on the canvas. Should do the trick I think!

Tom's F1 Stage 7 - 30 x 48 inches - Acrylic on linen  

More pics later.

Think I'm done. Added the water sprays from the wheels and now I let it sit to see if its ready to ship.

Tom's F1 Done - 30 x 48 inches - Acrylic on linen  

Part III on Tom's F1 - Lewis Hamilton - Vodafone McLaren Mercedes - 2010

Did a lot of house hold chores today before I could start to paint. Time to vacuum and mop the house, finish the dark load of laundry, go food shopping, get my son's phone fixed at Verizon and then get back to painting before I get interrupted again. :P


Ok so before and after dinner I got this far. More detail work and pushing and pulling.

Tom's F1 Stage 6 - 30 x 48 inches - Acrylic on linen  

More on Tom's F1 - Lewis Hamilton - Vodafone McLaren Mercedes - 2010

Here is where we are this morning. A whole day of painting ahead. :)

I will add more photos to this post to show how far I've gotten today.

Tom's F1 Stage 2 - 30 x 48 inches - Acrylic on linen  

Here is where we are after lunch. Back to painting!

Tom's F1 Stage 3 - 30 x 48 inches - Acrylic on linen  

Dinner done, Son delivered to School and here here is where we are before I work until lights out.

Tom's F1 Stage 4 - 30 x 48 inches - Acrylic on linen  

Last update for today. Painted from after dinner till 10:15. Here is where we are right now.

Tom's F1 Stage 5 - 30 x 48 inches - Acrylic on linen  

Tom's F1

Art work all squared up and looking nice. Now for some colour. More to come later.

Got some colour blocked in. This should be nice when its done.. More to come later.

Tom's F1- 30 x 48 inches - Acrylic on linen  

My first commissioned painting since starting up Doug Steward Fine Arts!!!

Starting a new commissioned painting for a friend in the UK today. Found some real nice cotton muslin linen weave in the supply closet and this should do nicely. I have to ship it to the UK rolled and unstretched so this should be the best fabric to use for strength and weight when rolled.

I had to stretch it so that I can gesso it and then work on it. More as I move forward.

Ready to start the Gessoing!

 

Resurrection one slice at a time.

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/04/project-12-31/?pid=3307&viewall=true

OK this one is just a little strange but the images are real striking. Use the link above for more images and the full story on how to live again one slice at a time.

Sexy Wall Jewery for Google search test

Here is a test of how all this stuff works. I have noticed in my blog stats that the post "Sexy Boo Painting" has most of the hits and views.

So lets see what this blog post title does!!

BTW here is a painting of my three paintings that got into the show this week. Thanks for looking!

Painting for Ann - NYC for Ann - 30 x 40 inches

Working on "City" for Ann. Starting to get the feel for how it should look.

NYC for Ann - Stage 2 - 30 x 40 inches

OK worked on this one this evening while the rest of you slugs were on the chesterfield watching the Boob tube. :P

NYC for Ann - Stage 3 - 30 x 40 inches

Time to let it age till the morning.Then look at in the sun light to see if it needs some tweaks.

BTW all those windows were a pain to paint. :)

Small moose head.

I've always wanted a stuffed moose head for my wall. Really want one for the cabin up north. Found out that they are REEEEAAALLLY expensive. So I did a test to make my own. Made armature from copper wire left over from various projects. Soldered them together and then covered with tissue paper and polycrylic. Now I know that I can do this..... I will make a full sized one at the cabin and cover it in birch bark this summer. Should be fun!

BTW its only 6 X 4 inches

Quick landscape #2

OK I finished this one up. Total of about 4.5 hours.

Here it is in detail and also hanging from the loft half wall over the living room.

Birches #2 - 3x4 feet - Acrylic on paper

Here it is hanging on the loft 1/2 wall. Looking nice from my point of view

Quick landscape

I have a large space on the loft wall and since I moved the piece that was there to the display space down stairs it was time to do a new one.

Needed to loosen up also so ....  I started this one this morning.

Birches #2 - 3 x 6 feet - Acrylic on paper

Birches #2 - Stage 2 after 4 hours

Doing much better - Sinus issue is almost resolved

Sorry for all the down time but ..... I did not know how sick I really was. My wife thought that I had pneumonia and I just could not move from the bed/couch/bed routine.

So thanks to the modern medical science of molds, thank you Mr. Fleming, I'm getting the old energy back.

Here is the start of a painting of NYC for my daughter Ann who requested this for her blank wall. Its rather large so I will be doing it with acrylics since I really don't have time to mess with the drying time of oil on this one. Its 30 x 40 inches and I want to get this one done before Wed of next week since I have a lot of new projects in my head from lying around for two weeks with my idea book and the internet.

Here we go!

NYC for Ann - 30 x 40 inches

Feeling better, soon I will get back to work.

OK! It was not a roaring head cold. I had the worst infected case of sinuses EVER! Now taking horse pills full of Amoxicillin. If I keep getting better then I will be able to move out of the guest bedroom where not even Boo will sleep at night due to all the coughing and hacking that I do all night.

Roaring Head Cold

OK its official. I have a roaring head cold. I'm talking like Barry White and hurting all over. Its going to be a day of bed rest and reading my Kindle. See ya all later.

I have a cold and will be spending a few days mending. I'm a guy so I can be a wus on this.

Made my Hot Toddy and now to bed and my book. BTW you can use Lime juice or OJ instead of lemon. I like Lime juice. :-)

1 1/2 oz bourbon whiskey
1/4 oz lemon juice
3/4 oz sugar syrup
...1 slice lemon
1 clove
...4 ozhot water

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Painting for Annie!

My Daughter has a large bare wall in her apt. So she asked me to do a painting of NYC for her.

Great! Love NYC since we lived down there for so long. So I have a number of ideas and since I need a canvas to use and create the composition on I went into the closet and grabbed a failed painting.

Got the sander out and gave it a good sand and now am putting down the first coat of gesso over the yeck image that was there. 4 more coats to go and then off to the races. Lets see if my fire breathing fists of bushes will save me again! 

I sent a goal to have this one done by Thursday. Going to be very fast and rough.

Ann's NYC - 30 x 40 inches

Hawks and Doves "OOPPS!" Done

Really productive morning, worked some more on "OOPPS!" this morning and I'm done.

Comments as always are welcome.


About this painting from previous post: Ok #2 for the Hawks and Doves show. This one is of my Brother John and his job while he was in the US Army. He had to shuttle the A bombs around everyday to hide them in different bunkers. what no one knew was that he was still a Canadian citizen at the time. This went on for 6 months till he told someone. :-) Boy did he get a change of duty quick!!!

OOPPS! - 18 x 24 inches