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Painting Greece (5)

• Χαλκιδική, 19.12.2010
• 18:24

  3 Boats in Nea Kameni, SOLD

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  Oil on Canvas

  53 x 70

  When I do commissions I usually end up doing more than one painting.  For this recent commission I managed 3 paintings.  I like to do this because I inevitably end up with too many ideas and just have to paint them out and also it gives the buyer a choice.  I like choices. I do not like obligations.

  I have to apologize for the quality of the photos (lack of quality I mean).  I’m hoping to get a new camera soon.

  Be well….

  
  
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• 17:16

  Blue Door, Santorini SOLD

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  Oil on Linen

  55 x 75

  I’ve been working (playing) hard on a commission painting these last 2 months.  We wanted a painting that “screamed Greece” and I believe this one does.   The Cyclades are known for their beauty…. stark white against vibrant blue…. and they are also known for their winds.  To subtly honor this I painted with the palette knife to give the sense of that rugged sturdiness found here. It was a pleasure painting this.

  Be well…..

  
  
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• Χαλκιδική, 25.11.2010
• 21:53

  Apple & Grapes, Still Life

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  Oil on Canvas

  18 x 24 cm, 7 x 9.5″

  Still Life’s are excellent when you want to hone in on techniques.  The fruit doesn’t get up and walk away, fidget and the sunlight doesn’t travel around changing the entire concept.  So here I wanted to work on just that.  The concept of the painting, which was a study in composition and complementary colors.  I wanted to deliberately create a space for the eye to easily follow and rest without traveling off the canvas.  My first and major focal point is the whole apple  where the eye can rest and take in the red against the overall green and then move to the apple slice, which then brings the eye back to the grapes and the process happens again.

  It is a valuable lesson to learn to keep the eye on the canvas.  It is the equivalent of focused, contained thoughts against flighty, scattered ones (I belong to the latter category of mind-sets).  With thoughts it is so easy to just let them run off in all directions…. the monkey mind….. and so it goes in a painting.  A focused painting will catch and hold the viewer whether they like the particular painting or not.  I’m not sure if I accomplished what I set out to do, but I did understand the concept much more by consciously painting with this in mind.

  Be well…

  
  
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• Χαλκιδική, 10.11.2010
• 11:31

  Drying On The Beach, SFA Oil on Wood

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  Greek Fishing Boats

  This is a test to see how things are working on the blog.

  
  
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• Χαλκιδική, 03.11.2010
• 01:46

  Trying to make headway with Headway

   »  Painting Greece

  Spent the last 4-5 hours trying to figure out the new Headway theme. I’m slow at these things. I watched a guy make a website in 8.03 minutes (or pretty close to that) on youtube. Here it is:
  

  So what’s the difference…. 8 minutes vs 5 hours… not too big of a gap….

  right?

  
  
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