Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Barns and Pears




It's been so long since I've posted anything. Wow! School's out and I'm busier than ever with kids going every which way and me trying to paint in between. I have had several commissioned jobs and for that I'm very thankful. I've actually been busier the past few months than I've ever been. I hope that means I'll be even busier once the economy improves. For now I have two paintings to post. One is a 24"x30" commission of a barn. The client grew up with this barn and now it will be torn down. He wanted a painting to remember it by. This one was very difficult because the photo the client gave me wasn't a good reference photo. I decided to make the trip out to the barn about an hour away and take my own photos. I got several good ones but we had just had a terrible ice storm that took down many of the trees. I had to use my imagination for a lot of this painting which I never like to do. The other painting that I'm posting is just a still life of a pear. I love the simplicity. I want to do a very large painting of this soon.