Three quick acrylic drawings done with an outline of acrylic paints and then painted. The approximate time was 15 minutes each.
2 Dogs and A Cardinal
Acrylic Painting
The Climax is Not the End, Doodle #89
I admit today’s doodle is not really a doodle it is an acrylic painting I am currently working. The painting fit in better with today’s prompt the word climax, which of course means the end. The climax of any story is the moment when the lot line reaches the final act which should tie the whole story together. In art there is also a climax when we step back from a piece of art and say aha, we’re done or are we?
The piece above entitled, “Winter Pine Tree,” is not a finished piece of art. I still have to do some work to complete the tree. I first looked at the picture and thought I was done but still felt like there was more to do to finish the picture. The problem I have with my paintings is I feel like I never reach the point where I can put the painting aside as a finished painting. Many of these unfinished works, at least unfinished in my eyes, I look at years down the road and am amazed at how well they look.
As always I have a life message for you. As I reach the climax years of my life there are times I look back at my life and think I am done. There is nothing more for me to complete. Then like a work of art in progress I look at may life and think there are a few more brush strokes which can be added to the painting. This is why the title of this doodle is, The Climax is Not the End” is because we must never view our lives as finished because there is always something out there to be done.
A Cold Winter’s Day
Over the years I have switched to smaller canvases. I don’t know if it because of my adult ADD and the idea a finished painting on a big canvas take a while to complete from concept to finished painting. Maybe it is the fact smaller canvases are cheaper to buy or find at the local thrift store.
Tip of the day. I often buy a small frame at the local thrift store, take the cardboard out of the frame and use it as my canvas. The upswing is it costs me $1.97 to get a canvas and a frame to put my finished painting in when I’m done.
Whatever the reason I switched to small canvases I still had a couple of larger canvases left to paint on which led me to today’s offering an acrylic on canvas entitled, “A Cold Winter’s Day.”
Daily Timeout for Art #33
A little offering,”Little Blue Bird,” done in ink and acrylic on an old book page. I like the pop of color in this piece but if I did it all over again I would make the bird a little more transparent so the words on the page bleed through.
A Country Road
An original 11 x 14 acrylic landscape entitled country road painted on cardboard. The painting is available for sale. Please contact me if interested.
