More work on barrel

Here is a little more work I did. Malissa took these pics of me painting so these are Action Shots, even though I'm wearing sweat pants. I'm a slob, I admit it. In the bottom picture I'm crawling around painting lady feet. Last year I had this on a dolly Madison (my name for our dolly with wheels), but this year I went with sliders. Dolly Madison used too much room, but gave me more elevation than these sliders. In the middle picture is a close up for hair painting. Although I haven't painted Robin in a while, I have painted her more than anyone, and know how to paint her skin tones very well. Everyone has different skin tones, and it takes me a while to figure them out and remember them.

barrel work

Here is some of the work I've done on the barrel. You can see I block out the trees with masking tape so I can paint in the background. Looks better than trying to paint around trees, rocks or other objects. Here is some more work on the model too.

New Barrel

Here's some of the work I've done on this year's barrels for the Paris Art Walk. You can see where I trace my drawing onto some tracing paper, and then I transferred it to the black barrel. After that I started drawing in the landscape. I'm more comfortable drawing the landscape directly on the barrel than I am the model. I like doing that on paper more. More accuracy.

Space Art

A friend sent me a video of someone making Space Art with spray cans and it reminded me of some of my space art I was making until about 2005 or so. It was fun, but I wanted to paint more of the beautiful land I was seeing when I hiked. With beautiful women added to give it a Human perspective. Like a Kentucky Casper David Friedrich. But I decided to show one of my older style paintings because even though they were not real, they were pretty cool. I sod this one at my student art show when I graduated Art School. It's titled, Mountain Sunset. I'm better at painting than titles.

Barrel art!

It's time for me to again paint a barrel for the Paris ArtWalk later this year. I decided to paint one image instead of two. Two seems right since you can only see one side at a time, but I want to put a stronger emphasis on just one image this year. I have had the barrels in the papers and advertisements before and I'm always a little bugged that one one image is shown, and sometimes it's not the one I'd have chose. I'm using an image that Robin posed for. I've been meaning to use her for a painting, she's a great model. Her is the drawing I've started, but I have adjusted her arm and chin since this picture was taken. Hopefully I'll get a lot this weekend.

Yahoo Arch

I made some adjustments for this one, titled Yahoo Arch. I darkened the inside of the Arch and brightened the outside. I also added some ice that had fell from the ice sickles onto the ground. And I played with the light effects on the inside from the opening above. I think I'm done. Oh, I also added some sticks and rocks. If you ever go to Southern Kentucky, visit this place, it's really neat.

Yahoo Arch

I don't often do pure landscape paintings, but this is one. It's of a very special rock arch we found in the Big South Fork. I want to be known as a Kentucky Painter and I do try and document specific Kentucky places in my art. I was challenged once by a critic as to why I don't paint close ups of the models in my paintings( I do, just not as often as she wanted I guess). I told her that the models were not the only subjects in the art, but the places too. I hike a lot and I'm always looking for new places I want to paint. I've never seen an Arch like this one and knew I had to paint it. I have more to do, but this is what I've got so far.