Grocery Bags acrylic painting

Groceries 6in. x 6in. (15.2cm x 15.2cm) acrylic on gessoed Masonite® $150.00
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Watermelon Wedges: First draft

I just started a new painting, again using a colored ground, but this time a red ground to enhance the color of the watermelon.

5in. x 7in. (12.7cm x 17.8cm ) acrylic on gessoed Masonite®
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It’s always exciting to see the lively colors popping out, so I thought I would share this with those of you who watch my blog. Last time several people thought the painting was finished right away, but if you see it “in the flesh” you would know it needs more work. If you are truly an expressionist by nature, you will probably want me to stop now and not finish what I intended. This is the fun of watching a painting develop. The colors will actually tame down as I continue. The trick is to stop before I go too far and lose the excitement of the work.
You can see the red ground coming through in a lot of places so this is what gives it that wild, expressive look at this point.

Green Grapes: To see a step by step Demo on using a colored ground visit artist's blog

5” x 7” (17.8 cm X 12.7 cm) acrylic on gessoed Masonite®
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I thought you might be interested in seeing the development of a painting on a colored ground. When you decide to own one of these works you will have a better feeling about the process and nature of the painting.
The purpose of a colored ground is to set the color tone for the ambient light in the work.

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Terraces, Terraces As Far As The Eye Can See

I tried to experiment with a mix of Classical Realism, Impressionism and a bit of subliminal expressionism in this acrylic landscape painting of China terraces.

Many Chinese people don’t feel they’ve eaten unless they have had their rice for each meal, breakfast, lunch or dinner, it doesn’t matter. No wonder there are rice terraces in the countryside as far as one can see and beyond.

This painting is a further development of the posting on December 19, 2006. I decided to go back and focus on the landscape in the terraced fields in addition to the water buffalo. The terraces in the distance just keep going up the mountainside. It created an interesting depth of field I tried to capture here.

Rice Terraces
5in. x 7in. (12.7cm x 17.8cm ) acrylic on gessoed Masonite®
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Mountain peaks in the Qionglai Mountain Range

Mountain Passage: Four Girls Mountain
5” x 7” (12.7cm x 17.8cm) acrylic on gessoed board $125 unframed
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In China, I’ve hiked, backpacked, climbed and ridden horseback up more mountains than I have anywhere else in the world. This is part of the Qionglai Mountain Range at the eastern end of Hengduan Mountains in Sichuan Province. The peaks are between 6,250 meters and 4,000 meters and you can see the vegetation line where the snow overtakes any vegetation year around. The sky is clear even in China at this altitude.

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Hei Long Tan Park Temple

Hei Long Tan Park Temple
5in. x 7in. (12.7cm x 17.8cm ) acrylic on gessoed Masonite®
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We came upon this temple in Li Jiang, Yunnan Province in a place called Hei Long Tan Park. It is one of the most beautiful temples I’ve seen in China because of its repetition of forms and almost white color scheme. I think the visual image speaks for itself.

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