Apple Blossoms: Signs of Spring

                 Apple Blossoms: Signs of Spring
5 in X 7 in (12.7 cm X 17.8 cm) acrylic on hand primed board

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This is a reposting of an earlier painting done in 2007. It was sold in the gallery rather than online. Some paintings are just difficult to see the subtleties of color and texture online. This was one of those paintings. It sold almost immediately when it was hung in the gallery even though it had been online for several years. This tells me that both kinds of exposure can be needed for the artists work. The luminous quality of the computer screen can show some things to advantage with the use of additive colors of light, while some tones and textures can be diminished that way and I’ve found it’s not always easy to predict which way will be best.
Even though the “detail view” statistics were good on this painting online it never really connected in the same way it did in a gallery. Part of that may have been the framing in the gallery, but I suspect it was the light in the gallery and on computer that made the difference.

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The Old Crib Door: Wood Barn Textures

                                 The Old Crib Door
8" x 6" (20.3 cm X 15.2 cm) acrylic on gesso primed board unframed with free shipping in USA and Canada

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This reminded me of the old days back on the farm where the corn for livestock and chickens was stored in a “corn crib” at the end of the barn. As I remember the crib was separated from the barn by a drive thru and had a slanted roof going down from the east end of the barn. The wall and door boards were spaced apart to allow air to flow through the crib to help dry the corn still on the cob. Now farmers have expensive metal silos with equipment to circulate and dry corn that is already shelled before it goes into the silo. So many things have changed since those days so this painting brings back the smell of corn,  hay, and wood in the barn that will always be a part of my experience.

Making the textures seem real helps to bring back those memories, but I once had a collector who thought that I’d sold him a reproduction rather than an original, apparently because he didn’t think that fine detail could be painted so small. Of course the quick way to tell if something is a reproduction is to use a magnifying glass called a “Loupe” used by graphic artists and jewelers. If you can see a dot pattern or pixels then it is a reproduction. On an original painting you will only see the detail of brush strokes the artist put there.

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Three In A Row: ABC Toy Blocks

Classic antique wooden childrens abc blocks

6” x 8” acrylic on gessoed board unframed $175 with free shipping in US and Canada
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There is an old saying that “everything comes in threes”. It can be called a self-fulfilling prophecy, because we often look for this pattern. We see threes in the color wheel primary colors, the trinity, the fleur de lis, and the rule of three in English writing such as three musketeers, three little pigs, Goldilocks and the three bears, and The Three Blind Mice.
So it was only natural that I chose these three blocks in a row as abc to paint. This painting however took me back to my basic design class study where I was required to draw and then paint a cube and pay attention to the way the light reflected off the different surfaces of the cube. It’s an old principle that is still an interesting one to study.


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Prairie House

 
Original painting of house on the prairie

5” x 7” (12.7cm x 17.8cm) acrylic on hand primed board unframed $125 with free shipping in USA and Canada.

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This house on the Prairie had a presence that reminded me of family and experiences growing up on a farm in the Midwest. It was something about the light, texture and cool colors of the surfaces that seemed a part of the past. It seemed familiar as if I’d been here many times before, so I had to paint it. Even though it was abandoned there seemed to be something there that drew my attention.
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