Murals, Murals, and Art Art Art!

This is a big post.

I am almost done my third hands portrait, started a fourth, and have visions for a fifth.

I also got a new job that came down from Heaven tied with a bow. For this new job (at a new daycare/cafe in town called The Children's Piazza-- check it out!!!) I was asked to paint italian-themed murals on the play area walls. 

Here are some pictures of the finished work, followed by my Hands and Cloth series progress:

Hands #3 progress (sideways):

Hands #4, one:

Hands #4, two:

Hands #4, three:

A special "Thank you" to my Luke Bowen for posing for this most recent painting.

And thank you all for following!

Number Two = DONE

Number Three = In Progress...

Thanks, Meg Lynch, for your hand-posing!

About time.... Third painting of series has begun.

Trying out the Watercolors again

Second Hands - Cloth Painting Progress

Yikes! I've missed the boat for August and September posts. It's been a busy end of the summer. I finally got to work more on this painting, thankfully. If all goes well, I have tentative plans with a friend to have my work displayed at his coffee shop in March. I'm hoping to have at least four finished by then.

For now, enjoy these pictures of my progress and my messy studio space.

Second Painting of Hand-Cloth Series

(In progress)

Session One

Session Two

July almost got away without a post! Here's what I'm up to. My personal painting time has been scarce, but it is coming along slowly.

Graduation and Good Friends

Oil on Wood stump, approx. 2' diameter, 1.5" depth.

My good friend Carl (right) asked me to paint a portrait of him and his sister Katie (left) as a gift for her college graduation. In an attempt to split the wood to make a diptych, the wood was put through a "seasoning" process by experimental sessions of heating in a conventional oven. Nature vs. me, nature had its say and split the wood in three. This worked out well for a nice triptych. The project was fun, as well as very intimidating. Katie is a wonderful painter, and painting a portrait of a painter FOR the breath-taking painter herself is quite a nervous task! It was my pleasure to muscle through it and produce something for these amazing people that will last (hardly) as long as their strong and loving characters.