I have wanted to paint a larger Iris painting for a while and since I had one more of my larger plywood pices left I thought why not make it an indoor outdoor painting. It is 4ft x4ft in size and brings with it a feeling of warm beautiful weather. I thought I would show some of the painting process.
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This is another indoor outdoor painting in a different size than I usually do. It is 4ftx4ft, surprisingly it took just as long to paint this as it did the larger size. So you just never know. Last night was 40 below zero....BERRRRRR. I hope that was the last of the crazy cold stuff. The indoor outdoor paintings are being stored in the greenhouse till spring when we can display them without freezing to death. Thankfully that will not be that long.
This big chicken was so fun to paint. A little tricky sometimes as my studio space is quite small. I can not stand back far enough to get a feeling of how things look when they are this big. A few times I went outside and looked in through the window....sounds crazy but it actually worked. This painting is on plywood and is painted in both exterior and artist acrylics that are rated for exterior use. My intention is to have the option to hang it outside.
The photo that this painting is based on is by: Artep https://flic.kr/p/6q93S I wanted to try and paint another Moose with a different perspective. When I seen this photo in Flickr I knew it was the one for me to try.
photo by: Shanthanu Bhardwaj https://flic.kr/p/p6Huup We have been having some very mild weather which is a wonderful thing. But cloud cover is the price you pay for that mild temperature. So I thought I would paint something a little brighter than I typically do. The photo this painting is based on was taken by: Thor https://flic.kr/p/68cjCc
The photo this painting is based on had cows with very unusual markings, at least to me. I have seen this colour combination on dogs, I believe they call it brindle but never on cows. It reminds me of tiger tale ice cream....YUCK. I`m not a fan of licorice. But as a fur combination...BEAUTIFUL.
Painting based on photo by: Stephane Mignon https://flic.kr/p/obVdAF I painted this one on plywood to give it the added flexibility to be hung outdoors. Its a medium size painting but being that the subject is a small flower it seems huge. I found this one difficult to photograph, the low light of winter is working aganist me and added lighting just makes a glare. So this one is the best I could do.
When I saw the photo this painting was based on it really reminded me of when we had dairy cows. At the time being a kid I could not appreciate the amount of work that went into having dairy cows but now I miss the routine. We had a small operation in todays standards but it suited our small family. Growing up there were multible dairy farms within a couple of miles. They are all gone now. The milk truck would come to pick up the milk a couple times a week. The milk was kept in a large stainless steel tank in what we called our milk house, the mainly concrete room kept the milk quite cool in the tank. We used to drink milk by the gallons, just dip our jug in and fill it up. How I wish we had digital cameras then, so many memories could have been captured. But being a kid I might not have realized how precious a visible record would have been. So instead I rely on beautiful photos taken by other people that capture a kin to my memories.
This photo this is based on was taken by Thomas Rousing https:/flic.kr/p/nTWan The photo this painting is based on was taken by a friend of mine while walking where she lives in Toronto. Although a bit blurry, it was a great capture so I got her permission to give it a go. Its a simplistic, impressionist style that is a bit more about the colours used than the details.
This painting is a result of finding a photo that inspires me to spend the many hours needed to create a likeness. It is like finding buried treasure for me.
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