"Twin Pines"

Twin Pines

Wow, it's been quite a while since I posted anything! 

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We've been a little distracted by the "little human", as my daughter calls our precious granddaughter.

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​And there is always fishing to get in the way of doing anything constructive.

And I have also been suffering from painter's block.  I started a couple of paintings early this year, got the initial sky and foreground in "Twin Pines" but struggled with another painting of a picture I took of a rainbow trout I caught last year.  I tried three attempts at the trout painting and did not like something in all three!  Well, I finally got back to "Twin Pines" and finished it.  It is based on a photo taken by Marshall McIver, a friend of my wife.  It is a half sheet painting approximately 13"X20" and will eventually be framed in a jatoba frame with either maple or red oak inlays.  It will be available for $450 after I build a frame for it and have the image digitized for potential prints and greeting cards.  I hope you enjoy it.

"Snowy Morning" is another of my paintings based on Marshall's work.  She took both the photos on the same wintery morning right after a snow several years ago and I have enjoyed working with the lighting and subject mater that she captured.