Dad

Here is a portrait I painted of my dad. I gave it to my mom a few days ago and she asked me to post it. Here it is mom! Dean

old and new

Here are three paintings I recently worked on. The first is a painting I did last night with the brush-ka-teers of cotton. I really liked the simplicity of style I tried. I was very pleased with the iron and leaving the lighter orange around the edges of it. I learned about a "wash" too. The next painting is of Tryon palace garden gate. I re-did the flowers and their background to help them stand out more. I also re-did the old pump pic with just a lighter green backing to help the pump have a bit more prominence. Thanks for looking and as always, feel free to comment. Dean

Snow Barn

This a painting from a picture I took during the snow storm last year. It is a 16x20. That is a big piece for me! Up close I speckled snow flakes on it. I painted it on a tuesday night paint out with the "brush-ka-teers" ! Their work is beautiful and I will post pics later. I have been doing more paintings I have just been remiss on posting. Will try to keep up with it now. As always, feel free to comment. Dean

Last Catch

Here is a picture I painted with Mitchell Morton. He had a photograph in which we painted from. Personally, I really like this picture. The subject and the colors go well together.

Here are a few new pictures I have done . The first is right out of my head with a pic to look at. I felt like I was doing a paint by number. The second is a street in downtown Trenton, NC. I had a bunch of fun with color and trying different things . SOLD this one today!

Melons for everyone!

Here are a few melons we painted last tuesday. We had a blast! The first one is Bernie's, then Steven, Mitchell then mine. I could not seem to get the color of the exterior right so I changed it! Anyway, I also zoomed in really close so I would not have as much to paint too! Once again it was great fun for the "brush-ka-teers"! As always, feel free to comment, Dean

compliments exercise

Thought I would have some fun with this one. I painted everything in its complimentary color. So all the red was really green, orange blue. I took liberty and just painted the tree trunk blue because I wanted to. As always feel free to comment, Dean

Watermelons galore!

We were overwhelmed with watermelons last night! Last night was the gathering of the "4 brush-ka-teers"! We painted watermelons. I really thought they would be extremely difficult but they were not as hard as I anticipated. It was all we could do to keep from eating the still life! Ha! But it did go home with Bernie so who knows its fate as of today. The first picture is the still life itself. The next is Mitchell's, then Stephen's, Bernie's and lastly mine. We all had a great time and and loads of fellowship and learning. As always feel free to comment. Dean

Another small one

This is another 4"x8" painting. Any suggestions are welcome, Dean

SOLD

Getting there

Here are a couple of pictures I did that are getting closer to a style I would like to be able to paint better. If that made sense ??? Anyway, I like impressionism or maybe minimalism (if that is even a style). I would like to be able to insert something into a picture with minimal amount of strokes. Well. here they are anyway. They are 4"x8" so double click to enlarge the images. Thanks for looking, Dean

New pics

Here are 2 new pics I painted this weekend. These are my 1 hours. I am trying to paint faster and are trying to do a pic in an hour. So far so good. It is a lot of fun to push at it. thanks for looking. Dean

old barn

Tonight I painted an old barn. I had never tried one in acrylics. I am learning how to get a focal point and building in layers. This is a 6x8 and I did it in an hour. I am trying to push myself by limiting time so I keep the painting loose and fun. Feel free to comment, Dean

festival

Here is a pic I painted of two blues men that were playing in trenton at the heritage festival this weekend. I had painted something else while I was there but it was a wash. I painted this sunday at home from a pic I took. As always, feel free to comment, Dean

SOLD!

redo

Had a redo! I heard from various people that the lighthouse was not "reading" correctly. I took the painting to Bernie to get some ideas. He said it was too "cut and paste" and needed some dimension. We talked about adding shading and I agreed so here it is. Thanks for bearing with me in my mistakes and giving me constructive help. Thanks for looking, Dean

Taking my time

Here is a picture I painted. I used a picture of rocks for a reference. I thought that was all it would be but I was wrong. The next day I added trees on the rocks with birds. The day after that I added the rock with the lighthouse. I let it sit for a day and then added a color sunset along with the color in the water and on the rocks. As for the final product this is as far as I am going. This is 24x24".

Thanks for looking, Dean

Acrylics again!

I sat down for an hour this afternoon and tried acrylics again. This one is only 6x8... inches! I do not know when I will try a big one again! Ha! Thanks for looking. Dean

Sold!

back at it

I took another swipe at the big painting. I worked the head and board better. Now I am officially done with this. I will be making a frame for it this weekend if I get time. Should be fun, Thanks for looking, Dean

SOLD!

BIG!

Well I went plein aire painting this morning at 7am. It was quite interesting for two reasons. The first was that I painted acrylics for the first time outside. I really had to keep the water on the canvas. That leads to the second interesting topic, the canvas. The canvas was a 4 foot by 4 foot piece of plywood! Yes I said foot!!!!! It is huge! The biggest painting I have ever done! It was definitely a new experience. Thanks for looking, Dean

Daisy

I was asked the other day to paint a picture of my horse for someone's child. I thought it would be fun so I did. Here is the picture I took then what I painted. I am enjoying NOT painting everything I see. I am going to work on simplifying. I am sure it will be fun. Thanks for looking and as always, feel free to comment. Dean

something new

last night I watched artist videos on Jerry art-o-rama site. I then got out a 16x20 canvas and tried to make a pic. I watched how Wilson Bickford did skies. Then I did one. Then watched how he did clouds. Did some. Then grass..... Then a tree. The road an the person are me so Wilson is off the hook. I learned some interesting techniques. I will definitely work on the clouds/grass and trees. They were easy and usable in my plein aire outings with "OOPS". Thanks for looking, Dean