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Context: Beach House II

10/5/2022

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"Beach House II" shown outside and in my library.  54" x 60" is very large - I could barely get it up the stairs from my studio.  It took forever to get the right shade of yellow, and I'm really loving how it turned out.  
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Shipping Paintings!

10/5/2022

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Packing up "Waves Roll Away From the Shore" for shipping to Washington DC.

I know it's a little hard to see, but the blue paint is actually a mosaic of the reversed side of a latter color.  I work in layers, and I wasn't entirely happy with the bottom part of the painting, so I scraped it off.  The back side of the dried paint was much more intriguing, so I flipped the pieces over and stuck them back on, giving that section of the canvas a significantly different look and texture than the rest.

This one was a lot of fun to make, but the oils took forever to dry!
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Context: It's Electric!

10/5/2022

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It's always fun to see just how big a 7' canvas is in reality.  This one is currently brightening up my living room, with a 50" plasma tv for scale. I love the bright colors!
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"Where the Water Lilies Grow" in the 2022 Angad Art Hotel biennial.

10/5/2022

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"Where the Water Lilies Grow" was chosen for the Angad Art Hotel's 2021 biennial.  Building the frame for this was a fun challenge, and this is a good way to see how large a 48x60 canvas really is!
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