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"Eileen Adele Hale: Painting a Day" - 5 new articles
No new PAD to show, just checking inI just want to see if my old blogger theme, and the ability to change the layout, will restore themselves if I publish a new post... Well - no... darn...     Lukie - in progress This is Lukie, another Belgian shepherd. This, like Shilo's portrait, is 8" x 10", oil on masonite. The photo of the painting is rather Q&D (quick & dirty), so the yellowed newsprint the painting is sitting on shows around the edges, and you can see that the painting isn't properly squared in the photo. I didn't want to crop it, as I want the full painting showing.
This started out with a wild and fun underpainting in vivid blue and orange, lavender for the couch and green for the rug, cushion and wall. Lukie's bandana, which in reality is blue - and which will be blue when the painting is finished - has been underpainted in lavender as well. I enjoyed alluding to the floral print on the couch, in a vague and juicy impressionistic way.   Shilo's Portrait: Improved & Finished I did some more work on Shilo's eyes, and on his right ear (left side, in the painting). This necessitated working the rock and the tree trunk in the background, a bit. I also darkened Shilo's back end; in the photo it was gleaming in the sun, but in the painting it needed to be darker in order for his coat to look black.
I think that'll do it. SOLD   Portrait of ShiloPath for Kaiya
Path for Kaiya, 2009 I wrote this post, oh, back in April - 2009!!! And forgot it was waiting for me to publish it - oy, vey.
Watercolor on Strathmore textured paper, 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"
Wind blowing, mushroomy things, a roller-coaster feel - or more likely just one of those bumpy slides at a playground; rocking waves on a pond; and maybe a birthday party, bright with ribbons and balloons; these are things that might be evoked here. This is for my granddaughter Kaiya, who just turned 5 and is an Aries - the best! (The fact that I said that is how you know I'm an Aries too. It doesn't prove Aries are the best - but it definitely points to Aries thinking they're the best. I do.) What else can I say about it? There it is. This is one of my favorites. P.S.: you can see the texture of the textured paper here. SOLD   More Recent Articles |
