finished 5/12: oils, 30x40 canvas. i can officially check off "rip-off van gogh painting" from my bucket list. my brother and sister-in-law requested the irises, and this was my reproduction of it.
oils, 4'x5' stretched canvas. yes, you read that correctly--4 feet x 5 feet. this was a final project for an art class i took in college. i missed the class we stretched our own canvases. this frame was left over from a student from another semester, so rather than take time to build my own, i used it and stretched my canvas so i could start painting this beast. this is from a photograph my brother took in italy--i think from the island murano or burano. it is now hanging in their house.
i like to be free-flowing and quick with the oils--inspirations: van gogh and early cezanne (before he went cubist), harry anderson, walter rane. this leaves more room to focus on light playing with shades and shapes, and residual texture on the canvas. self portraits 11x14 store-bought canvas, oils.
abstract, oils, palette knife used for the black/red textural section. i think this was a 16x20 canvas? this was my dad's favorite, so it's now on his wall. he sent me these photos so i could add it here.
still life, i think on a 16x20 canvas, oils
still life, 16x20, oils. i really tried to follow the "old" way of painting with oils (lots of linseed oil and other mediums to stretch the paint)--this took a long time and had many revisions and layers.
