Deep Waters

Will the fish be able to unlock this heart? Maybe the octopus can help.
"Deep Waters" 8x8 inches, acrylic on panel. Genre: animals
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Fish With a Key

"Fish with a Key" Acrylic on panel, size 4x6 inches, genre: animals. I love visual puns, so that's what this is about. What the key represents is a mystery, left to the viewer's interpretation.

The Way I Know

"The Way I Know" acrylic on 20 x 16 streched canvas. Genre:  figure. The writing on it says, "If this is just the way I know, then the way I know is just."

This was done from a live model, then once I got it home, started playing with it.

What is that cat hatching?

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"What is that cat hatching?" Watercolor and ink, 5x7, on 140# cold press paper. Genre: fantasy.
Wanted to do some hatching--with pen and ink, that is. This is for Daily Paintworks "Picasso It" challenge, where you do something similar to a famous artist's style. Inspired by the art of Maurice Sendak and Arthur Rackham, with a teensy bit of Dr. Seuss thrown in.

Beginner's Mind and Conventional Wisdom, ACRYLIC PAINTING

"Beginners Mind & Conventional Wisdom" 16 x 20, acrylic on canvas, fantasy genre. This is the final version, based on the earlier small study and the clay models. Not counting the clay models and the watercolor study, it took me about 3 weeks to paint this.
The story behind it:  It's about two different viewpoints: Beginner's Mind, in which there are unlimited possibilities because problems have yet to be encountered, and Conventional Wisdom, which sees possibilities as limited due to past experience or the experience of others. Here, the two viewpoints are having a conversation. The Owl is Beginner's Mind, and the Boogie Bird is Conventional Wisdom.

Saturday Cafe

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"Saturday Cafe" 5x7 inches, watercolor and ink on 140# coldpress paper.
This is from the Daily Paintworks "Crowd Challenge." I wanted to see how much I could change things around from the photo, so I made some of the figures into cats and birds, and then added other figures from my imagination.

Leaf Peeper, before and after, Acrylic original painting

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"Leaf Peeper" 14 x11 inches, acrylic on stretched canvas, fantasy genre. This is an old painting I redid. You can see how it used to look below. It was too dark, and needed to be lightened and brightened up. I also decided to make the Peeper's face more realistic. So now it's a completely different painting.

Painting with Acrylics TIP:
To give acrylics a richer surface that resembles oils, do not thin heavy body acrylics with water. Thin them with acrylic medium. My two favorite acrylic mediums are Liquitex Matte Medium, and Golden gloss Acrylic Glazing Liquid (not overly glossy, which I like). The Liquitex medium dries fast, and the Golden dries slow, so the two of them provide everything needed for layering. I also sometimes use just the paint itself, no water or medium added, with a dampened brush.