Genie In a Cave

 Genie in a Cave, Acrylic, 8x8 inches. 

Inside a magic cave, a beautiful Genie emerges from her bottle.

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Take a Sip

Title: "Take a Sip"

Genre: Fantasy, Fun Art

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 6x6 inches

Another exploration into an underwater still life, with a fill cup of wine. Bubbles added just for fun.

Secret Message

Title: "Secret Message"

Medium: Acrylic

Genre: Still life

Size: 6x6 inches

I love bottles and secret messages too, so here's another bottle with a message in it. The seashell, BTW is a murex. 

Message in a Bottle

Title: Message in a Bottle
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 12 x 12 inches
Genre: Magic Realism, Fantasy

The fish are mystified at the writing on the message in the bottle. Little do they know it's only a game.
Note on the colors: I couldn't get this to scan the color accurately; the message in the original painting is more golden than orange. Cadmium orange does strange things on the scanner.

Frog Demo 1

#frog #cutefrog #frogpainting

Title: Frog Demo #1
Medium: Acrylic on illustration board
Size: 6x7 inches
Genre: Animals

The other day I did a demo for the Austin Palette Club on "limited palette." This frog painting is done using only 3 colors: thalo blue and burnt sienna, plus titanium white. Yes, it really does make a green when those two colors are mixed and white is added. You have to use the "green shade" of thalo blue to make this happen; the "red shade" of thalo won't work.  Model was a toy plastic frog, set up next to a little glass bottle.

Beginner's Mind NFS

Beginner's Mind and Conventional Wisdom

Acrylic

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Frog ACEO bottle magic prince TBARTS original acrylic painting

"Princely Spirits" ACEO, 2.5 x 3.5 inches miniature, acrylics on illo board

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This Frog is eyeing the bottle, thinking maybe, just maybe...it might work some royal magic for him. Should he take a swig?

Ten minute painting challenge: 9 bottles

"Nine Bottles"

This is another of Carol Marine's challenges. A series of 10 minute paintings. Ie., each bottle is painted in 10 minutes, with a timer set. I put them all together on an 8x10 canvas, done in acrylics.

I'm taking a break from my usual style of whimsical fantasy painting to learn realism and composition better. This is also helping me paint faster and keep it fresh, which is also something I really need.

Finished Iris Still Life (Glazed Grisaille Oil Painting)

"Irises" oil on canvas, 8x10.

Got this one finished, glazes and all. Since this was my very first attempt at glazing, it got a bit alla prima towards the end. Some of my initial underpainting got too well covered.

In the past few weeks I've been reading "How To Paint Like the Old Masters" by Joseph Sheppard, and it has helped tremendously. Very informative book. If you want to glaze in oil paints, this is definitely one to read.

Even though I enjoyed painting this still life, and I know that the straight realism has tremendous appeal, I'm pretty much set on my course of doing the fantastical genre. However, I'm determined on conquering realism because the style/genre I want to paint in demands it, and if I ever get skilled enough in realism to match my imagination, that would be highly gratifying!

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