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What's on my easel?
Hi, and welcome to my site! I hope you'll have time to look around and check things out.
If you've been keeping up, you'll notice that my studio is getting cleaner all the time! It helps creativity if you know where everything is and aren't bothered by clutter.
Here we have a painting I did for a charity art-a-thon a couple of weeks ago. We were allowed 4 hours to paint (I did 2 paintings), with a silent auction going on all day.
I loved this painting! It had only come together at the last minute, but when it showed itself, it did so with a bang! I was disappointed that it didn't make money for the Gulf wildlife fund, but it's back home and I can tweak it a bit more for my own taste.
It's called "Hawkman 24121," and if you look hard you can see the hawk staring back at you!
My latest painting...
To advertise my new domain name, "www.RealPaintedPortraits.com", I held a contest for a free painted portrait. My winner was Tori Pagac, who requested a portrait of Dina Meyer playing "Oracle" in the TV series Birds of Prey.
The picture Tori furnished me was very low resolution and flat, but it had a marvelous clockwork background that invoked the "Clocktower" in which the Birds and especially Oracle operated. So when I tracked down a high res picture with a different pose of Dina, I kept the original background and adjusted the colors on the figure and wheelchair to coordinate.
Right now it's drying, since it was painted in oil, but hopefully soon Tori will have it to hang on the wall of her choice!
I often talk about my work or how you can paint, too, on my blog. Come by and take a look!
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