House Commission 4

Today I delivered the fourth house commission received from the Hyde Park Art Show. I started several paintings in December, but this wound up being only the second completed. The rest need more work or will wind up in the trash.

I was also getting ready to archive my photos of work from this last year and noticed some missing. I'll have to go back and take pix and post them here. Looks like I completed 75 paintings in 2010.

Happy New Year!
Don

Fence Row

I just completed this 11 x 14 view of the "Fence Row" along Linn Road in Liberty Township. I was feeling a little cold this week (a couple inches of snow due tomorrow), so I went back to my photos of trumpet flowers in high Summer.

House Portrait 3

Today I delivered the third house portrait commission I received from the Hyde Park Art Show. This was a little more difficult due to the home being located in the Houston, Texas area. I worked from photographs supplied by the clients and their daughter, who owns the home. Just try to direct a photo shoot two people removed!

Clients were very happy with the result and I hope their daughter and her family will be too!

Warren County Holiday Tidings

I have four paintings in a show that opened Saturday night at Gallery 42 in Mason. Here are the two that I did specifically for the show, "1899 West 1" and "1899 West 2". My paintings won't be on State Representative Pete Beck's holiday greetings card this year, but Chuck Marshall's will be. Check out this photo to see what will be on the card: Chuck's Winner ... and my good friend Barb Pask took second place in the same show. Here's her painting: Barb's Winner

These paintings are different views of the same French-Bauer (a former local Cincinnati dairy) farm on State Route 63, West Main Street a couple miles West of Lebanon, Ohio. I'll be going back there to do additional work. There are some views of the fields and the barns, with those wonderful green roofs, I'd love to get on canvas.

MAP Monday

I finished this 8x10 painting, started at MAP group last week, this Monday. Titled "Fern Stairs– Natorp's" it is based on one of the photos taken before the Women's Night Out plein air evening we had at Natorp's Garden Center in Mason last June.

Home Commission 2

I was able to deliver the second of the house commissions received after the Hyde Park Art Show. This is the Romero-Cowdrey house in Hyde Park. This work was also a compilation of images that I took on site and those supplied by the clients. After discussing the possibility of a Winter snow scene, we decided to portray the home in Spring. I cut back on the flowering dogwoods and azaleas to keep from overwhelming the details of the house. And no, the dogs did not pose for their portrait.

House Commission

I just delivered the first of the house painting commissions I received from the Hyde Park Art Show. This is the Kempton-Osterhage home in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky. The 12" x 16" oil on canvas was executed from photos I took on site and some supplied by the clients. Since I was there in the fall and they wanted to include features from the spring, I worked between photos to better reflect that season.