San Francisco Cable Cars Painting-Timelapse

Here is a one minute time lapse video of my latest painting, one of cable cars from a photo I took when we visited San Francisco. The finished painting is posted off to the right.

Finishing Methods - Painting 1

I finally decided to use a toothbrush to apply the lights and shadows in the lower left of Painting 1. I could not use timelapse because I had to lay the canvas horizontally. Then I 'spritzed' wet paint off the toothbrush over/through a template I cut out. This helped to cause a more realistic effect of light and shadows. In both paintings 1 and 2, I took some artistic license in interpreting the scene in terms of light, shadow and color, to some extent. The image of the paintings don't quite capture what I see, IMHO.

Working on Two Paintings

I am attaching the time-lapse videos to go along with these. The 'almost-finished' paintings are posted in the column to the right. Some painting sessions go really well. It's just so easy. I have something in mind and it translates to the canvas with just modest effort. Other sessions are a prison riot. Something's wrong and I don't know why and I can't correct it. I try and I try and I try. That's what you see on the video. What should be a thirty to forty-five second video turns into a three minute marathon (more like a few hours in real time). I will say that the ultimate result is satisfactory and I always learn something more along the way. If everything was easy I wouldn't be learning.

Both of these paintings are places along where I play golf. A cemetery. A landscape scene. The light was right so I took a picture and am now using them for painting.

Opening of Attleboro Exhibit

Today was the opening reception for the Members' Exhibit at the Attleboro Arts Museum. We got there a little early. I was very impressed with the level of talent and the size of the exhibition. There were 301 pieces entered by 155 artists. I didn't do a count but the areas of photography and oil painting were most well represented. A number of awards were given out. My own thought was that abstract art was well represented in the exhibits but even more represented in the awarded pieces. I believe and my hope is that my membership will allow me to: 1) obtain much more exposure than just my Taunton Art Association membership will provide; and 2) work toward a higher level of excellence in my work.

The number of viewers of my work should increase many fold. The speaker at the awards ceremony indicated that at a prior 4 day showing, 1400 people had gone through the gallery. There is no charge.The exhibit is open almost daily through the end of January. That's a lot of time. I noticed that a sale of one of the paintings had occurred (red spot). I would expect that more will be sold before the end of the show.

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Third Painting of Season

I've started on three more canvases this morning. I'll be using timelapse video for each. In the meantime, here is my third painting of this winter season. It was a daylight scene that was not coming out like I wanted, so I've turned it into a night scene with better results (IMHO).

Second Painting

This is a limited timelapse for the beginning of my second painting. It's a look down Gulliver Street toward Route 44 at the Segregansett Country Club. The finished painting may be seen at the right.

First Painting of the Season

Here is a timelapse video of the first few days of working on my first painting of the winter. I had a little issue trying to capture the video from an iPad and an iPhone, so it doesn't go to the completion of the painting. I got about half way through before I switched to the iPhone. Anyway, I have the finished painting below. It is a fall season early morning scene at the Segregansett Country Club looking from behind the 17th green back to the tee and 16th fairway and beyond.