a work in progress...

Who looks through my posts anyway?  Ha! Here's another painting of a VanGogh that I started a couple weeks ago.  This is actually a prototype of a much larger and cropped version I plan to paint for a birthday present.  I'll continue to edit and add progression photos of this painting until I feel satisfied with its completion.  So here it is...

Ha!  I can't figure out how to rotate it here.  It's rotated fine in my iPhoto library.  Oh well.  This is the first night I worked on it.  I just wanted to lay a base of colors.

I actually have a "paint night" where friends come over and we paint and listen to cool, hip music.  Such bohemians. Ha!  This is the third night (in actuality, 3rd week) and I laid the base for the sky.  It'll be a less gloomy day when I'm done with it.  I really enjoy mixing colors.  

To be continued...I'll keep you (all one of you) posted of the progress...

Catching up so... Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Ten days into the New Year and I'm just now doing this... let's see, since October, a bunch of stuff has transpired.  One of them was the completion of my rendition of Van Gogh's Cafe Terrace at Night in acrylic.  I promised a few folks that I was going to post the progression of the work so here it is...

Sketch phase with a grid 

Dark Colors

Not dark colors

Filling all the white canvas

Almost done, just finishing touches

Can't tell the difference between this and the previous image

I guess I'm done.  It was a long process.  I need a deadline.