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The Artist Canvas
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"My grandaughter, Zoe Nicole"
July 2004. |
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Anyone can paint...I
used to paint, but children, school, jobs, and running a business
took toll on the artist side of me. Being a Gemini, there are many
sides to Val C. I love to write, but I also love to paint, so I just
renewed my interest in painting once again after a lapse of about 30
years.
Inspired by the simplicity with which Bob Ross managed to
plop paint onto a canvas and within minutes produced passable
mountain scenes, I paid a quick trip to E-Bay and hunted up Bob Ross
equipment. My first painting was a "Mountain Scene" and we just went
on from there, did another winter scene, but preferring the Kinkaid
"light" paintings, and being English, loving cottages, and sunsets
couldn't help myself. I was a total Kinkaid copycat. The water in
the Mountain scene was so much fun to do..
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The photo does not say
too much for the painting...and yes, that's my other hobby,
photography.
Val
painting "Ibis"
This painting was a small one
taken from a magazine. I had spotted a picture of some White Ibises,
and was fascinated by the wet look of the water, and so once again,
we were off into water world.
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I came across about fifteen
Thomas Kinkaid postcards in of all places a Gun Store. So, then came
the Cottage campaign.
After I finally finished the cottage,
I had enjoyed doing the flowers in the garden, so turned to the
Annette Kowalski book for painting flowers. It looked sooooo easy!
Oh, there was another Bob Ross
one I did, an autumn ice type of painting, with lots of color, golds,
yellows, and the colors of the autumn leaves.
Of course, I couldn't do all
this without a little help from my friends, hence, Sam the Parrott,
not the Husband sits and watches me paint, as long as he doesn't add
anything to the canvas!
A picture of my son when he was
about 3-4 climbing through the window of an old dilapidated log
cabin...
Sometimes I
fight with my pictures. They fight back, but in the end I win...
Justin, with no hands... Hands
are the hardest to do...He was without hands for a whole month, the
background is the wrong color and the weeds out of control! See the
finished product below.... coming soon...if I can ever find the damn
photo!!
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