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Funny how things work out

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Digital Waterlouge

The above image is a digital watercolor converted from the image below. It was done on my 1Phone 6s Plus using a .99 app called Waterlogue.  

The image below is a  photo composite of 9 self portraits the I've done over the past 45 years in various mediums. The individual images are at the bottom of the post. I scaled and lined up the images on the eyes and blended them together. The impetus for this was a call for a Delaware Valley Arts Alliance online gallery show called Alterd Ego.

The question here, is the art. I think so. It's art whose value certainly isn't equivalent with 'real' watercolor or oil paintings. Hand done digital art is certainly art with the same of similar value but what about this type of image conversion? I have mastered several apps and have learned that what to feed them to achieve good results. Sort of the same as brush and palette control in painting. I'm still just astonished that someone has spend the time and energy to understand what makes watercolor work. And then has the coding chops to make it into an app.        For 99 cents.

These self portraits were done in pencil, acrylics, oils, airbrush, watercolor and pen and ink.

Apples and Onion Just about finished

This is a painting I started last year with a couple of studies. I set it aside and started the finish a couple of weeks ago. Some apples, an onion and a gasoline can. It started with apples and an orange as a word picture play. I didn't like the orange and the only thing I had around that started with the letter o was and onion. It needed a vertical mass. I had just bought the gas can for a prop and there it is. It works because raw onions give me heartburn. This is an iPhone photo so the quality isn't great but it shows the good stuff.   There are still are spots I want to 'fix' maybe. I think I set it aside for a bit and decide later.

Latest 'Kitchen Art' pieces available

They are all oiled out and ready for a new home. Just in time for the holiday season! aren't I clever. 

These pieces range from 6 x 6 inches to 8 x 10. Oil on panel all unframed. Click on the image to check availability and price.

An acorn squash

Last of this season smalls... I think. This is painted with a new paint from Mark Carder. Geneva Paints. I enjoy these little things. So small that its hard to detail and show volume. It has been a great exercise. I'll get back to them soon enough but I have some largish painting that I've been itching to do for a while. I'm going to get back into watercolors and starting a Outdoor Painting group for the spring.

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unnamed 6 x 6 oil on panel

A couple of pear paintings

The 94417 is the code used for these Read Pears at checkout. This is another in my take on 'kitchen art'. Quick sketchy. This was paint from life and to about 4 hours including set-up, prep and paint. Someone has suggested that these two fruits are having a conversation. I wonder what they're talking about.

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Rustic Pear  6 x 6 oil on panel

Before this pear went into a salad I had to give it a painting. I like pears because they come in so many varieties, colors and shapes. The fit right into my idea of 'kitchen art'.

Out of My Gourd

I can't seem to stop this kitchen art thing. This little squash came out of our garden this year. All lumpy and bumpy. This is still officially a work in progress. I'll wait a few days before I call it finished. The old box it's sitting on has become my favorite platform. This single overhead light set up is really revealing in it's simplicity. 

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Out of My Gourd  8 x 6 oil on panel

Yanni's Little Apples

I've started a series of 'Wild Apples' paintings. The one is almost done just waiting for a little glazing. The idea came from Yanni's giving me a few of his tiny unmanaged Macintosh apples. I was intrigued with the little mis-shapen things. I decided to eat one ,after much carving found it was great. I looked at them and saw another piece of 'Kitchen Art'. Then I realized the there were hundred of apple trees within just a few miles of my house. I've run around and gathered and was giving a bunch of untamed apples. Northern Spy, Macintosh, Cortland, Green Delicious and a couple of undetermined fruit. I am in the process of photographing all of them, I can't possibly paint them all while they are still fresh, for a series of paintings on panel. 6 x 6, 6 x 8, 8 x 8 and 8 x 10s. Maybe even a few watercolors.

Stay tuned.

It's been a long time. Finally Duncan.

It was a summer to forget. Projects failed, Just enough health issues to slow me down and the damn heat. Next year air-conditioning. 

This is the first painting finished in a while. It's of our 2 year old Decoverly Setter Duncan. 13x20 oil on linen. It's painted with a new paint from Geneva Fine Art . Geneva Paint are colors balanced to the limited palette of Mark Carder and manufactured to the quality and consistency that he teaches. The paints are great. They take a little getting used to as that they a thinner and longer drying the I would prefer. But the color makes up for most of their shortcomings.

This painting of Duncan was done in about 4 hours. I was able to achieve the looseness because of Geneva Paints. At first I was fuming but as it came together I was happy. 

Saying goodbye to The Red Barn.

Another of my little creations has found a new home. soon he will be in a dark box rumbling done route 81 in the back of a brown UPS truck on the way to the collector. I'll miss you Red Barn.

This was the first oil I did in my new studio a couple of years ago. We had just finished building the house and the studio was piled with stuff. I slowly carved a space and a path, set up my old easel and painted the scene of my little red tractor barn. The barn still stands though it racking seriously and the roof took a big beating last winter. This fall I'll shore up the roof and support the racking. But I'm afford it's about time to build a new tractor barn. It would cost more to repair than to build a new bigger one. I used the interior of the barn for my recent painting The Barn Clock.

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Barn Clock added to available paintings

I've made a few changes on the Barn Clock Painting. Its dried and it has a coat of GamVar varnish.

http://jimkingston.com/wetpaint/2015/2/12/barn-clock-is-finally-done-almost

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What a great painting

What can I say. I thought I had seen most of his stuff but wow this is great.

Edward Hopper (American, American Realism, 1882-1967): Untitled (Rocks and Sea), 1916-1919. Oil on wood. Whitney Museum...

Posted by I Require Art on Tuesday, June 23, 2015

An experiment in Pear futures

I have just put this little painting on action at DailyPaintWorks     http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/400561 

I am lowering the prices of many of my paintings!

Many of the prices on my recent oil and acrylic paintings are being lowered by 1/2  or more. It's time to make room for more and different pieces. Many of the changes are done and by Friday all will be online listed under Available paintings. Four new paintings will be added into the pile. I hope this moves you to consider purchasing one. If the price still seems too high make an reasonable offer. 

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Lighthouse at the End of the World   24 x 18 oil on canvas 2015

This and several others will be listed soon. They are being varnished and will be ready to ship next week.

A cheesy little painting

Here's a new little kitchen art painting of a Blue Stilton wedge. I like this cheese so much I painted it. The paint I used is the new Geneva Artists' Oil Colors by Mark Carder. It's a thinner consistency oil. Sort of like you might under-paint with but the pigment is so dense that the coverage is excellent. Just perfect for these little food paintings I'm doing. I has a long dry time so you can keep you painting and palette 'open' for a week or more!

This is an iPhone photo so the quality is negh. I haven't painted in a month being busy with a new oversized puppy and endless spring chores that will last til winter. I felt good pushing some paint around..