Showing posts with label 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2010. Show all posts

Mt.Timpanogos


8x10 Acrylic on panel, © 2010
Private Collection

In June of 2010, I attended an oil painting workshop with Bob Rohm on The Painterly Approach to landscape painting.  It was held in Fremont, Nebraska as part of the Association of Nebraska Art Clubs' (ANAC) annual conference. It is always an inspiration to be with people from all over the state who have come together from diverse backgrounds, because they feel a common bond in focusing on creating something that did not exist before. The workshop was excellent, and Bob is a great instructor and very helpful in directing people to change their individual modi operandi to assume more of what they hope to become.  In that setting, I painted this small piece.  It was challenging for lyrical lines to appear and to have the brush respond to unfamiliar approaches.  I think that the painting worked, and it reminds me of the evening spent walking along the Provo River with my family and the time I spent with a marvelous artist.

Handwork #1: Friendship

8x10 acrylic on panel, © 2010
Private Collection

I have had an idea for a series of paintings—Handwork... . This is the first in the series; Handwork #1: Friendship. My granddaughter was making friendship bracelets, and I thought that would make an interesting painting. The Winter Art show came up, and I thought I would give it a go. I always see improvements, but for one who paints so rarely, I thought it turned out quite well.

Recognition: Won fourth place (of 70 exhibits) in the Omaha Artists' Winter Art Show.

Arco Truck


8x10 acrylic on canvas, © 2010 
Collection of the Artist 

Art shows are motivational. In my case the Winter Art Show of Omaha Artists Inc. came up with the small-art format—two adjacent dimensions could not be over 18 inches. Well, we had taken a trip to Arco, ID two years ago, and I took a photo that I used as reference material on a friend's ranch. I decided that it would work into a nice composition, so I painted it and entered it into the show a few days later.