Hello again painting fans.
This week I will be continuing with the Grand Canyon painting. The photo that I’m using is seen directly below. I’ll be using my usual acrylic paints on a 6×6 inch canvas.
When last seen the painting appeared as it does in the photo seen directly below.
Since that time I have continued to work on the painting.
I have continued to refine the scene. The edges of various elements are now sharp and no white is seen. I’ve also began to add color to better differentiate the distant buttes. The distant shadowed portion is different as well. Up front I’ve begun the banding of color.
The current state of the painting is seen in the photo directly below.
I’ll have more progress to show you next week. See you then.
Earlier paintings in this series can be seen here.
Open it is.
That painting is really coming along.
Remnants of our Halloween decorations:
That is some spider infestation you have there.
One of my kids is in charge of the Halloween decor each year. Oddly enough, I have quite a fondness for spiders, so I was glad she went with this theme this time around.
Heh,
In our household spiders are revered, except black widows.
We never had the large orb weavers that locally are called ‘ grove spider ‘. But 10-15 years ago I did a job that had tons of them, so I started bringing females home and releasing them. Now their great great great (x 10) grand daughters are still here.
And two weeks ago the painters discovered them and started freaking out. I warned them, ‘kill one at your own risk’.
They make HUGE webs. Several feet across. It’s not pleasant to walk into one.
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Another spider story,
I used to keep this spider
They were kept in small plastic animal cages in my den. Sometimes my wife’s back would bother her, and she would sleep on the very comfortable couch in my den. But she would frequently be woken up in the middle of the night by a tapping sound. This went on for weeks.
Then she took a flashlight with her and crept over to the sound and suddenly clicked on the flashlight. And there was a seven inch spider, up on its hind legs, tapping the side of its cage with its front legs, fangs exposed.
It was sold away that week.
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We love the artistry of the orb weavers and had several around the yard this summer. One kept tying the web anchors to the car from the carport roof and I hated to have to take the car out. Eventually it gave up the location and moved over to a wooden roof brace on the side.
It does not matter. They rebuild every night. They take down the old one and reuse the silk that is left.
They only live one season. The female hatches in the spring, grows up and mates, then lays her eggs in a the fall in some crack, then she dies (the spider that freaked my painters is now gone). Then in the spring the cycle begins again.
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My remodel is coming along. I’m drywalled, and the outside is lathed.
Lots of hours over the last two weeks to get everything ready for drywall and lathe.
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