Brief History of My Early Paintworks
Visiting my mom this past Christmas, I noticed she had a stack of canvases and realized they were a mini collection of some of my earlier paintings, including one of the earliest I think I ever did (below, 1st). My brother snapped some pics of them and sent them to me yesterday so here they are.
Painting Name: Sunday was a Good Dog
Medium: Acrylic, I think
Size: ?, Canvas Panel
Edition Year: 1976
Sunday was her name and she was a GREAT dog. I remember we were living in Alexandria, Virginia and our neighbor's dog was having puppies and mom got to choose one. Half Sheep Dog and half English Spaniel I believe (will try to verify), she was an adorable puff of white fur and she LOVED, LOVED, ADORED my mom. If mom took off her slippers, Sunday would lie on them, thus ensuring mom could always find them again.
Once in elementary school, they had a Pet Show of some sort and I took Sunday. Mom gave her a bath, cleaned her all up, brushed her hair, fluffed her up and she was ready to go. My older brother carried his pet crawdad in his mini aquarium. Sunday won first place for dog or overall or something and my brother's crawdad won first place for most exotic pet.
Sunday passed away around 1975 or so. So the painting of Sunday was one of the very first paintings I ever did, if not the first.
Painting Name: A New Day Dawning
a rework copy of a Thomas Kinkade's original
Medium: Acrylic
Size: ?, Stretched Canvas
Edition Year: 2004
In another recent blog post, I have some pictures from Christmas at a friend's house of a larger version of this painting and told a bit on that story. I had actually started to paint maybe 4 or 5 canvases of the same theme. My mom had visited me a couple of years ago and saw them and wanted one. Thus, the above. It's not as completed as an earlier version, but close.
I told mom if she wants me to rework it some, there are some touchups I could do.
Painting Name: Snowy Fields and Mountains
Medium: Acrylic
Size: ?, Stretched Canvas, 2 Panels
Edition Year: 2003
Who's your greatest art fan? Your mom. Who's your greatest, oddball critics? Your family and friends, sometimes.
Anyway, my mother loves snow pictures. Ta-da! So 2 for one, right? Two split canvas panels of mountains and fields snow covered and a river runs through it. A few trees, a house, side building and if you look really close, a fox running across the field.
Painting Name: Hollyhocks - Mom's Favorite Flower
Medium: Acrylic
Size: ?, Canvas Panel
Edition Year: 2008
My mom's favorite flower is Hollyhocks. Translation: another painting for mom. If I were to do this painting again, I would redo the clouds. Somehow in my earlier days, my clouds always looked like the state of Virginia. Virginia is for Clouds I think.
So a painting of hollyhocks with some small sunflowers.
I can think of one other painting from around 1978-79 or so. I did a painting of a Siberian Husky that I had at the time in Blue Ridge Shores (in a previous life). His name was Blue Ice. A great dog with very cool blue eyes (my mother named that dog). No idea where that picture is now.
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