Showing posts with label Waterfalls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Waterfalls. Show all posts

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Post 48: Koi Pond in Louisa, Virginia 15x30 Acrylic on Canvas 2021 Commissioned Painting

Painting Name: Koi Pond in Louisa, Virginia

SKU: 01F21ACG
Medium:  Acrylic
Size:  15x30 Stretched Canvas
Price: Not Available
Edition Year: 2021
Commissioned? Yes

About this Painting…

Wouldn't it be great if every yard had room for a koi pond, or at least a water feature? 




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Location: Woodbridge, VA, USA Louisa, VA 23093, USA

Saturday, January 9, 2021

Post 46: A Painting in Progress: Koi Pond in Louisa, Virginia

Painting Name: Koi Pond Louisa, Virginia

SKU: 01F21ACG
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 15x30 Stretched Canvas
Price: Sold
Edition Year: 2021
Commissioned? Yes

My second commissioned painting in a month!!

Painting in Progress Images…

The gesso phase of a canvas is just UNINTERESTING but a necessary step. Even when the quality canvases have "primed 3 times" on them, well, I'm still priming it. The paint sits better on the canvas, the surface isn't so grainy. So I'm not doing a picture of a white canvas getting gesso'd with white gesso. Sort of wax on wax off. Fairly boring. Gesso, watch it dry, gesso, watch it dry.


1-9-2021 15x30 Heavy Duty Wrapped Canvas - I liked my light reflected in the wrap
More to come...I'm watching gesso drying...


1-10-2021 "rough draft" - the point is get a basic idea of placement and start filling in

1-11-2021 it is starting to look like something

1-11-2021 long way to go but the stars of the show are starting make an appearance

1-11-2021 late in the evening now, back at it tomorrow. I'm liking it and hope you all do too!


11-12-2021 Koi Pond in Louisa, Virginia is coming along. How many fish do you see?

11-13-21 A few more things to do and probably some shadow tweaking (or twerking) and finalize the edges. Final photos will be when completed. I had an idea for something too...

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Location: Woodbridge, VA, USA Louisa, VA 23093, USA

Monday, January 4, 2021

Post 41: Great Falls National Park in McLean, Virginia 11 x 14 Acrylic on Canvas

Painting Name: Great Falls National Park in McLean, Virginia

SKU: 01C21ACG
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 11x14 Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas
Price: SOLD
Framed?: No
Edition Year: 2021
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About this painting...



I was born in Alexandria, Virginia many moons ago and spent all the way to the 7th grade in what used to be Bryant Middle School and starting in Bucknell Elementary School. Then we moved to Louisa, Virginia where I went to high school. 

As a family when my brothers and I were young, I remember an outing to go to Great Falls in Fairfax County on nice summer day. Seems as if it took forever to get there as my mother and father spun tails of a grand day of seeing the waterfalls and other marvelous things. It may have been with cousins or family friends - if I recall correctly, a bunch of us and a picnic. The falls were impressive. But even more impressed upon my then young mind was that there was a carousel.

Colorful and wonderful, a carousel. White painted ponies swirling and bobbing up and down to the music - we HAD to ride the carousel. And that presented a purpose and a goal - the Golden Ring.

As the carousel circled, if you reached out and were able to nab a ring, the Golden Ring specifically, you won. 

What did we win? Slips memory and I may be able to ask my mom but it seems like another free ride on the carousel. We were discussing my next painting of Great Falls a few days ago and she said she had pictures of that day.

Maybe I can get copies of those pictures!

Now, the Great Falls National Park is not so far away from me. The ride only takes forever whenever the traffic is bad. (It's Northern Virginia, there is a laugh.)

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Location: Woodbridge, VA, USA Great Falls Park, 9200 Old Dominion Dr, McLean, VA 22102, USA
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