I painted this as a birthday gift for my wife Kathy. Usually as an anniversary or birthday gift she'll receive a painting that is an experiment or one-off from me, so she kind of acts as a trial balloon audience for me. In this case, however, she had a specific request which is the painting you see here. Some of the paintings Kathy has received in the past:
33 acrylic on canvas 24" x 30" 2005
34 acrylic on canvas 16" x 20" 2006
Don Pedro Oak acrylic on canvas 16" x 20" 2007
Bloody Mountain acrylic on canvas 16" x 20" 2007
Bob and Kathy oil on canvas 18" x 24" 2008
You'll notice the range of content, styles and technique. The two non-objective paintings, 33 and 34, are an integral part of a larger group of non-objective paintings. Besides representational work, I love doing abstract and non-objective art. I don't plan on including much of that here and instead may do a separate blog to discuss that work.
The other works, as I mentioned, are trials at styles or techniques that I've been thinking about. Sometimes I decide once is enough. This may be the case with the techniques involved in the two landscapes, which became fairly tedious for me.
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