Sunday, March 29, 2009

Knock Off #2 30" x 40" (Cheryl's "Private Collection")


Well it happened again. Cheryl went to Target and found a painting she loved and I opened my big mouth. I said, I can do that. Of course her reply (again) was, get busy! So here you go. To get all philosophical about it I feel like this life will lead you in the direction you need to go if you make your decisions for the right reasons and pay close attention. The fact is, I have been wanting to do some more "loose" or kind of impressionist pieces. This painting that I copied showed me a lot of what goes into this abstract style and I got that lesson because I wanted to do something nice for my wife. She deserves nice stuff for putting up with me over the years. As a matter of fact if you dig on the whole Karma thing she should be Oprah rich for having to survive the way my mind works. This will definitely give me a leg up on my next piece. It's going to be an original in a style between what I normally do and this. If you like this painting it was originally done by Kate Birch. The one at Target is 18 x 24. She has numerous pieces available at http://www.katebirch.com/

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Magic for Monkey (Ref Col #4) 12" x 12" (Kerigan's Private Collection)




This past December we went to the "Magic Kingdom". Thanks to a lot of hard work by Cheryl it was truly magical. She spent many hours planning so that we would be able to really enjoy it. I think that you can tell by the smile on Kerrigan's face, we all had a great time.

As you might know I am sort of attracted to good reflections. So this image combines my beautiful daughter having a great time and two cool reflections (one in each lens) If you look closely you'll see Cheryl taking the picture in the left eye lens (your right).