5 7/8 x 24 oil on hardboard panel
On some occasions the first pass of a painting comes very close to a completed piece. At least it appears that way in the image I post here on my blog. In the flesh, they do look more distinct. Stacked Blocks is a good example of this. The in progress image and the jpeg of the completed painting look very similar on the computer monitor, but the finished painting is, in actuality, much more developed. I've been working on the second Ketchup Bottle for the last few days and I'm facing that same situation with it. Any in progress post at this point would be very hard to discern from it's predecessor, so I'm holding off until it's complete to show the final pass. My next painting will be a very large and complex one and I think it will work better as an in progress piece. If it takes as long as I think it will, you may all be pretty sick of seeing it by the time it's done.
7 comments:
Very nice! Wonderfully rendered and I love the subject! There is something intrinsically beautiful about older things - especially ones that have lasted over time and they really do make wonderful subjects for paintings The way that you present them in your paintings is both interesting and real.
I wish I could have been the first to post, because I would have said the very thing that Jeremy did. Are these blocks from your childhood, or were they a great find at an antique store?
amazing paintings!!!
While blog-hopping this AM I found yours - and I'm liking your technique and especially the subject matter. Have 'toyed' with various subjects for some old billhead paper I acquired several months ago that included line items for tin toys, blocks and marbles. I just haven't stumbled on any in visiting antique shops that really fit the bill quite yet.
This one - Stacked Blocks - is really a keeper.
Great work Neil! My blog is at: http://bryandavidsnuffer.blogspot.com/
this is so beautiful! and I love the unusual super-vertical composition you went with... have you thought about just doing details for the in-progress shots on pieces like this? then it's a little bit of a teaser, since us readers don't get to see the whole composition, and it'd be a lot easier to see the development between passes.
Thanks everybody. Kellie I have done details on paintings in progress in the past, but I should do them more often. The next painting I think will offer many opportunities for detail images. Neil
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