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Painting Junk Food
Last time it was donuts…This time it was Burger King. I think maybe hot dog will be next… Posted in Friar's Artwork
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A slice of grease.
This is the third installment of my watercolor junk-food still-lifes. A generic slice of pepperoni from a forgettable franchise: this wasn’t great pizza, but it was the only place within a 40-minute...
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Suitable for covering your floor with…
People often ask me how long it takes to do a painting. I’ll tell them: “Twenty years”. Mabye a few hours to actually do the painting. That’s the EASY part. The tricky part is the 2-3 decades of...
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Hit-and-Miss Painting
Here’s a storm I encountered in Wyoming 6 years ago. I tried to capture the sky in watercolors. My first attempt didn’t go so well…I tried to apply multiple layers. Alternating between wet...
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Monday Night Painting
Some people ask me : What’s the point of painting something? Why don’t you just take a photo? Good question. Here’s a photo. (Might have been taken by me or my girlfriend at the time, I don’t...
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Feeling Blue
Friar’s Blogging Tip #157: When in doubt, show a painting of some fruit. It’s almost guaranteed to generate at least one snarky comment. Filed under: Friar's Artwork
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Friar’s Art Stories
I’ve lost count of all the paintings I’ve done, but each one has a story behind it, And if I jog my memory, I can remember most of them. Here are a few. a “BuckWheat” This was a study I did in art...
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Monday Night Art Class: The North Bowl of Revelstoke
Having just come back from vacation, I’m still in ski mode, and decided to paint one of my favorite photos from my trip: Here’s what I ended up with tonight: The first thing I did was the sky. A wet...
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This is why I hate watercolors.
Just finished off a painting tonight of Neys Provincial Park (on the North Shore of Lake Superior). I spent a lot of careful time on this. I was feeling reasonably happy with this my work, until it...
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Monday Night Art Class: Mess O’ Leaves
I took a a close-up photo of my tree in my back yard this fall: a And I decided to paint it. a a a a Took a while, but I finally finished it. And that’s it. I’m done painting leaves. Until next year....
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