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20" x 15" Sanford
Pencil on art board with Prismacolor Fixative
This is a drawing I did of a foot bridge in a small park near the Spring Creek Campus of Collin County Community College. This was required by my drawing class head by Doctor Marilyn Daniels. The class drove there and spread out and drew things. I did many sketches that day and this is the one I like the most, to do a finished work on. I did the best I could with a pencil to show reflections and sunshine. The clouds were tough, but that was the way they looked that day; I told someone in my class.
The foliage and the tress shows my attempt to draw every leaf. This is the way I draw foliage and trees. It is something to see me draw this way. It is frantic and quick. I like to listen to rap, or hard rock music with a fast beat to do this.
I ask a black male fellow school mate, I kind of looked up to, if he saw my show in Allen and to my surprise he said he did. I asked him which piece of art he liked best and he said this was his favorite. I remember the expression on his face like it was real good.
This is a painting I did in watercolor on French water color paper. I did the painting in black and white water paint. This is against traditional watercolors that let the paper be the white. Many things I have been taught in college in my 8 or more painting classes (outside my required classes) I took to heart and practice like religion. This is one thing I have rarely done. I do not like seeing the paper or canvas or wood of any painting I have ever done. I have used this technique with my Elvis Presley painting and such but I mostly use white to enhance the painting and hide the back. Since my first painting I have always painted thick I used to try to gob paining on until it stuck out. Like the painting I had in Half Priced Books, in McKinney, Texas for two years or so.
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This painting is also a great example of that since it is so
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16" x 20" watercolor
The above painting Freedom dance:
I named the painting Freedom Dance because I have a infatuation with freedom although I never feel free since the past 17 years. I am going to do something I hardly ever do. I am going to tell you where I got reference to my paintings. The above painting is one of the greatest water colors I ever did. That was Cathy Cotter Smiths view also. She was my teacher for my College courses watercolor one and two. She said she never had a student do so much work for a class ever and she is one of the first teachers at the college here. I got the idea for this painting from a tiny photo in a Texas magazine. It was about 1 inch by 1 inch. It was one of those things when you look at a photo and you say I must paint this. It is some kind of spiritual connection made by painter and subject. The storm clouds in the back round almost touching the skyline is defiantly a Texas skyline. In fact this morning when I went outside with the dogs to go bathroom and the sky to the Texas skyline south west looked like this painting. I have no idea where the photo came from. When I paint something from a photo I always destroy the photo. I usually burn it in my fireplace. This to me is like a ceremonial thing. As always the photo you see here does not do this justice. The native American is donned in eagle feathers with a staff with a eagle claw on it. He is dancing. The near by Choctaw tribe did a eagle dance when a treaty was signed. The eagle dance is done by many tribes to imitate the surrounding wild life to honor it. The landscape was very difficult thing for me to do. I wanted to actually show the roundness of the earth. The most difficult thing about this painting was the feather like streams just below the shield. The shield has a red white and blue eagle on it, you can not see that really in this photo. The feathers look like real feathers and that is always a real challenge. The frame I got from the good will store that took a half hour to break down and rebuild it is a really cool gold metal and must weigh 5 pounds at least. As with many of my paintings I try to incorporate my face into the structure of the face I am painting.
The above painting Be True to Your School is a painting of the front main entrance to the Spring Creek campus of my alma mater. The title is from a Beach Boys Song. This painting got so many hits it had it’s own link on Google.
The above painting Sunshine Skylight School is a painting of the new wing
to the Spring Creek campus of my alma mater. The title is because of the strange
effect of the sun coming from the open windowed ceiling. This painting has a
acrylic twin that hanged the Humanities department of CCCCD.
The above painting County Building Too is a painting of the new Court House in McKinney, Texas. The title is because it is the second County building painting I did. I was very angry about the cost of the tax payers to make this building. Then they really built up the college too, but it was after I had my fill of college. I guess we are very proud of our court houses here. It is a very beautiful building, I must admit.
The above painting A County Building is a painting of the newer smaller court building in McKinney, Texas. I remember when this building was a small hospital. The title is because it is the first County building painting I did. It took me a while to take this photo and it was making security antsy. Many government offices are here including the probation department and traffic courts.
The above painting To The Beat is a painting that comes from my favorite
skateboard video Yeah Right . The title is because this frame of the video was
amazingly done to the beat of the hip hop music. This was a difficult painting
because of the lens that was used to film it. The lens has a rounded look.
The above painting Spiral Staircase Going Down is a painting that comes
from my favorite skateboard video Yeah Right . The title comes from one of my
favorite songs by Kings of Leon. This was a favorite of Cathy Cotter Smith also
she like the round direction of it. This is from the last seen of the movie. The
trick was unreal. The song the plays I want to live in Los Angelus is a favorite
song of mine in this video. This dude ollies onto the rail from the side walk
down to what looks like a subway entrance.
The above painting Who I looked Up To and Who I Look Up To is a painting that comes from my favorite skateboard video Yeah Right . The title is because I looked up professional skateboarders as a kid and still look up to them today. This is one of my favorite and last skateboard paintings I did. I have only done three sk8 painting because like every thing else I do; the lack of interest. This is one of the greatest step jumps I have ever seen in a video. I did see this Spanish dude jump steps in Spain that was unreal too though that is a different story. I painted the steps exactly to the video frame, that was not easy. I love the shadow and the tiny red wheels and those trees that just kept getting better at. I would have made a great designer painter for model buildings. |
