Ted Green Watercolors

 

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Art Show

I decided I wanted to show my paintings so I chose a very high falutin’ venue: the Saco River Farmer’s Market. I put up almost 60 paintings and some friends and strangers took a look at my stuff.

I even sold 2 small paintings. To my market booth neighbors. It was fun but a lot of work, possibly because I over complicate things.

Here is a picture of my booth set up at home in preparation:

Painting sale/show

This Saturday I’m going to put 60 of my paintings on display, most of them for sale.

I’ve cramped up my hand cutting mats the past 2 weeks.

I’m excited just to create a showing of my work. God only knows if any of them will sell.

Next up – maybe a crowd pleaser

I was looking at photos of sailboats out in google land and I saw several with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. Seems like a crowd pleaser to me.

I doctored up an image in Gimp. (free gnu software like photoshop):

Then I made a sketch:

 

Duomo from the Pitti Palace not good

Well, I finished the next duomo painting but I don’t like it. The green stuff is really crummy. I will have to return to it but not now. Got to get my spirits up.

duomo 3 study

Next I’m going to do this view of the Duomo in Florence from the Pitti Palace.

Here’s a study for it:

I didn’t like the shy spiky plant hiding behind the drain spout so I went googling for a suitable replacement and found this:

Best Friend Portrait finished

more bf portrait

I started on a complete version in class today:

a portrait of my best friend

I took out a study I started way back of a portrait of Hilary:

I decided to finish it.

Now I’ll do a final from this photo:

 

Duomo Down

Here’s my second picture for the Duomo series (Santa Maria Del Fiore, Florence)

Photo taken from over the railing and down from the cupola.

Picking the next subject

I ‘m choosing my next subject and I thought about this painting I did in the Fall.

The duomo cupola  at Santa Maria del Fiore

I took a lot of photos of the Duomo in Florence from different locations and distances. I’ve  been imagining doing a set of paintings from those photos.

Here are some: