Amsterdam Street

Teri is a past neighbor of ours.  She now owns a home in Amsterdam, Netherlands.  She and I were talking about it and she showed me a poster which had her house in it.  I offered to paint it if she sent me the picture from the poster.  I like street scenes a lot, especially when they have light and perspective.  This did and I gave it to her to hang in Amsterdam.

 

Gil's House

One of my friends and neighbors is Gil.  He has numerous paintings of mine that he rotates based on the seasons.  Everyone of them also has a connection back to his past, such as the Avalon beach scene, shown before in this blog.  So, he wanted a Fall scene recently but wanted it showing a past hose in Bluebell, PA.  This how it ended up, even though I had never scene the home.

 

Blue Forest Path

I saw this image online and loved the composition and the light coming through the trees.  I love paths and anything that has to do with them - perspective, etc.  And, so I tried to do this one.  I love the way it turned out.

Avalon

 My neighbor Gil has a few of my paintings.  He always likes ones that remind him of past scenes. In this case, he was looking for something that reminded him of Summer.  

He had spent a lot of family time in Avalon, NJ in the past and remembered the Avalon lifeguard boats along the shore. Never having been there, I had to do some research.  And, I found some neat photos of the boats.  

This one was fun as it also had one of my favorite aspects, reflections.

"The Boys"

 

I don't paint in pastels very often.  Usually only if I go to a class.  So, that is where this one came from.  We had a class, in pastels, called "Paint a Pet".  So, I decided to do one of my son's dogs, at least two of the three.

Here is how it ended up.  They are buried in a fuzzy blanket on the couch.

Looks pretty comfy!!~

The Panther

Where we live, I have a good friend whose last name is Panther.  She has also asked me to paint a few pieces to hang outside her door during various seasons, Spring, Fall, etc.

We were talking one day and she said that she would like a "panther painting" to also hang outside her door.  So, in looking, I found this image and decided that it would work well.

So, it's now looking down the hall.  Have fun Mrs. Panther!

The Ferrari "Horse"

 

Now, this one has a story:  In our community, there is a man who loves cars.  And, now he has a really serious one, a Ferrari.  Recently, he came to me and asked if I could do a painting similar to one he had seen at a Ferrari dealership.  It was of the Ferrari emblam, but more abstract.  He wanted it to be large, too.

I first told him that the size that he wanted wasn't something that I could do because of my work space.  But, he later came back and said that his wife didn't want the larger one in their living room, anyhow.  So, he asked if I could do one in a smaller format - and I said yes. It is still pretty big at 22 X 28"

This si the result and both of us think that it came out handsomely. I researched the paint formula for "Ferrari Red" and used it for the background, and added little bit of paint to give it a surface.  I paticularly like the way that the face turned out.  He look pretty mean!!