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3 TICKETS TO RIDE (AND SHE DON’T CARE)

Started out as a vision I had of a farm house at dusk in October with pumpkins on the porch and an old Ford truck in the drive. Fail! Then decided to do a pour painting over it using a sink strainer … since there’s apparently a great shortage of sink strainers, I put a bunch of holes in a plastic cup and gave it a whirl. Fail! Then I stared at the mess I created, stared more and then a little more. Carousel jumped out at me. Walla! So here it is … October Farm Pour Carousel!

LSD DONKEY

From a sheet with multiple layered pour painting experiments. Sat for a long time until Melissa commented she could see a Lamb face in it. Whipped out my handy brush and the rest is history! One could argue that this belongs in the Fire Pit, but I like it and it’s my gallery!

MONA WENT TO PIECES

Pour painting using oil that creates shapes where the paint doesn’t stick. Melissa’s inspiration was to paint a face behind the color where the paint didn’t stick. So I picked the Mona Lisa. The Louvre here we come!!!

BLACK EYED SUSAN

Just a random pour painting. Credit to Melissa for the concept. This is personally one of my favorites. It’s the the official painting of Maryland!

PIPE DREAM

I have no idea what to say about this.

DROWNING IN ANXIETY

Attempt to convert a pour painting into something artistic. Personally, I’m on the fence with whether I think I captured the feeling I intended with this versus whether it belongs some place in the Fire Pit. idk.

BIGIMUS MOUTHAGUS

500 million years ago, give or take, the Bigimus Mouthagus roamed most of the world’s oceans. Possibly related to modern day whales, despite their huge size and mouths, they fed exclusively on large quantities of very small plant life. Also significant was their incredibly small brain in proportion to their body size (evident by the “glazed look” in it’s eyes in the painting).

FLIGHT OF THE BATS

Another random pour painting that spoke to me. It said “I’m a bat”. So, I outlined him and added a few features and then added a tree, the moon and a graveyard.

CHIMNEY FIRE

From a pour painting that went south quickly. Each attempt to fix it just made a bigger mess. Finally quit while I wasn’t too far behind and stared at it. This is what I came up with.

AUTUMN MESS

Started out as one of those paintings where you swing a bucket above a canvas and it creates a cool geometrical pattern. Haven’t got the hang of that yet. After a number of attempts just kept adding Autumn colors to the bucket and letting it swing around in the wind that day (doing this in an open garage) and this is the result. Personally, I like it and think it looks better than it does here in the picture.

SPACE

I’ve seen space paintings and watched how-to’s using spray paint. I tried it myself with okay results. But, I wondered whether you could do it using acrylics rather than spray paint. I was pleasantly surprised that it came out as it did and is actually one of my favorite creations. I also think it looks better in real life rather than the picture of it used here.

EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL HALLOWEEN

Enjoyed doing the Space painting so much, decided to attempt another with a theme.

ALIEN JUNKYARD

I’ve kind of gotten hooked on doing “space paintings”. I wanted to do something different though. No idea where, but the idea came to me of a bunch of old cars on a planet. I had one issue along the way. I put a matte varnish on and for some reason it didn’t dry completely clear which degraded the painting some. Also, for this one, I couldn’t get a photo to put here that captures it properly – I think it looks better in person.

MISTLETOE MADNESS

With the latest trend being Artificial Intelligence (AI), I decided to utilize it to create a concept using my text input. I typed in a number of Christmas words and selected an art style and it came up with the master of what I used to create this. I introduced my own modifications while painting it and selected my own colors. This result may be my most ‘artistic’ piece I’ve created to date.