Indigo Blues, the 8x8 version of one of my larger pieces, it will be in my Daily Paint Works auction, check it out.
the inspiration for this painting was a dark, smokey blues club, well maybe it wasn't smokey because you can't smoke indoors anymore but you know what I mean.

Virtuoso

Virtuoso,
this is basically the method of my madness,
first sitting
sketch in pencil or paint,
fill in the colors like a coloring book
second sitting:
outline & details
when dry enough, varnish with dammar

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I also rub some color on the blank canvas to give the painting an inner fire.
I also just noticed my Virtuoso needs a bow, haha

The Small Stuff

My new series of small versions of some of my favorite paintings that I no longer have but want to revisit. Since being on DPW, I've started painting small which I really didn't do much of before but I do like it. It's easier once you get used to it, a lot of my paintings are very large. It almost takes longer to actually paint small, but everything else is easier and more convenient. Your supplies last longer,  it's easy to store, easy to transport to galleries. framing. I'm becoming addicted.
Here are a couple of recent paintings, I've used canvas board but after trying gesso board, that is my fave.

 

So, the Caliente 7 story has a happy ending, I forgot to mention that after the changes I made for
"J" it still wasn't good for her. At that point, I changed it back to my original and blackballed her, she can't have one of my paintings now.
Anyway, this nice guy, I'll call "W" ordered prints from FAA, one being "Caliente" the other this painting called "Cellist with Cats". They emailed me and said my pics were bad & they canceled the order. Then "W" emailed me to complain, so I said hey why don't you just buy the originals? I'll give you a good deal. His first original art purchase, he was very pleased as was I.
Happy Ending

this painting is called "Caliente 7", the seventh version of my original "Caliente" which was 33x54 oil on canvas. Anyway, I get a lot of interest in this painting and sometimes requests for it in a smaller  version. This one was requested by a person I shall just refer to as "J". She emailed me & gushed about how awesome I was, etc. I told her I could do the painting in acrylic 15x24 for $200 bucks.
She agreed, I did the painting and emailed her a pic, she said she loved it, but could I make the 2 people on the end look like her & her boyfriend, I did, emailed her a pic, she gushed how talented I was and could I give her another eye & bigger boobs, I did & emailed her a pic, she didn't like blue, could I change that, so I made the blues gray. Then she asked could all the guys have a moustache, I replied, it's finished, if you want it pay my paypal & I will ship it to you. Then she replies, could I make it more like the original because that one had more passion, needless to say I stopped communicating with her. Another day in the life of an online artist, haha

haven"t blogged lately, been busy, with my FUNctional Art Furniture series, this one is a trunk coffee table, I painted "Caliente" on it.  It was a painting of mine which people like, probably the composition is appealling or the name. Who knows. I put this on Ebay, it sold immediately, I would like that to happen a lot more often.