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Lenten painting is done!

3/27/2011

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Finally the painting for Lent is done! The wash of purple was still wet today as I hung it up in the Falcon Heights UCC lobby.

Yesterday, I showed it to my 7 year-old son, Matthew. I was playing some jazz on the radio (Randy Newman's "Marie") and turned it off, when Matthew said, "It looks better with the music on."

(The 3x4ft painting is acrylic with silver metallic highlights on the wire, and golden metallic highlights on the wheat kernels. The clouds use white and iridescent media. I put a wash of 1 purple to 4 parts glazing medium on all areas but the cloud surrounding the wheat.)
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Lenten painting: Almost done...

3/21/2011

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Work in progress: Painted int the foreground barbed wire fence and have begun highlighting the wire with silver iridescent paint. Next I'll put in the stalk of wheat and then put down a wash of purple glaze. I'm about 4 hours of work away from the finish.
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3/12/2011

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I'm working on the Lenten painting by first putting in an opposite color underpainting to make the purple of the overpainting more vibrant.  This is on a 3ft x 4ft canvas with acrylic.
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Created a rough draft of Lenten using Photoshop

3/6/2011

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I've created a rough draft of the Lenten painting using Photoshop so I can move the elements around more easily. The crown of thorns are represented by barbed wire. The wheat is represented by a lone wheat stalk. The color purple is in the color of the sky. Preparation, the most difficult to represent pictorially, is represented by a winter field and a sunrise.
Now I'll start painting soon and, inevitably, the act of painting will reveal surprises, and possibly take the painting down unforeseen avenues.

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    For all of my life I've been trying to bring together my artistic "right brain"  and my professional software engineer's "left brain". Finally, a half-century on, I think I am the threshold of being able to do just that. My life now reminds me of that Bob Dylan lyric: "I was so much older then, I'm younger then that now!"

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