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Showing posts with label canvas painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label canvas painting. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Painting Auction for Missions
This painting is up for bids:
This 16"x20" acrylic painting on canvas of Coconut Beach in Brazil is being auctioned off for missions. I am the director of our church's VBS and every year the girls and boys have a contest to raise money for missions. This year their offering will be given for building a church that our church helped plant in Coqueiro, Brazil. My husband, my pastor and his wife, and many of our friends have been on mission trips to the area. To place a bid for the painting, leave a comment of your bid amount beneath the photo on my facebook page (click here). Highest bid placed by midnight Saturday night, June 11, 2011, wins the painting. 100% of the proceeds from the painting will be sent to Brazil for building the church. VBS begins Monday, June 13. Of course the proceeds of this auction will be added to the GIRLS contributions! This painting based on a photo taken in Brazil by my husband while he was on his last mission trip to the area in 2009.
This 16"x20" acrylic painting on canvas of Coconut Beach in Brazil is being auctioned off for missions. I am the director of our church's VBS and every year the girls and boys have a contest to raise money for missions. This year their offering will be given for building a church that our church helped plant in Coqueiro, Brazil. My husband, my pastor and his wife, and many of our friends have been on mission trips to the area. To place a bid for the painting, leave a comment of your bid amount beneath the photo on my facebook page (click here). Highest bid placed by midnight Saturday night, June 11, 2011, wins the painting. 100% of the proceeds from the painting will be sent to Brazil for building the church. VBS begins Monday, June 13. Of course the proceeds of this auction will be added to the GIRLS contributions! This painting based on a photo taken in Brazil by my husband while he was on his last mission trip to the area in 2009.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Cozumel Completed!
Monday, January 31, 2011
A Little Closer to Cozumel
The impending winter weather in the forcast has me thinking of summer, sand, beaches and flip flops! I've made a little more progress on the Cozumel painting, which I started here.
I should be able to finish it up soon....barring anymore delays! I've already completely repainted the sky because I attempted to paint the boat and I didn't like it so in painting over it the canvas got a whole new sky. Thankfully I like this sky even better now!
Check back soon as I'm sure it won't be long and I'll be calling this one finished!
I should be able to finish it up soon....barring anymore delays! I've already completely repainted the sky because I attempted to paint the boat and I didn't like it so in painting over it the canvas got a whole new sky. Thankfully I like this sky even better now!
Check back soon as I'm sure it won't be long and I'll be calling this one finished!
Saturday, January 29, 2011
On the Way to Cozumel
This is the first time I've blogged an incomplete painting. There is much on my mind, making sleep far away. Rather than toss and turn and wake my sleeping husband I made coffee and contemplated what to paint. Yes, I made coffee at 2 am. I'm funny that way.
I have some unfinished commissioned projects I should be working on....but I need to buy some paint stripper to tackle one of the window frames before I can begin one...and the other can't be started until the first coat of gesso dries and perhaps another coat added.
I went through my file of photos I've saved for potential painting projects to see what, if anything, might jump out at me and say "paint me!!!" I kept coming back to one photo I'd received permission to paint months ago. I grabbed a small canvas and got to work.
I decided to blog as I go and let you see it as it progresses, and as I work on it between other projects. I'm hopeful the promise of a good beginning will result in a happy ending as well:
I have some unfinished commissioned projects I should be working on....but I need to buy some paint stripper to tackle one of the window frames before I can begin one...and the other can't be started until the first coat of gesso dries and perhaps another coat added.
I went through my file of photos I've saved for potential painting projects to see what, if anything, might jump out at me and say "paint me!!!" I kept coming back to one photo I'd received permission to paint months ago. I grabbed a small canvas and got to work.
I decided to blog as I go and let you see it as it progresses, and as I work on it between other projects. I'm hopeful the promise of a good beginning will result in a happy ending as well:
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Belize Canvas
Last summer friends went to Belize on vacation. Upon their return they shared photos of their trip. One of their photos inspired a painting that I have painted a few times.
Here's the progress of one of those paintings, on canvas, that was commissioned by the friends who took the photo I used.
I think I could certainly enjoy a view like this every day of vacation!!!
Here's the progress of one of those paintings, on canvas, that was commissioned by the friends who took the photo I used.
I think I could certainly enjoy a view like this every day of vacation!!!
Friday, January 14, 2011
Grandpa and Joey
"Grandpa, Can You Fix It?" is a 20"x24" canvas painting my aunt commissioned for a Christmas gift for my cousin Jennifer.
Joey, who is now a junior in high school, was just a little tyke when the photo this painting is based on was snapped. Grandpa has been gone since November 2008. I grew up living close enough to my grandparents that walking back and forth to their house was a very common thing, even multiple times a day. The photo this was based on just depicts how we all remember Grandpa: stopping in his tracks to fix whatever was broken.
There were a few times I wasn't sure I could finish the painting. Tears would be streaming down my face and I'd have to stop. At one point I told my husband, this is crazy. He said, no, not crazy, it just makes you remember your Grandpa vividly.
So Grandpa, this one's in memory of you, in honor of all your grandchildren who love and miss you so much.
Joey, who is now a junior in high school, was just a little tyke when the photo this painting is based on was snapped. Grandpa has been gone since November 2008. I grew up living close enough to my grandparents that walking back and forth to their house was a very common thing, even multiple times a day. The photo this was based on just depicts how we all remember Grandpa: stopping in his tracks to fix whatever was broken.
There were a few times I wasn't sure I could finish the painting. Tears would be streaming down my face and I'd have to stop. At one point I told my husband, this is crazy. He said, no, not crazy, it just makes you remember your Grandpa vividly.
So Grandpa, this one's in memory of you, in honor of all your grandchildren who love and miss you so much.
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