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Published: 2015-01-24 18:19:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 561; Favourites: 36; Downloads: 19
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18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboardThe painting of the week, or any port in a storm, since it was the only painting of the week. All it needs is a large hound with glowing eyes and jaws. It does, I think, convey an impression. Whether or not you'd want that impression is another matter. I'll have to put it into a frame to see if I'll keep it or just paint over it.
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If I were a book publisher, I would ask that this be an illustration for the Sherlock Holmes classic, Hound of the Baskervilles".
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That's what I thought it looked like, when it was done.
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Night time landscapes are always so brave/daunting because of how much more you have to adapt something from real life onto canvas, and you really rose to the occasion. Great painting!!
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I go with dark green for the night sky. Completely unrealistic, but seems, for me, to create the mood, the moon-lit scene I'm usually going for -- not that I dare do them very often. Thanks!
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Ahh, I never would have thought to use green!
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Don't you DARE paint over this Chuck! Sometimes a body needs a change and this is much different than your usual fare, LOL! You can place this on a Vampire novel or Werewolf story! And yes A. Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskevilles story is my all-time fave Sherlock Holmes story! The run-and -gun pursuit of the hound before it caught up to Sir Henry made the cost of the hardback worthwhile!!
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Looks like I'm spending the day answering comments. I'll keep it, just for you, Mac. I have it up now on the wall, and it looks moody enough. And well, hardboard was cheap the last time I bought it, so I can afford a new board for the next one. I was thinking this would be a night snow scene, but that looked too wimpy. The moors at midnight it was meant to be.
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Its good stuff Chuck! and yes i've no complaints about some nightime snow scene since such things are scares down here, I have only my memories of my Army years in the 80's, when it snowed around Virginia and Washington D.C.,
when there was a full moon at night and snow upon the ground and the woods around Ft. Belvoir seemed quiet,
I shall carry such images to the end of my days.
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Snow at night can be magical. I usually only enjoy it however, when I have to shovel it early in the morning, or late at night. Still, when I'm done, and warm from the work, I'll linger outside for a while just to enjoy it.
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Ah, I only have the memories of those nights in Virginia in the late 80's, It'll do!
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Thanks, that's all there is to it.
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Oh ...Find a frame....It has so much atmosphere....Love it!!A Wuthering Heights night!!
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It looks moody enough in a frame. I've two from my watercolor days, mat & glass, that I can swap these paintings in in under a minute. The backing holds them in place, so most of my work get's it day over the fireplace or sofa.
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Why not enjoy them!!!!!!
I wish the ones l liked of mine were inmy home
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One of the reasons I don't sell my work anymore is because I don't want to miss them. There is one little piece I still really miss years later. The other reason is that people seemed to like the pieces that I didn't think were my best, so why have less then the best out and about?
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I know what you mean!!!.....Why not indeed!!!
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