Latest Oil Pastel

I had to do a posting of my FB111 on it's mach 2 run. After a few supersonic runs one of the birds came back missing its veritical stabilizer we quit making the supersonic runs.

Our mission was to penetrate at low level so the supersonic runs were unnecessary.

This is a 16 by 20, oil pastel on archival canvas board.

My Review of Turner Acryl Gouache Sets

Originally submitted at Jerry's Artarama Art Supplies

World's Finest, Fast-Drying, Brilliant Matte Acrylics! These colors are the world's finest for illustrative techniques with acrylics. It is incredibly versatile, adhering to wood, acrylic boards, stone, cloth, clay, metal, slate, glass, aluminum, iron, hard vinyl, styrofoams, artist canva...

Turner Acryl Gouache Sets

Delighted

By Hal from Coastal New Hampshire on 1/31/2011

4out of 5

Pros: Wonderfully opaque

Cons: Execellent value

Best Uses: Fine art, Art

Describe Yourself: Artist

Primary use: Business

Was this a gift?: No

I create my paintings for the art fair circuit and gouache is a new medium for me. I am delighted with the results I have been achieving with this brand of gouache. I always work with a limited palette. John Stobart is my hero and for me 5 or 6 colors is a full palette. One of my mentors said that if you don't mix your own colors you're not a painter. This set has all the colors I'll ever need. I highly recommend this product for other artists.

Mount Redoubt, Alaska; Gouache 8 by 10 inches

Tags: Gouache mount redoubt, Made with Product

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In the Style of Eric Tiemens

I enjoy paintings with dramatic value shifts and I was recently introduced to the work of Eric Tiemens. I did this painting trying to emulate the style of some of Eric's gouache paintings.

This is a gouache, 6 by 9 inches on 140 pound watercolor paper.

A link to Eric's site: http://www.virtualgouacheland.blogspot.com/

I have 32 paintings in the Mark Wentworth Home, on Pleasant Street, in Portsmouth, NH with an artists's reception this Sunday, 23 January, from 2 to 4. Since the Patriots are out of the playoffs, I'll attend. Come on down and say HI.

For the Love of Dogs

My goodness it has been a long time since I last posted here. I hope everyone had a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. In taking down my wall calendar for last year "For the love of Golden Retrievers, I noticed two tributes that are so true and should heap shame on anyone who mistreats a dog or any other pet or any other animal .

By an unknown author: "He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."

By Lord Byron: "Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise would be unmeaning if inscribed over human ashes, is but just tribute to the memory of Boatswain, a Dog.

December Art Fair

I will participate in the Sommersworth Arts and Crafts Fair, in Sommersworth, NH, Saturday, December the fourth.

I also now have a presence on Fine Art America.

http://harold-kirby.artistwebsites.com/index.html

Art Fair

I will participate in an arts and crafts fair at the Newfields Elementary School, Newfield, NH, next Saturday, November 20. I display about 20 original paintings and numerous giclee prints.

Come on down!!

Gus a portrait

I finally got around to doing a portrait of my beloved Gus. It's an oil pastel on archival canvas board.