"The Old Gas Pump Gang"

I hope this is the last attempt on my part to capture this old gang of gas pumps. Two earlier posts were both watercolor sketches about 4 x 6 in my sketchbook.

This is acrylics on a 9x 12 piece of canvas panel. It was fun to do, and it took a long time; but I'm not real happy with it because, it, like so many of my other pieces, is overworked.

Someone recently told me a college professor told her that a painting is usually done about an hour before the artist think s/he has reached completion.

Such is the case with this one.

"Sketchbook with Coffee on the Edge"

A friend suggested coffee mugs, so I've been messin' about with them for a while.

Of the approximately 7 or 8 I've done, 2 or 3 sold back when I had an active eBay Store, and since maybe only one of them do I find interesting.

That one is this one. I like the "graphic" look, totally accidental as it is was/is.

The black area began as a wall with a window and from that window flowed the light that created the shadow this side of the mug. When I blackened it in, because I didn't like the "look" of it, I pulled the black paint right over the edge of the table as I focused in on the shadow line; so there's the "big oops" with this one.

But I still like it so off it goes to the blog.

5x7 canvas panel, acrylics