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Monday, January 30, 2017

The Bird Challenge


This is another of the Daily Paintworks challenges:  link here
I thought this "kingfisher from pixabay" might work well on the small ACEO format.

ACEO n°9: "DPW Bird" 
6.4x8.9cm, oil on canvas panel

(Private collection, Brussels) 

Virtual Paintout - Puerto Rico - January 2017










   

Another tiny 2.5 x 3.5 inch painting. This is a street in Ponce, Puerto Rico, as pictured here:
Google Street View Link  

My other sketches of Puerto Rico are on Flickr:  Plaza Colón and ¿Dónde estás?


ACEO n°8: "La Casa Amarilla" 
6.4x8.9cm, oil on canvas panel
(this painting is lost)



Sunday, January 22, 2017

Happy New Year!

Some tiny ACEOs to start the year.  

These small canvas panels are difficult to find in Brussels so I ordered them at www.SharksArtCanvas.com.  I have been calling them ATCs ("Artist Trading Cards") but it looks like that is used only for a specific exchange project. So the generic term must be ACEO ("Art Cards, Editions and Originals").

First, I finally got around to doing the Daily Paintworks painting challenge from 2011.  Take a look at the site to see all the cats:  
The whole cat and kaboodle challenge 


ACEO n°6: "DPW Cat" 
6.4x8.9cm, oil on canvas panel
(private collection, Brussels)


After that I tried Evhe's "défi de peinture", which I just discovered last week. I am amazed that by checking the VPO blog in Kentucky, I linked to a blog in Malaga and that's where I found a link to this painting challenge hosted by a painter in Moselle:
A nos pinceaux


ACEO n°7: "Tulips" 
8.9x6.4cm, oil on canvas panel 
(private collection, Brussels)