SmileySteve's Blog

Earlier this week I posted my first TwitPic of a piece of art, a rain gauge that I took the pleasure of painting the other night. I’m lucky to enjoy meticulous painting and taking time to add life and personality to something.

The Rain Gauge Bird and Flowers that I Painted

I picked up an acrylics set late last Winter 2008, and painted a few painting, incidentally following in my grandfather’s foot steps, so now there are two S.Reid artists.

One step in this painting that I was most proud of was that I mixed brown (I don’t have a brown paint) to the color I wanted it to be on the first try. This requires a custom mixture of Red, Green, and Black… and I used a little bit more black in some locations so that the stump was darker than the branches.

I’m probably least proud of the colors of the bird, because I didn’t really settle in on a solid decision. As you can see in this picture, he is a light blue jay with some red tinted feathers and a few speckles. But under his wings are more yellow and green colors.

I hope that you enjoyed taking a look at some of my art because I like bragging about it. Just imagine, a week ago, this was just a broken (there is actually a bird missing,) single color faded and dirty rain gauge holder that took some imagination to figure out what it actually was.

Here’s to making more art, in fact, I have a blank 16×20 canvas that’s next.