Helping out a fellow artist today

Today I had a new friend come over and I helped him with a new website he wanted to build. Brett and I met a about two months ago at a Second Saturday Reception at Crestmont Gallery, where we both have our pieces on display. He was there with his partner, Michael. I knew instantly that I liked the pair of them. In talking Brett told me that he is an art teacher but a few years ago started doing pottery and was interested in doing some shows in the area. I told him that I have been doing shows for the past 7 years or so and I would help him out. Also that I could help him get a website started. He told me that him and Michael would take me out to dinner as payment for helping him.

He brought over pictures of his work on discs so we got started. Instead of using the program I use to build websites that he would have to learn how to use, I got online and looked at a site that I knew a few friends who knew nothing about building websites got theirs started with. We put in all of his info, picked a domain name and started building. I think it turned out pretty good for taking about two hours to do.
Brett Ceramics
Hopefully it's easy enough for him to update it himself in the future.

New sports sketches approved

So I did the new sport sketches for the night stand job a few days ago and got the thumbs up today. So I will start painting that later this week. Here are the sketches.

It's soccer, baseball and football. They will each be painted in a super hero look with a black outline. One on each drawer of the three drawer night stand.

It was a little confusing when I started talking with the client about what she wanted for her four year old boy. I thought I knew and started sketches and it just wasn't right.

I apparently hit the nail on the head with these sketches though. So I got the details on the colors and so the next step is the base color to be painted.

I will post photos in a week or so when it's done. Or maybe part way through, we'll see. Hope you like them too.

A new look to the blog. Like it? I dunno.

Ok, so I'm trying out a new look to my blog. It was about time. Problem is that my html is a little rusty so I'm relying on the template to do the designing and it's not working out exactly as planned but I will fix the little things later.
What do you think so far?

Sk8er Boy

I finished the painting Sk8er Boy today. I like it but not really sure if anyone will buy it. I mean I'll probably put a $70. price tag on it but don't know who will buy it for their child at $70. but you never know. I just wanted to paint it so I did. Sometimes I do that!

i do like how it came out though. So I might do another one in a series.

Started sketches for job that this painting was for but the client didn't like. Will post them tomorrow.

Ok, signing off now to go to bed. Had a long day!

Train painting is done

I had tons of pictures of Collingswood, the town we live in, and I just bought a bunch of 8" x 10" canvas boards so I think these will be my next series of paintings. Here's the first one:

I really liked how the sun "whited" out a huge part of the photo on the left side and tried to recreate that in the painting. For those who don't paint, this stuff is difficult to do.

I have a bunch of other photos that are looking down our main street, Haddon Ave. These will take a little more time I think but I'm sure they'll turn out pretty good.

I did get a little side-tracked with an idea I had to use paint, building it up in different spots on the canvas so I'm doing that and another kid-type painting that will probably be finished today. If I have enough motivation to do it. Ever since I gained these 10 extra pounds I've been unmotivated to do anything. Isn't that ironic?

I also have 2 jobs that I'm in the middle of. One is a painting on a night stand for a child. The couple wanted a sports/superhero look on the front drawers and I missed the mark on the first batch of sketches

So I need to do more sketches. Probably do that tomorrow. But this last one is the one I decided to use and paint it on a canvas as a kids painting. This is the one I'm going to try to finish today.

So that's about it for today. I have my psoriasis doc appoint at 6 tonight and then zumba at 7:15. Busy day today/tonight.