Somewhere Between Finger Painting and Picasso

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
Pablo Picasso

I wanted to share a few of my canvas paintings. Painting is a favorite hobby of mine and I really want to get some professional instruction, but I think I've done alright on my own so far, at least good enough to display my canvases around our home.

Here are a few of my paintings in order from the most recent to oldest. I have other ones in boxes that I wanted to post, but I don't even want to mess with our storage room. This is my first time posting my paintings on the internet, so this is an exciting moment...for me at least!

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LA BAÑERA

Spanish for "bathtub." I completed it THIS morning. I needed a piece of artwork for our upstairs guest bathroom. The idea to paint an old claw-foot tub is not original seeing that I got it from those pieces of wall art that you always come across in stores like Home Goods or Hobby Lobby. Instead of the typical french bathroom vocabulary words that most of those prints have, I switched it to Spanish! ¡Claro que sí! There isn't really a meaning behind the weird flooring color combo. The idea popped into my head and I painted it. Yep, that's about it.

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"A STREETLIGHT NAMED DESIRE"

Ah yes, a European street lamp in front of a brick home with a painted blue door overgrown with ivy vines. Well, that was the vision at least. The door turned out to look more like the night sky instead, which still makes a neat painting.

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"Warm Colors bring Cool Weather"

I have a slight obsession with trees, leaves, and branches. Of course changing leaves are the most beautiful in a painting!

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"Hobbit House"

The idea was to paint an English cottage with a lush garden, but it turned out a little different and Brian and I both agreed it looked like a Hobbit home, so that is how this painting adopted its title. I painted this during my senior year of college.

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"Chardonnay in Merlot"

This is another painting from the good ol' college days. I'm still very proud of it. And for once, I had a painting turn out the way I had pictured it to look. I am pretty sure that this was my first attempt at creating a still life painting after several still life drawings.

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There you go! I'm glad I could share my little hobby with you. I'm up for criticism and comments too. Thanks for viewing! Ciao for now.