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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Acrylic Texas View

A new painting from yesterday. 


This is "sort of" the view from our porch.  I took considerable artists license.  It is about 15 x 15 inches.  Heavy metal with gesso and acrylic paint.  We will varnish it when we get it all together.

We had a street sign painted at the other house combining a Texas plaque, stop sign and a Longhorn part that David made.  All metal.  It was pretty faded from the weather and then was pretty burned in the fire.

When you drive up to our new house you drive into the back.  The front sort of faces the lake.  We decided to revamp the old sign to say "Welcome" and point to the walkway to the front door.  I have been slow on the job but finally worked on the Texas part yesterday.

The Texas was fun to paint and got me warmed up in acrylics to do a replacement painting for some friends that lost their home and a couple of my paintings in the fire.  I will work on that today.  It will be the view from our porch.  The one they had was the view from my old kitchen window in oil.  Both have pine trees.  I hope it will be just the piece for their new apartment.

5 comments:

Bag Blog said...

I love the Texas acrylic. Did you have someone cut out the Texas shape?

Jo Castillo said...

Hi Bag Blog, the Texas shape was on the playhouse building in our old house. The company must have put them on. It is heavier metal than the stop sign. About double thickness.

Jo Castillo said...

Thank you, Joanna.

Regina Calton Burchett said...

I hope you'll sell these - this looks so good!! I really liked it when I saw it at your house.

Jo Castillo said...

Regina, thank you. Need a source for the metal form. Ha.


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I Grew up in a small town , Magdalena, New Mexico. I enjoy art and the pleasure other people get from my work. I always donate some of my sales and art to charities, especially for children. That started in Bolivia with Para los Niños. "I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns." -- Winston Churchill

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