Roll of canvas came in today.

Making canvas. Making canvas. La-la-la.

My latest painting from my “Captive Audience” series is one of my favorites.

Coffee Break, diptych →

Check out my newest painting(s).

Killer, 24x30” $400 — click image for more info at wessforeman.com

Congregation of Egrets

“Congregation of Egrets,” acrylic painting by me (and available for purchase)

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duck!

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The design of this painting came fully formed out of my head — it doesn’t usually happen that way but sometimes it does. I’m pretty sure it comes from an image I’ve seen before. Maybe a painting, maybe an illustration, maybe an ancient Chinese watercolor scroll — I don’t know.

I placed all the major elements on the canvas in paint, then refined the tree limbs, then found a few sparrow reference photos to refine the birds. I kept the neutral color palette but just had to add my signature spots or squares to the plain background (hey, it works).

I think the bird on top is the winner. Is that how that works?

Sparrows, 28x11” $200

Five Trees painting

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Five Trees, 18x24” $300

This is a smaller version of my “Seven Trees” painting, which received a lot of positive remarks at various art shows. I had a feeling that a smaller version would work as well and have the added benefit of a lower price tag. I’m sure this won’t be the last of this new series — in fact, I think this image is ripe for postcards or prints. It’s simple but compelling.

Mason

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After an off-handed comment the other day from the wife — something about me not painting any new paintings for our own walls for quite some time — I set about painting her an early Valentine’s present. This, a painting of our son Mason, was meant to be a quick paint-sketch, but I kept going with it — perhaps too far, perhaps not. It still has some of the “freshness” I wanted from the beginning though it lost some of the delicate brushstrokes in the face. The mouth, teeth, and jaw are probably a bit off as well, but I’m done with it and happy with it. Hard to look at it without tilting my own head to the right.

The reference photo was of Mason and “his” dog Molly … his arm half-strangling her and Molly squinting and waiting patiently for release from the uncomfortable hold. It was cute, but I wanted a painting with Mason’s head filling most of it, so I dropped the Molly part — maybe in another painting — and replaced her with a pillow of sorts [to explain the head tilt, I suppose]. The painting took around three hours, give or take — hard to keep up with time when creating. Finished three other paintings yesterday — I’ll post those later. That is all.