| Jump ahead nine months here with me. Today is 3/9/10. On Day 9 of the painting I had no idea that - that would be the last day of the rainy season for what was to be nine months. Well it's coming back! The rainy season is here again!.. I hate it because it's colder. I feel safe that when I wake up early and it's raining the road and the flag at the store will at least be wet. It takes me an hour to get out there. I tried one day when it rained here but still there was no rain there. In the meantime I did these five pastel painting and went to "live model" sessions twice a week.
The PAINT WARS have been going on since lard was the medium of choice and replaced with grain paste, than sap. Today there is a new-kid in the pastel industry. I'm all for the new chemical pigments being used in a classic medium like pastels. This new company has given me a true dark magenta, dark cyan and a color known in all other paint media as translucent dual-toned Indian Yellow. Now this same pigment is put on chalk by Art-Alternatives.com. This gives an opaque light orange which in small quantities is yellow. A dual-toned pastel! That's a PAINT WAR entry to search for in my site, there is a search box at the top of this page. Now, chemical colors added to pastels giving colors never before possible. 6-28-9
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| First and second day, drawing with charcoal, 7-1-9.
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Third day, converted the charcoal drawing to a light blue outline. Clean it up at and at night added full coat of jar white to make the paint slide. Start adding color.
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| Day 3, 7-3-9, six hours adding color
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Shirly Dumo of Kanaio is painting also using water soluble oil.
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| Day 4,
It has been very tricky for me to get the details of the building, there are so many trees in the way.
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Day6, 7-11-9
I got some rain today and painted in the road. Added the sky reflection on the wet roof. Started the trees with 2 coats of white. where some of the highlights are. Then the first coat of color. Finished the grill stack
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| Day 7.
Someone had parked in my space today so I painted 8' to the left. Yea it was bad.. but my drawing is finished so it wasn't a total loss and I did get some rain about 4:00 this afternoon. The trees were the object for today, I would really like to keep the pure blue next to the roof because I do like to have a set of pure complements, yellow and blue would be nice. Look at what a wash of yellow ocher did for the road.  |
Day 8, 7-13-9
Christy is helping me proof read my web site so I an taking a few days off. I'm also repainting my van with One Shot paint, it has lead in the colors so the color will last longer. The painting still isn't 100% covered with paint, that's when I feel I half way finished. Ok, I drove out there, 30 minutes and painted this morning. There was no rain like I had hoped for but it was cloudy so I got 3 hours of painting in. I worked on the background and foreground trees. I'm just about half-way finished.  |
| Day 9 on 1-6-11
3 hours working on the trees. The sky is clearing, I'm going home. It's been a year since it rained, the next rain should be coming soon. I still have the fence, flag and building walls to finish. 10-27-10, it's raining this week. That was a bust. 12-22-10, We still haven't got rain two days in a row and I still have not finished the painting. 1-6-11, It rained and I high-tailed it to Ulapalakua, the rain was just ending but I did get the fence in before the sun came out. The flag laid still so I'm not sure how the stripes bend around. I think I can finish at home, I have a flag and I can fill in the white correction spot in the trees.  |
| Day 10 on 5-22-11
5-22-11, Happy Memorial Day to you, it's a long weekend and I'm finishing Ulapalakua Store today. Starting with the correction white in the middle ground trees and the flag. Between the picket fence posts I added the correct color. The white correction color on the buildings windows needed a glaze, the chair needed color after the flag was painted in. That's it, I'm finished, sign it, #977. I've been seeing this painting everyday for almost 2 years, waiting for day I could finish it. Now I can get back to the still life that has been sitting here for 5 months. Dried protea don't change much after they dry. Ha, it's 3-9-12 and the painting still hasn't been worked on yet, but the setup is still in place and I see it every day. It's been 8 months now, protea are good as dried flowers, they never change. "5 Proteas"  |
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