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December 18, 2010
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18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Just painted what came to mind. The problem with improvising is that everything tends to fall into familiar patterns, as does this one.

Update: Having just gone on a rant in my previous posting about how there are elements I don't bother about in my paintings, here I go and start tinkering with little things in this one. The painting above is updated to include these tinkerings: things like the down hill slope of theroof line of the house and the distant patch of road was too narrow...picky little things that bugged me. (If you care to see how minor these changes are, you can see the unaltered painting on my blog.) Sometimes big things don't bother me and little things do...
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Mood: Joy ~Narked Dec 20, 2010
Tilting of the image gives the impression you drew this while riding on something, Its a nice touch!
Good stuff all around Chuck!
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~litka Dec 20, 2010
Since the road's not plowed, you're probably heading for the ditch.
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Mood: Dazed ~Narked Dec 20, 2010
Ouchie!! Gettin' to close to the subject matter!
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!shikashida Dec 18, 2010
Love it.
Reminds me of my hometown in the middle of farm country, Cenral New York...
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~litka Dec 19, 2010
Thanks. Actually I have several paintings in the gallery that were inspired by upstate New York, or rather pictures in a National Geographic from the 30's and the original Tom Swift books, The Road to Shopton, Picnic at Nester Point, and the Lake Carlopa piece.
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!shikashida Dec 20, 2010
I've never had the pleasure of reading any Tom Swift adventures... That really must change.

Nat Geo has some fantastic photography. I'm always utterly amazed.
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~litka Dec 21, 2010
The original Tom Swift books are still available via Gutenberg. They're set in upstate New York, a two day motorcycle ride from Albany in 1910. (I take 'Lake Carlopa' as a fictional finger lake.) In my youth I was a fan of the Tom Swift Jr books and discovered the existence of the original Tom Swift series by a brief'60's craze called "Tom Swifties".
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!shikashida Dec 30, 2010
Thanks for the info. ;) I really have to check these out...I'm still dumbfounded I haven't heard of them prior to your work.

(And I totally live in NY...born and raised...and will breed, no doubt. el oh el.)
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