Giant Blue Heron
8x10 acrylic on stretched Bavarian linen
Buy it at: https://www.dailypaintworks.com/Artists/gregory-cross-8940

I decided to paint another bird since my stork painting turned out so nice, so here is Giant Blue Heron. Another fairly nice outcome. I do like to paint on these linen canvases. I am going to try to get some linen panels since panels are so much easier to deal with and see if I like them.

As for the craft sale last Tuesday, it was a complete bust. A lot of people did look at my paintings but no one bought one. Still, it was nice to be appreciated.

Pear on a Plate
10x8 acrylic on canvas panel

Figure I'd switch to another still life. Here I am using my new "shadow box" again. Placed a pear on a plate and set up the scene. The end result was quite satisfying. So was the pear, which I ate when the painting was finished.

Rainy Morning
11x14 acrylic on canvas panel.

Yes, another tree. The craft sale is Tuesday and I had a few of these canvas panels left, so I decided I would do a landscape. And, in keeping with my last few paintings, I had to add some interesting sky feature. Why not a nice storm cloud? I debated about putting in the fence posts. I originally thought about making it an open field, but put the fence in anyway.

Study of a Planed Pear
12x9 acrylic on canvas pad

I spend a lot of time doing studies and practice paintings. I call them my doodles. This one was a value study using a pear with the peal cut off so that the surface is a bunch of flat planes. Then I used my new shadow box (actually a corner with material draped against the wall and a lamp) to set up the still life. But, as this was just a study, I painted very loose and quickly, just trying to get the basic values in grey scale on the canvas paper. I kind of got in the groove (to use a saying from yesteryear) and my doodle became interesting. So, I applied a little bit more effort, added some finishing touches, and ended up with "Study of a Planed Pear". I liked the result, so I signed it and decided to post it for you.

Stork in Flight
8x10 acrylic on Fredrix pro series Bavarian linen canvas
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I've been wanting to paint a large bird in flight for quite some time so I decided to try a stork. And I decided to do it on a linen canvas, so it will not be one of the paintings I am going to take to the craft sale next Tuesday. This one is going on my DPW gallery, for starters. I do have a few of the canvas panels left and I still have a week to crank out a couple more for the sale. We'll see. Anyway, the bird turned out pretty good.

Silence Before Dawn
11x14 acrylic on canvas panel

I rented a table at an upcoming craft show to see if I can sell some of my growing stock of paintings and maybe get some cash for some new supplies. I started painting today to maybe add a few more for people to choose from. I didn't really start out to make this like a dark dawn sky before the sunrise, but the painting took on a life of its own. The final painting has absolutely nothing to do with the reference I was using to start with. About the only similarities are that it has a sky, some land, and water. It did end up an interesting painting, though.

Mountain #3
8x10 acrylic on Fredrix Pro series stretched Bavarian linen canvas
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Hopefully these interruptions to my painting time will eventually stop. I've spent enough time this week dealing with government bureaucracies and tires with nails in them.  I did get some painting done. Among some practice work learning different brush strokes for different applications I managed to paint this lovely mountain. Mountain #3 turned out quite nice even if I was painting it in bits and snatches around all the brew haha this week.