The Art of Colby Jones
This painting is stored away all year except when I hang it up for the Christmas season (Advent). I thought I might as well post it on the web so I used my point-and-shoot camera to try to capture the image. It didn’t work that well. The “white” areas are supposed to be, well, white, because it is just bare canvas. I wanted a very simple painting of an angel.
Acrylic on canvas, 24″ X 30″
The results are in for your favorite painting posted on this website. This has been a lot of fun. Thanks so much for everyone who participated.
FAVORITE PAINTING
Hike With GrandDad
Hike With GrandDad was the clear winner; 4 times as many votes as second place. And, like I did for your favorite cartoons and favorite drawings, I’ve combined the other favorites into ranges of votes received and listed them alphabetically in each tier.
Second Tier:
Boy Wonder, First Father First Son, First Grader, Young Steer
Third Tier:
Arno and Phillip, Blue Indian, Chuck Berry, Desert Sip, Desert Sip 2, Faces, First Trip To The Beach, Flamingos, Girl in Orange Shadows, Indian Mother and Child
Others Getting Votes:
Girl Swinging, Jim and Myrt, No Comment, Rinsing Hair – Red, Sandlot Softball, Vodka and Big Red
Big comfy chair. Favorite books to read. Stuffed critter by your side. It’s a good day.
Acrylic on canvas, 20″ X 20″
This is an old painting. Back then, when practicing and experimenting, I would select photos from magazines and try to recreate them in my style.
Acrylic on canvas, 24″ X 36″
I’ve been playing around with watercolor pencils again. I picked on rock-n-roll icon Chuck Berry this time. I decided to overlap a facial portrait with his signature “duck walk.”
Watercolor pencil on watercolor paper, 9″ X 8.5″
This is the kind of stuff you come up with when you’re just playing around with paint and canvas. No plan, no preparation. Just go for it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Either way, the trip is fun.
Acrylic on canvas board, 12″ X 24″
Big empty wall in the bedroom. Begging for some art work. Had to come up with something. Created this painting and called it, “It Matches The Bedspread.” No, there are no flamingos on the bedspread. It just picks up the colors. Well, it used to. The painting has since been replaced by “Jim and Myrt” (posted June, 2008).
Acrylic on canvas, 40″ X 30″
I painted this a long time ago. When I just happened across a digital file of it I thought, what the heck, I’ll post it. It’s characteristic of my paintings at that time: quickly done with larger brushes and simple brushstrokes.
Acrylic on canvas, 24″ X 36″
I did this painting some time ago. It is in a private collection.
The tug of war between press and politico is never ending. One wants to gather and provide meaningful information and to elude evasive or misleading responses. One wants to avoid being trapped into giving harmful and incomplete soundbites and to express a point of view without it being distorted. An optimist appreciates the checks and balances as a beneficial system. A cynic begins to despise both sides.
Acrylic on canvas, 24″ X 36″
