Magic Winter Tree and still life with Puppies

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July 1st, 2010 Darren Daz Cox Posted in Art in progress, Carbondale, Darren Cox, Gold spray paint, Liquify Filter, My Art, My life, Photoshop, Revo Gruv, abstract art, acrylic painting, art techniques, clear acrylic medium, creative energy, cute, digital paint, figure, fine art, glitter, glitter paint, gold leaf, irredescent paint, legendary social status, love, medium canvas, painting, pose, puppies, puppy, snowflake, still life, tinted glue, writing on art | No Comments »

This morning I started a magic painting, oh what is so magical about an abstract tree you might ask? Well, consider that time is the forth dimention here and I will enjoy watching the painting evolve from winter white to glorious gold!

I started with a gold spray painted canvas then added four types of clear acrylic medium (goes on white and dries clear), india ink, a dozen different iridescent and glitter paints, gold leaf and gum arabic with lashes of white glue on top!

This painting will look different as each layer dries and cracks and reveals the gold underneath! magical!

Yesterday at my local Micheals store (arts and crafts chain) there was a girl who was just starting her art career, probably spending her Christmas money on art supplies which was very smart of her! She just happened to mention to the folks she was with that you couldn’t do a still life with cats because obviously the cats were alive and would move! But I had to interject and mention that Paul Gauguin had already broken that stereotype with his classic "Still life with Puppies" which as every art nerd knows, is the finest irony and the essence of art itself, as what is less still than a puppy? well, maybe when they are asleep, but even then they are quivering with happyness!

(..and it goes a little like this…)

Still life with three Puppies fine art oil painting by Paul Gauguin

Still Life with Three Puppies by Paul Gauguin

As an homage to Gauguin’s painting, one of my favorites it is indeed! here’s an oil painting I did in the early 1990′s in the art studio of Revo Gruv in Carbondale illinois when I was an art student at southern Illinois University. "Still life with Fast Food and Puppies" based on real life events!

still life with fast food and puppies by Darren Daz Cox