Background Music - Original Oil Painting by George De Chiara

Background Music 7x5 inches Oil on Canvas Panel by George De Chiara  I've been busy this last week working on commission paintings that are needed for Christmas. This is one of them. I've been lucky with this commission because they were able to supply me with some items they wanted to include in the painting. In fact, almost everything in this still life is from them, the horse statue, the jewelry, and the request to use sheet music. I have to admit I don't think I would have ever though to put these things together for a painting on my own. Doing these commissioned still life paintings are a great stretch for the creative muscles. It must have taken me over 2 hours to come up with something that worked, especially for this small size (7x5).   I must thank my lovely wife for the coming up with the name for this one. I was really stumped on until she suggested background music as a title. I liked it because of the sentimental meaning to most of the objects in the painting. To read more about this painting please visit my blog. http://georgedechiara.com/blog Visit my web site to see more of my work. http://georgedechiara.com

Lifelong Learning - Original Painting by George De Chiara

Lifelong Learning 8x10 inches Oil on Canvas Panel by George De Chiara This is one of the commission pieces I've been working on for the last few days. The idea is based on of one of my daily paintings, Desktop. This time I was able to expanded upon the idea and truly flesh it out. With this version, you can see more of the lamp and a few more objects placed though out the scene. I was even able to use the lamp as more of a direct light source with this painting, which is the first time I've tried this.  It did presented some problems though so I still had to use another light source that's not in the painting. I felt without the additional light, the scene just looked a little too dark.  After all, the light in the picture only has a 45 watt bulb in it and it's one of those small-sized bulbs on top of that. To read more about this painting please visit my blog. http://georgedechiara.com/blog Visit my web site to see more of my work. http://georgedechiara.com