Rodeo Plaza - Original Oil Painting by George De Chiara

Rodeo Plaza
9x12 inches
Oil on Linen Panel
by
George De Chiara

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This weekend I was invited to go paint at the Fort Worth Stockyards with a group of painters. We had beautiful weather to paint in on Saturday morning. After considering several interesting sites, I chose to paint this view of Fincher's Western Store because I was so drawn to the shadows against the white building and the clear blue sky. The view reminded me of something Edward Hopper (Early Sunday Morning) might paint and after spending the day painting it, I can better appreciate why he chose his subjects for a painting. For me, scenes like this are all about the abstract patterns, like the way the chimney on the roof creates a nice break in the big blue (sky) shape behind it. I am also attracted to the way the windows and shadows create interesting shapes in the big white space of the building's wall. These shapes are really what I was thinking about when I painted this.

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Pumpkins - an original oil painting by George De Chiara

Pumpkins
6x8 inches
Oil on Canvas Panel
by
George De Chiara

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I love this time of the year. The weather finally starts to cool off, the leaves start to change, and the pumpkins go on sale for Halloween. I just love all these miniatures varieties they have out now. When I was a kid, the only type I remember where those that you could carve. Now don't get me wrong, I like those too, but for paintings, I tend to go for the miniatures. They have great color patterns and come in all kinds of colors. Plus, they are a lot of fun to paint so when I ran across these the other day at the gardening store, I just couldn't pass them up. Today, I finally got a chance to use them in painting.

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Moving Hay an original oil painting by George De Chiara

Moving Hay
6x8 inches
Oil on Canvas Panel
by
George De Chiara

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On my blog I have two posts about this painting. One is how I used my reference images in Photoshop to lay out my composition of this painting. The other is a step-by-step demonstration of the painting process.

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Tin Roofs - An Original Oil Painting by George De Chiara

Tin Roofs
9x12 inches
Oil on Linen Panel
by
George De Chiara

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I'm always gathering reference images of scenes I might one day be interested in painting. Often years can go by without thinking about them. Then one day, I'll get the itch to paint something particular and rifle through my reference images until I find the "one". I can't recall the exact location of this scene any longer, but it's somewhere along the Illinois/Wisconsin border. I must have hundreds of these types of images from when I lived in the Midwest. I took the reference image for this painting at least 25 years ago. There's a date stamped on the back on the image (remember when they use to do when they developed them?), but it's mostly worn off. The only part I can read is it's from September, which seems rather appropriate, though that's not the reason I choose this image. I just loved how these building were sitting down in this little valley. The sun made such a strong pattern of light and dark on them, but what really attracted me to this scene was the background landscape. The patterns of the fields and trees were just too much to resist.

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Apples and Peaches by George De Chiara

Apples and Peaches
8x10 inches
Oil on Linen Panel
by
George De Chiara

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I thought it might be interesting to write about the process of setting up a still life, so when I set this one up I made sure to take lots of pictures along the way. You can find all of these images, along with my thoughts as the set up progressed from just a few pieces of cloth to the completed arrangement on my blog here. I also have a complete step-by-step demonstration of this painting coming to life on my blog here.

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