Family Portrait 2010

I tried to paint this in secret – like I had done with the Small Critters on Bikes. Painting in secret while Amanda was at work or after she went to sleep and then just hang it up one night or afternoon and wait to see how long it took for her to notice… unfortunately, being somewhat LARGER, it was considerably harder to hide away – the small critters could be tucked in a book… this beast… not so much…

Anyway Amanda found out I was painting “something” – having spied the back of the large painting hidden away in basement. At that point I pretty much had to just show her lest she build up in her mind some sort of brilliant masterpiece that no physical painting I could ever produce would ever live up to.

(Remember: click on the pictures below to see a slightly larger version)


Family Portrait 2010, November 2010, Acrylic on MDF, 81x59cm

This is the biggest painting I’ve worked on for quite some time. It was fun, but challenging… Same level of detail on larger painting = lot more work (and a lot more time!). It almost felt like the high productivity level I was feeling just a month ago ground to a halt. It almost did… the last week I was almost sick of it – and the stuff that needed to be done was just fixing up wonky little details… ugh… it was hard to motivate myself to work on it, but impossible to move on with other projects until this one was finished.

Well finished it is. Time to move on to something else…

Dromedary Rides a Touring Bike

Carrying on with the BIG Critters on Bikes…

(Remember: click on the pictures below to see a slightly larger version)


Dromedary Rides a Touring Bike, November 2010, Acrylic on MDF, ~50x40cm

I’m not sure how many of the others I’m going to repaint. I have some new critters in mind. Maybe I’ll do some of the others when I’m done some of them and don’t have an immediate new idea but want to just keep painting…

Coming soon on Tim’s Art Blog:

A family portrait…

I’ve been working on it for a few weeks now – hiding it, working on it during the day or after Amanda’s gone to bed, trying to keep it a secret as it was kind of going to be an xmas present… unfortunately it’s rather BIG and not so easy to hide and Amanda found out about it… She didn’t actually SEE what I was working on, but I had to tell her not to walk into part of a room she was about to walk into and she sort of figured it out.

After a couple of days I kind of left it out for her to see because once she knew I WAS working on something I knew she’d be imagining what it might be and getting better and better in her head and by the time she actually saw it… no matter how hard I’d worked on it… it wouldn’t be anything like what she was probably imagining and thus be a great disappointment. It makes things easier now, not having to sneak it around and work on it at odd hours, but it would have been nice to simply hang it on the wall one day and see how long it took for her to notice…

Then some more critters…