Landscape (Not Sure on Parchment)

This was framed and behind glass. I didn’t look as closely as I should have so I don’t know what medium was used. Is it pastel? Crayon? Colored Pencil? I’m thinking pastel. It’s not great but it is pretty good. The mountain and orange section of skyline is a little more appealing than whatever we see going on in the foreground.

Lake Castle (Acrylic on Canvas)

I like it. We get some truly awful paintings, we get some truly run-of-the-mill paintings, and then we sometimes get stuff like this. It’s not great, but it is good. And it is so much better than the “not good” majority here that it winds being really really appealing. So I like it! I hope you do too…

Bible Quote and Cactus (Acrylic on Canvas)

I appreciate the bible quoting. But this is one underwhelming cactus. It appears…furry? And it looks like it is growing out of a felt flapper hat. And my usual complaint: too much left-unpainted canvas. Ugh.

Horseshoe and Wheat (Pen and Acrylic on Canvas)

Technically proficient. But rather uninteresting, subject-wise. Just my two cents: maybe some cowpoke or desperado might think it’s perfectly lovely.

I will say this: that is some nicely-done and realistic-looking barn wood!

Green Forest (Acrylic on Canvas)

I looked this fella up and he’s Italian. As in “Born in Italy, Living In Italy, Speaking Italian”-Italian. And this painting is pretty nice I think. How this thing came to be in Fairbanks Alaska I have no idea. The general consensus (that’d be me and my wife) is that these might be Birch trees, which we have a lot of around these here parts. But maybe not. I sent this guy a message via FB asking if this was his work and what his deal is. No answer yet.

Black Forest (Acrylic on Canvas)

Black, and Grey. Those two colors (along with “left-unpainted canvas” white, purple, pink and blue) are my most hated colors, painting-wise. That having been said, this painting doesn’t really annoy me that much, for some reason. It’s not great, or even good, but something about it has risen above the level of “actively bad”. 

It’s…reasonably okay!

Carnival Mask (Acrylic on Canvas)

I’m really starting to hate this place.

Anyone want to buy an online Art Museum?

(Just kidding. I actually love doing this. For realz.)

This thing is kind of terrifying though.

(Not kidding. At all.)

Alaska (Acrylic on some kind of slate?)

Again with the blue and purple. Sigh. 

This thing should come with a seizure warning.

Castle (Acrylic on Canvas)

Awful awful colors. So much black. And so much blue and pink and purple (i.e. the Unholy Trinity of Amateur Artist’s most frequently overused colors.) Despite all this, there is something about the castle that’s…not absolutely horrible.

Elsa (Acrylic on Canvas)

Plebian and Pop-Culture-y? Definitely. And while there are parts of this that are ehh a little off (the weird smallish arm, the malformed hand, the smushed and angular face, the braids, etc) overall it’s really not bad! Someone was trying hard and doing their best. And we support that.

So keep painting, Shira!

Skull and Rosary (Ink and Acrylic on Canvas)

Strange and creepy but technically proficient. Not my cup of tea (too much unpainted canvas, the pink/purple bits, etc) Still. It’s pretty good, for what it is.