Comment by Susan Knight Smith on December 6, 2009 at 11:12pm

Gary, what a fabulous painting. Love the color play and the composition. Amazing that you painted it from your imagination. Wish I could do that!

Comment by Gary Baughman on December 7, 2009 at 9:19am

Thanks, Susan. I don't know where these ideas come from, the images just emerge. I do a value sketch and work from that. This one used a gator board support covered in red tinted Golden pumice/gesso mix brushed on in random strokes with a cheap brush. Sparkling bits of red show through on the finished painting. Thanks for your compliment.

Comment by Marsha Hamby Savage on December 7, 2009 at 10:26am

Hi Gary, like the painting. It also amazes me you can come up with this just from imagination. Or . . . did you have several references? Just a question. When I just paint from my imagination, the painting is a little "too high definition" and I must learn to tone it down a notch!

Comment by Gary Baughman on December 7, 2009 at 11:28am

Thanks, Marsha. Images just fly out of my head. I can't explain it. Then I just go with the flow and watch my hand at work. Everything is intuitive based on my experiences. I know it sounds weird but it seems to work for me. I was on your site recently, I love your work and you just get better and better as time goes by. You are my heroine!

Comment by Lisa Mozzini-McDill on April 11, 2010 at 2:04am

Really really beautiful!!

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