Louisiana Blue Crab

Newest painting from New Orleans
the Louisiana blue crab.
In progress 
16 x 20 acrylic
on stretched canvas

New Orleans Cemeteries Cherub

In -progress Acrylic on canvas

New Orleans jazz player

done

Wine and Jazz paintings

Updates to Two of several in progress paintings.

Wine Painting

working the glow at the base of the decanter.

New Orleans sidewalk street sign Royal Street

My latest New Orleans landmark painting, Royal St sidewalk (banquet in New Orleans parlance)tile, street sign. Antique stores and art galleries line the French quarter section of the street, where the annual Art celebration "Dirty Linen" takes place the second Saturday of August. small. acrylic on canvas.

LE CREMA WINE PAINTING

Ended this touch up session (more to follow), by sketching in and lining up the letters on the label.

New Orleans French Quarter Royal Street Hitching Post

More dark highlights applied in this session. Acrylic on Linen Paper.

New Orleans French Quarter Hitching Post

A few more  dark and light layers stained on to the Royal Street in progress hitching post

Lecrema Wine Painting

Frequently after coming back after a break from a long  session, a fresh eye on the subject can be  very revealing. I realised with this update  I needed to spend more  time on  some reflections and highlights, to the bottle and glass rim. That's what got all my attention with this pass today.
I am becoming pleased with the on going developments following these last stages.

LeCrema Wine Bottle, Wine Glass and Decanter

On the home stretch with updates just about daily applied to this 16 x 20 canvas commissioned piece.
Once the the Decanter is complete it's on to the label, then final touch-ups.

Wine Bottle Glass and Decanter

More work on top of glass top background and deanter

Nola Vie article on my art

Thanks NOLAVIE.COM , for article about my paintings.
Link to article  can be found here.

New Orleans French Quarter Royal St Hitchin Post

Added a few more layered stains in black and blue tones to this in progress Royal Street Hitchin post in front of Brennan's restaurant

New Orleans French Quarter Hitching Post

In progress new project.
New Orleans French Quarter hitching post in front of Brennan's restaurant,Royal Street New Orleans

LeCrema Wine

Very latest layer

Maltese/Poodle

16 x 20 Acrylic on canvas

LECREMA Wine Painting

Gettin' my bearings on accuracy by simulated framing..still in progress!

Wine Painting

Another quick and subtle touch up to this session of the in progress wine tasting update.

"Eye"

Looking through some old photos, recently I came across a couple of old paintings. This is one those. One of my first experimental paintings in realism. This painting hooked me on realism painting.
This painting is one of my all time favorite paintings.

Wine Glass, Bottle and Decanter

Finally started the bottom of the Decanter in this commission wine painting.... slowly but surely.

Wine Painting

Touch up to table and more highlights  to wine glass

WINE PAINTING

Finally resloved a few technical issues with the bottom portion of the wine bottle and it's label border. Now on to complete the rest of the bottle  as well as start work on the adjacent  decanter

More work on the New Orleans Lakefront Bench

New Orleans Lakefront

Started the bench to the New Orleans  Lakefront Lakeshore Drive  painting. An iconic  scene along the south shores of Lake Pontchartrain.

Wine Glass -Bottle Painting

Getting in done bit by bit.
A few more touches onto base of bottle foreground of table

Wine Glass, Bottle and Decanter

A few new highlights to Glass and Wine Bottle

Wine Decanter and Bottle

Bringing out brighter light reflections with several  more passes over the white  highlights in the on-going Wine Decanter and Bottle  painting.

New Orleans Lakefront ( in progress)

This  new New Orleans Painting of Lakeshore Drive New Orleans,  with an iconic New Orleans lakefront bench in distance, is painted from  source photo ( also shown). As in the source photo, in this in progress painting, future posts will show the bench as distant object with foreground grass blades being the main focus of painting

Wine Glass Decanter and Wine Bottle

Going up the wine glass,  added a few layers and background at top of glass.Softened reflected light on table surface. Latest changes to the on-going updates forWine Glass Decanter and Wine Bottle  .

Finally getting a  few more layers glazed over the New Orleans Jazz Saxophone Player's face  and hand ( below). Also further defined the mouthpiece.Still lots to do yet and got to be real careful  and do justice to Aldophe Sax's  windwood instrument.  
I feel a real challenge on the way!  Come back and see how I do!  
As earlier mentioned, this painting was inspired by a source photo that was taken in a procession passing in front of Royal Sonesta Hotel New Orleans, Mardi Gras weekend this year.

"Le Crema" Wine painting, commissioned for a New Orleans area home, dining room. Progress - update

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"Wine Decanter and Bottle on Table", and " New Orleans Sax Player"

 

Two of the most recent paintings I am working toward completing first,  "Wine Decanter and Bottle on Dinner Table", and  " New Orleans Sax Player", had a few touches and  layers applied to them over the past several days.

Wine Glass

Another  run across and further defined  border of base of wine glass of
WINE GLASS BOTTLE AND DECANTER  painting

Louisiana Plantation

Acrylic on stretched canvas in-progress commission

New Orleans Jazz Saxophone Player..update

A few more passes over face and enhancing facial profile through movement of white
background border.
One of series of several new New Orleans related paintings.
16x 20  Acrylic on stretched canvas

New Orleans Jazz-Saxophone Player

 

 First in a series of New Orleans related original paintings

In Progress after several layers applied.16 x 20 on canvas

Latest painting is wine glass in front of decanter, aside a bottle of wine, on dining room table
First few of multiple layers and sessions.16 x 20 Acrylic on stretch canvas