tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64540293355978658292024-03-14T06:36:05.535-04:00100 Paintings by AdamOriginal Oil Paintings by Adam HoustonAdam Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03088575706007114973noreply@blogger.comBlogger357125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454029335597865829.post-19230121081585221272015-12-30T15:53:00.000-05:002016-01-04T15:54:48.472-05:00No. 350 - Barnyard Rooster<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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8" x 6" - Oil on Canvas Panel</div>
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I had a few other chicken shots from 2011 and wanted to try this guy. I loved painting the high key colors on this one. The colors looks crazy if you focus on them but it works (I hope) as a whole.<br />
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Well, this is it for 2015. Another 100 in the books. I'm going to take a week off and then try to keep on painting. I feel like I feel like I've learned <i>so much</i> over the last 45 days and don't want to lose that momentum. Happy new year!!!Adam Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03088575706007114973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454029335597865829.post-44406376635231866702015-12-29T15:46:00.000-05:002016-01-08T22:08:50.475-05:00No. 349 - Barnyard Hen (2015)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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8" x 6" - Oil on Canvas Panel<br />
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I was completely running out of ideas at the end here and decided to go back through some <i>old</i> shots. As I got into these I thought it would be fun to revisit some of the existing paintings and see how differently I would see them. This one is a throw-back to <a href="http://100paintingsbyadam.blogspot.com/2011/06/painting-no-118-barnyard-hen.html" target="_blank">No. 118</a> from 2011.Adam Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03088575706007114973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454029335597865829.post-78382124648602713662015-12-28T15:40:00.000-05:002016-01-04T15:42:59.662-05:00No. 348 - Orange with Two Leaves<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was running out of gas with the cows and saw this orange at our local grocery store. The orange color on this was so intense that I had a hard time mixing a color that was accurate.Adam Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03088575706007114973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454029335597865829.post-65886361748282631692015-12-27T12:07:00.000-05:002015-12-28T12:08:04.014-05:00No. 347 - Lake Lanier Sky<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We've had unusually warm weather lately and I was able to take some time this weekend to paint at Lake Lanier. The clouds and sky were changing fast while I was painting, so those pieces had to be laid down very quickly. </div>
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6" x 8" - Oil on Canvas Panel</div>
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Here is the last of the cows for the year. These were so fun to paint and I'll be revisiting them in 2016!Adam Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03088575706007114973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454029335597865829.post-12173873723092766612015-12-25T16:24:00.000-05:002015-12-26T16:26:21.874-05:00No. 345 - Cows in a Field<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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12" x 9" - Oil on Linen Panel</div>
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Mixing it up a bit, here are two cows in a field. These guys were so much fun to paint and I'm loving the warm and cool grays when painting these cows.Adam Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03088575706007114973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454029335597865829.post-79621133271986007942015-12-24T16:21:00.000-05:002015-12-26T16:23:16.441-05:00No. 344 - Grazing Cow II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's another grazing cow. I love the blues and pinks that make up the "white" in shadow. So much fun to paint.Adam Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03088575706007114973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454029335597865829.post-56778061073298002272015-12-23T09:00:00.000-05:002015-12-23T09:00:15.116-05:00No. 343 - Grazing Cow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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8" x 6" - Oil on Canvas Panel</div>
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I wanted to have little fun and try a few cow paintings at the end of the year. Much like the painting of <a href="http://100paintingsbyadam.blogspot.com/2015/07/no-299-mr-truman.html" target="_blank">Truman</a> from earlier in the year, this one is really reliant on warm and cool colors.Adam Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03088575706007114973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454029335597865829.post-68189314773473823552015-12-22T11:06:00.002-05:002015-12-22T11:06:43.149-05:00No. 342 - Jekyll Island Club<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's a painting of the Jekyll Island Club on, wait for it, Jekyll Island. This was tricky to paint on a small board, but it was fun to try and reduce so much detail to the essential elements.Adam Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03088575706007114973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454029335597865829.post-47395653081630874252015-12-21T10:42:00.000-05:002015-12-21T10:45:41.061-05:00No. 341 - Lovely Lane Chapel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I wanted to revisit <a href="http://100paintingsbyadam.blogspot.com/2015/10/no-320-not-so-lovely-lane.html" target="_blank">No. 320</a> from earlier in the year and redeem that awful painting. This one is just a <i>little bit</i> better. I'm gonna be posting daily through the end of the year to hit 100.Adam Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03088575706007114973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454029335597865829.post-26372256023825907012015-12-20T09:00:00.000-05:002015-12-20T09:00:21.288-05:00No. 340 - Pears and a Pomegranate <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was able to get one more painting of these pairs before they went south. I originally painted this on a 12" x 9" but the composition bother me so I trimmed it back a little bit.</div>
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Here's the last painting I did during my workshop with James Richards. I felt a little goofy painting something like this during an event like that, but my daughter had requested a painting of "bunny" and I wanted it to be a good one. As with the others, James helped me see the colors that I did not pick-up on and made it better in so many ways.<br />
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This painting takes me back to <a href="http://100paintingsbyadam.blogspot.com/2010/03/painting-no-18-size-8c.html" target="_blank">No. 18</a> from way back in 2010. We've moved on from baby shoes, but all I can still see is her growing up way too fast. I'm glad we'll have this one as a record of these days.Adam Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03088575706007114973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454029335597865829.post-37353700702612155642015-12-16T08:30:00.000-05:002015-12-16T08:30:30.793-05:00No. 338 - Bulow Creek Marsh<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is the second painting from my workshop with <a href="http://artistjamesrichards.com/" target="_blank">James Richards</a>. Much like the last one, he caught me just in time and helped push this painting into a different place. I had all this detail in the tree on the right, and he brushed all that out to show how much stronger it can be when you simplify. </div>
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This painting features Faith Chapel on Jekyll Island. We were there this summer, and the light was so clear on the church that I knew it would be fun to paint. I had a workshop coming up with <a href="http://artistjamesrichards.com/" target="_blank">James Richards</a> and saved this one to work on during the weekend.<br />
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At the workshop, I got the painting to the point where I normally drive it off the cliff when it was my turn to receive feedback. James picked up the paintbrush, studied it for a minute, and then started painting. It was unbelievably helpful to see someone <i>so talented</i> take over where I constantly fall. So much of painting is decision making, and it was fascinating to watch his process directly change something I was processing.<br />
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Needless to say, I painted this but it was James who made it what it is. He painted directly on this and made it what it is.Adam Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03088575706007114973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454029335597865829.post-51025348965107814392015-12-12T08:30:00.000-05:002016-01-08T22:10:01.887-05:00No. 336 - Single Pomegranate<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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6" x 6" - Oil on Linen Panel<br />
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I've know for a while about "lost" edges but always get wound up when I'm painting and want things to be crisp and clear. I really tried hard to let the right side of the pomegranate disappear and have that line be more invisible.<br />
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Compared to No. 195 from a while back you can see how that works (I think) a lot better. Carol Marine talks in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Daily-Painting-Creative-Productive-Successful/dp/0770435335/" target="_blank">her book</a> about objects looking "cut out" and stuck on with beginner painters.<br />
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The paint got a little thick on this because I kept adding more and more color to the pears. I would mix a color, it would look orange on the palette and when I laid it down it looked like a green/gray.Adam Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03088575706007114973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454029335597865829.post-54800592854315626052015-12-08T08:02:00.003-05:002015-12-08T08:02:41.328-05:00No. 334 - Forest Stream<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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11" x 14" - Oil on Canvas Panel</div>
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This was painted on-site just off the Chattahoochee River near Buford Dam. I don't know why I thought it was a good idea to start with an 11" x 14" on a scene like this, but I had hiked in and was going to walk out with something. This was the first time I had to pack-up because the sun was going down. I've not painted a lot in Winter, and you don't realize how fast the sun starts going down this time of year. I was glad though, they were closing the parking lot, and I made it with 2 minutes to spare.<br />
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8" x 10" - Oil on Linen Panel</div>
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Here's a view of a small stream off the Chattahoochee River. I actually painted this scene first on site, then did this one, then finished the original Plein Air one. I wanted to do it again because it was so hard on-site and I thought I might have more luck working from a photo. No such luck. I've got a ways to go before I can tackle something like this.Adam Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03088575706007114973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454029335597865829.post-72673277486605046972015-12-04T08:30:00.000-05:002015-12-04T08:30:01.718-05:00No. 332 - Lily Pads at Gibbs Gardens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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6" x 6" - Oil on Canvas Panel</div>
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Lily pads are so overdone but I wanted to try this one because of the way the light fell across the pond. The light turned it into a warm vs. cool color exercise and I wanted to experiment with using color as a way to make them read correctly.Adam Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03088575706007114973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454029335597865829.post-25766700069315293162015-12-02T08:30:00.000-05:002015-12-02T08:30:01.487-05:00No. 331 - Single Pear<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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8" x 10" - Oil on Linen Panel</div>
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After getting in several ruts with the landscapes I've decided to try some still life paintings as a way to mix it up. Looking back over 2015, it's hard to believe that this is really the first one I've done. It was a lot of fun painting this and getting back with the pears.<br />
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I bought some <a href="http://www.jerrysartarama.com/discount-art-supplies/canvas-and-boards/canvas-panels-and-boards/centurion-deluxe-oil-primed-linen-panels.htm" target="_blank">Centurion linen panels</a> after the recommendation by James Richards and those things are wonderful to paint on. It's a smooth surface but the paint does not lift off like other linen panels I've used.Adam Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03088575706007114973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454029335597865829.post-44748920241345030352015-11-30T09:57:00.001-05:002015-11-30T09:57:53.402-05:00No. 330 - Ranch Gate Road Tree<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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6" x 6" - Oil on Canvas Panel</div>
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This one is from my trip the California this summer. I was driving up this steep hill and loved the way the tree, power lines and shadows all worked together. Earlier I would have edited out the power pole/lines but I'm trying to work with what's there and learn how to paint more complex scenes.Adam Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03088575706007114973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454029335597865829.post-18896541170441815722015-11-27T09:54:00.000-05:002015-11-30T09:55:20.341-05:00No. 329 - Jekyll Island Marsh III<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's the third attempt at the Jekyll Island Marsh scene. I wanted to try it on a linen panel and with a slightly different cropping.Adam Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03088575706007114973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454029335597865829.post-79643493913805066742015-11-20T08:12:00.004-05:002015-11-20T08:12:56.662-05:00No. 328 - Grazing in the Mist<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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He's a little painting of the morning fog and mist in Chattanooga with a few cows grazing. I love painting scenes like this because it forces you to intensely look at what you are painting and not fall back on "rules."Adam Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03088575706007114973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454029335597865829.post-6078963953250489322015-11-18T09:08:00.000-05:002015-11-18T09:08:35.956-05:00No. 327 - Highlands Garden Sunlight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been in a funk lately and had been staring at this canvas for almost two weeks before jumping in and finishing it. It's a bit of a mess, but sometimes you have to complete something so you can move on. Or at least I do.Adam Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03088575706007114973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454029335597865829.post-90855034374706977092015-11-16T09:35:00.000-05:002015-11-16T09:35:10.672-05:00No. 326 - Haw Creek Trees<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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6" x 8" - Oil on Canvas Panel</div>
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We've been having <i>so much rain</i> here in Georgia lately. One Saturday we had a window where was only misting and our family spent some time at a local park. It had been weeks since I painted outside, so I bright my small pochade kit and knocked this out while Evi played.Adam Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03088575706007114973noreply@blogger.com0