Finished “Reflections in a Quiet Pool”

Here is the completed pool picture as I promised. The official title is “Reflections in a Quiet Pool” or “השתקפויות במים שקטים” in Hebrew. On display as of next week in corridor next to the library in NDS Jerusalem.

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Meron path framed

Last week I took the new Meron Path picture for framing and I just got it back now from the framer. Looks really good. I have hung it in my living room so I can show it off.
As always I was a bit worried about how the painting would look framed. After the effort and [...]

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Painting updates

Two updates on the painting front.
Firstly I have finished the pond with reflections of reeds picture. I need to give it a name. I’ll post a photo in the enxt couple of days.
Secondly, the company where I work has an exhibition area where employees can display art and I am putting on a mini-exhibition there [...]

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Mt Meron picture finished

I’ve got to get a better name for this picture. I think it deserves it. Any ideas?
In any case, it’s finished. I finished it in fact a few days ago on Yom HaZikaron when I had a day off work. All in all about six hours work.
I’m pretty happy with it and the Mrs likes [...]

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Finished a picture

Impressive. I got this picture finished that I have been working on for quite a while. As I have said in previous posts I’m not getting a lot of painting done recently, both for objective reasons and a lowering of my motivation. In any case, I finally got this one finished and put it in [...]

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Painting progress

Quite a lot to report.
I have been busy painting this week and I finished up the Huleh Valley picture as you can see on the right. I like it a lot. It has a lot of depth and that misty distance came out fantastically. My only reservations may be in the row of trees at [...]

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Olive grove

I have finally finished the olive grove picture. As I wrote in the description on my site
The season is summer, the air is hot and still and the trees offer cool shade as the hot sun beats down on the burnt yellow grass.
Sounds like July-August. Hot.

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Spring views (Heb: “Nofei Aviv”)

In case you’re wondering, the title is a pun. The picture (now finished) was painted of a view view from the end of the last street in the Nofei Aviv neighbourhood of Beit Shemesh. Hmmm. Well, I thought it was funny.
Anyway, as I said another picture finished. The image above is a bit less than [...]

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A positive symphony of paint

So, it look likes it’s finished. I piut some finishing touches on this evening and I can’t see any more work that needs doing there.
A few comments on techniques. As I pointed out in my first post on this painting, I set out using “vectors” – lines that descibe the dynamics of the pictiure and [...]

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Jerusalem at night picture

I just realized that I never posted the finished Jerusalem-at-night picture on the blog. Anyway, here it is. You can see the “full-sized” version here

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