home from church

10x8 oil on prepared panel..this painting was done from one of my father's black and white photos. he was a physician by vocation and photographer by avocation...i can still smell the developer in his darkroom on the third floor. he died in 1971 so you can imagine how old this photograph is!!

7 members like this

View Full Size

Tags:

Add a Comment

You need to be a member of The Complete Artist to add comments!

Join The Complete Artist

Comment by susie gregory on March 18, 2012 at 12:06: thanks everybody!!! - i just posted something yesterday - not from my dad - from a christmas card from a good friend..i'm doing a "grand" series...trying to do one small painting of all my friends' grands...in this case it was two at a time...i did go through more of his photos - he really loved city scenes at night..mostly chicago since i grew up in south bend, indiana...also some railroad stuff...lots to mull over...but i'm so glad you guys liked my church lady!!!....getting ready to watch IU play VCU...nobody is giving us any love - and stu - we did get to play nine holes on wednesday - davey...almost 3 month post rotator-cuff repair...(mine was worse..i had a slap lesion...yada, yada...) was able to swing without too much pain...he'd let his right hand come off the club on his follow through...he shot a 41 and i shot a 44...not too bad for our first outing of the year...go hoosiers!!!!

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on March 18, 2012 at 11:16: Susie, you've got a series to do now! There won't be any golf for months, unless you go out with the orange golf balls and it looks like basketball is over in Indiana for the year. Same here (although I only golf when they need someone to tear out some grass); Cal bombed out in the first round and we've had about 10 inches of rain the past week. I can't wait to see some more of your paintings from the old photos. Stu

Comment by Dirk Rampling on March 18, 2012 at 10:21: You've really captured something here Susie. Nice work.

Comment by susie gregory on March 16, 2012 at 13:27: thanks guys - this was a special painting for me...i'm planning to go through his photos to see what else i might find...

Comment by deb hill on March 16, 2012 at 1:13: Love this. Great job.

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on March 15, 2012 at 17:50: Susie, this is a great little painting, and I love the story you put with it. This is starting to look a bit like David Curtis to me! Stu