Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, Comerica Park, daily painter, Detroit Tigers, Landscape, MLB, MLB Ballparks, Virginia Artist on September 23, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Comerica Park
Detroit Tigers
Number 26 in the series of 30, Comerica Park is the home of the Detroit Tigers. It is one of only two modern ball parks that feature the dirt strip between home plate and the pitcher’s mound. (The other being Chase Field.) Beyond the outfield is a beautiful view of the Detroit skyline. The scoreboard at Comerica features two large tigers on top and when a home run is scored their eyes light up and growls are played on the loud speakers.
Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, baseball, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Major League Baseball, Miller Park, Milwaukee Brewers, MLB, Virginia Artist on September 19, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Miller Park
Milwaukee Brewers
Miller Park, home of the Milwaukee Brewers, is number 25 in the series of 30. And it has a retractable roof. The left field corner features Bernie’s Dugout, where the Brewers mascot, Bernie Brewer resides. At the beginning of the game, after every Brewers home run, and if the Brewers win, fireworks go off and Bernie slides down his slide.
Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, Colorado Rockies, Coors Field, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Major League Baseball, MLB, Virginia Artist on September 16, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Coors Field
Colorado Rockies
Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies, in Denver, Colorado features a center field bleacher area known as the “Rock Pile”. And the seats beginning at Row 20 on the Upper Deck are purple indicating the city’s one mile elevation point.
Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, baseball, daily painter, impressionism, Kickstarter project, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, Major League Baseball, MLB, Painted Diamonds, Virginia Artist on September 14, 2013| 2 Comments »
The last few weeks I have been feeling a lot of pressure to finish the last few ball park paintings in the Kickstarter Painted Diamonds project. There are only a few more to go. What I did this past week was start several and work on parts of each every day. I find this is more interesting at this point in the project. Yesterday was spent painting, painting, painting. And that is the plan for this weekend too!
Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Marlins Park, Miami Marlins, MLB, Virginia Artist on September 11, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Marlins Park
Miami Marlins
Miami Marlins Park is number 23 in the Painted Diamonds series. The retractable-roof building is air-conditioned, with separate, retractable glass walls beyond the fences. This engineering provides fans with uninterrupted views of downtown Miami while offering relief from Miami’s intense heat, humidity, and frequent rain during the Summer. It is also designed to withstand strong hurricanes. A 75-foot home run sculpture behind center field lights up and animates when the home team hits one.
Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, baseball, Cincinnati Reds, daily painter, daily painting, Great American Ball Park, impressionism, MLB, MLB Ballparks, Virginia Artist on September 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Great American Ball Park
Cincinnati Reds
The 22nd ball park in the series of Painted Diamonds is The Great American Ball Park – home of the Cincinnati Reds. See all the paintings in the series here.
Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, Baseball fields, Baseball parks, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, MLB, Virginia Artist on August 29, 2013| 1 Comment »
Here are five of the “Painted Diamonds” ball park paintings that were recently being varnished and prepared for framing. (You can see that Mamie was helping me!) Once the paintings are completed I give them some time to dry thoroughly and then I went back over them, touching up any areas that I felt needed a little more work, signed them, varnished them, and put them in frames. This all in preparation for the exhibit that will be held from October 23 – November 8 at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. The Opening Reception will be Wednesday, October 23rd from 6 – 8 pm. Please mark your calendar and plan to attend. It will be a fun evening with a baseball theme (of course). I’ll post more about it as the plans are finalized.
Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, Citizens Bank Park, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, MLB, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Phillies, Virginia Artist on August 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Citizens Bank Park
Philadelphia Phillies
Citizens Bank Park, home of the Philadelphia Phillies, is the 21st ball park that I have painted in the Painted Diamonds series.
It features a giant Liberty Bell that lights up, rings and swings back and forth!
Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, Dodgers Stadium, impressionism, Landscape, Los Angeles Dodgers, MLB, MLB Ballparks, Virginia Artist on August 20, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Dodgers Stadium
Los Angeles Dodgers
Dodgers Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is number 20 in the series of 30 Major League Ball Parks. I’m 2/3rds of the way finished with the project.
Dodgers Stadium is known for it’s no gimmick and simple ball park design.
Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, baseball, Baseball parks, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Kansas City Royals, Kauffman Stadium, Major League Baseball, MLB, Virginia Artist on August 12, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Kauffman Stadium
Kansas City Royals
Number 19 in the series of 30 is Kauffman Stadium – home of the Kansas City Royals. The stadium is known for having the largest privately funded fountain in the world, a 322 foot fountain and waterfall on display before and after the game and in-between innings.
All the paintings in this series are acrylic on canvas measuring 18″x24″.
The Studio 