Pat's finished painting...

Here's Pat's finished painting from our painting challenge/swap... Bernie and Pat's Painting Challenge / Swap...

Pat's watercolor painting... Currently displayed in an art show titled "What I Did Last Summer"...
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Bravo Pat!

Pat's sister is also an artist... her name is Marge Drew... visit her art webpage HERE.

Small Study: Painting for Pat

Recently I mentioned about the painting challenge/swap between me and Pat...

Bernie and Pat's Painting Challenge / Swap...

I spoke with her via email the other day and she said she was working on her painting so I figured I better get started. I was experimenting with a limited palette... three colors plus white... the one used by the master Anders Zorn. Here's the result...

Pat's reference photo...

my interpretation...

6x8" Oil on panel, alla prima, using the Zorn palette (Yellow Ochre, Cad Red Lt, Ivory Black w/ Ultramarine Blue, and Titanium White), 8-14-2008.

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Bernie and Pat's Painting Challenge / Swap...

Tami and I met many great people on our tour... Pat and Kimberly were two of them. Pat and I hit it off from the very beginning... a day or two into the tour we found out that we were both artists... Pat works in watercolors and I work in oils. We decided to have a little challenge... submit three photos each to paint from. I am to select one of Pat's photos and she is to select one from mine... we paint then we swap... OK... more of a swap than a challenge. Whatever you call it the result will be a COOL keepsake from a new friend and a lasting memory of our trip to Ireland.

Pictured left to right: Tami, Bernie (me), Pat, and Kimberly (Pat's daughter).

Here are the three photos I took for Pat to choose to paint from....

Mutton Island Lighthouse, Galway Bay

Galway Bay Boats

Bicycle in Galway City alley... loose the blue plastic bag and this will make a good painting...

These are the three photos that Pat took for me to paint from...

Thatched cottage at Bunratty Folk Park...

Decorative window from Bunratty Folk Park...

A rock at Glendalaugh on a visit to the monistary ruins...

I'll be sure to post the paintings when finished...

Bernie