The Paintings of One Old Hobbyist: Some old paintings

TRASH OR TREASURE?

I decided that I've accumulated a lot of "old" paintings. Meaning stuff that goes back to when I decided to restart my hobby in earnest about 2005 or so. I'd been painting acrylics for many years until I started my consultancy in 1985. At that time, I decided to "abandon" painting to emphasize my business. In 2005, after much of my consulting business went overseas, I resumed acrylics, this time focusing on brush painting rather than airbrush painting.

I dug the paintings that follow from under a workbench. Many of the paintings are from photos I've taken on my trips around the world.

Some are okay, some need some redoing, and some need to be painted over. Right now, however, I consider this thread of the blog to be a repository for them. There is no rhyme or reason to their order here. I will try to identify their source, however.

Abandoned estate at the Thai-Cambodian border

Balboa Park, San Diego

Bok Tower, Florida

Window and Doorway, Burgundy, France

Lake Canandiagua, New York

From a B+W photo in newspaper

A church in Southern Germany

Photo taken from van window

An inn, taken from that same van in Southern Germany

Beach at Destin, FL in Feb

Second from 7AM photo

Trainmaster house, Dunedin FL

Bldg on left was supposed to be a modern office building but the attachment to the early 20th century National Register house was violently objected to by the townsfolk. As a result, the building was torn down and the house was moved to another part of the town