Guitar Painting/ Abstract Painting (One of my first ever made and SOLD paintings)

I did this painting in 2013. This was literally one of the first ever paintings i did on canvass. I believe it was the 3rd to be exact. This was also the largest canvass i had ever painted at the time. I remember staying up all night painting this, and I was kinda nervous painting something as large as this at the time.

Here are the process Shots......

I should add I am really self conscious about my realism so although early on Iam my artistic career i was doing much more of it, my confidence def was not there. This Guitar tho was one that i really liked

Of course this Guitar is an Original Paully C! lol

My first set of paintings were all called the drip series and had elements of drips in them. I want to say this was intentional, but when I was first starting out my control was not that good or technique. My first ever painting a water color called "BEACH FACE" started to have drips and I thought it looked cool so i went with it. It also gave me the freedom and confidence to be more relaxed painting knowing if i used to much water or if the paint started to drip, I would just go with it.

I was very inspired by Jackson Pollock, because he showed me that there is beauty in the madness or imperfections.

Here is me adding the drips and splatter

Here is a very sleep deprived me posing with the final painting that i completed just an hour before going to work that day at 8am

Below is a picture of the gentleman named Danny who purchased this painting at the annual event called ARTLANDO.

ARTLANDO is a badass event put on in the fall every year by Orlando Weekly. This was the inaugural year, and the first art event me and jenny really ever did. We arrived late, with no canopy to our tent we had to put a tarp over it and dealt with some pretty rainy conditions all day (thankful most of our work is acrylic), but all in all it was a tremendous success for our debut as working artist.

Here is a picture of our make do set up and our family mascot PENNY!

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Paul Columbus
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