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This painting was done in response to Michael Naples painting challenge from the Daily Paintworks site.
The challenge was to paint the Zippo lighter that he had photographed using these three colors only, burnt sienna, ultramarine blue and titanium white. As some of you know I have done portraits using those three colors so the process is familiar. I chose instead to use a lighter I have which is a Wind Master using colored paper close to the colors in his photograph. One big difference is that my lighter is not shinny but burnished and of course being a different brand the mechanics are different. It was a fun challenge.
The printing plant where my father worked gave him the lighter when he left for the Korean War, he never smoked as far as I knew so the lighter is like new also he returned to his job when the war was over. Worked for them until he retired.
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10 comments:
Great job.
Superb! Loved also the history of your father's lighter. Poignant.
You did such a nice job with this challenge Lighter painting. It is really very nice.
This is wonderful, I love it. Perfect.
Fantastic Claudia! Nice clear colour : )
This is such an interesting painting. I like the colors so much and the way it keeps my eyes moving around.
I really love your painting,especially that it was your Dads' and that you did it from life!
Oh so gorgeous...the painting and the story...
This one is awesome, love it
Claudia,
Good job on the challenge. Nice tweak.
–Raymond/3
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