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Toucan flight

abz 36″ x 36″ x 2 3/8″ abstract acrylic 7:
Green, purple, brown, orange, yellow commission

…and they say they love it!

abz with toucan flight
Had my picture taken with my first abstract acrylic commission before it was taken off to its new home… 7 September 2013

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Imageabz 24″ x 24″ abstract acrylic 1:
Black right angle, fine yellow line, yellow, purple and orange swishes

It is funny how things happen.

On Saturday, 17 August 2013, I was working at Marianist Galleries. An interior designer who knows Br. Mel comes in. She is there to meet a couple from her church who she is helping pick out art for their new home. The couple arrives, I tell them a bit about the gallery and invite them to look around and just, “yell if they need anything.” I get to work on my own work when gallery sitting on Saturdays.

A few minutes later, they have a question: “Does Br. Mel ever do commissions?”
“He sure does,” I said. They had picked out three samples of little watercolors I had in the card rack with the colors they like. I got to say, “Those are my watercolors!”

So this nice couple commissioned me to do a large acrylic abstract painting for their new home. The final size is to be 36″ x 36″.

Nothing like a commission to get me going on something. So, I have been doing a few paintings to get myself warmed up. Here is the first one using the colors they like. This got me on to a series with other colors.

I am tagging this week-long series “abz contemporary holy spirit art.” During the process of making them — from beginning to end — the holy spirit takes over as I have very little idea what I am doing.

The interior designer came in and she is sure they would like less orange in the final piece. More to come as the story continues…