Fixing the Chalk – Work in Progress Final Stage

Posted on May 5th, 2010 { 6 Comments }

Well, it’s done! I just finished the painting and wanted to post a quick picture. Now it’s time to let it dry so I can take a better more professional picture later on.

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Original Paintings @Auction

Posted on April 27th, 2010 { 2 Comments }

This and many of the small paintings and studies of landscapes, figurative, still lives and florals that are in my studio/gallery will be available @auction directly from my site. To view the collection of paintings at auction follow this link http://www.manuelavalenti.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=47_86. New paintings are added daily so check back often.

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Summer Fun Oil Painting

Posted on February 4th, 2010 { 4 Comments }

This sure was a fun painting to do! As I’m counting the paintings for the show, I realized an hour ago, that I’m missing some works, since I have empty frames, the horror! so brush in hand I grabbed a board and started painting a photograph I took this past summer of a boy having…

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Lost Outside Richelieu, France – final stage

Posted on February 1st, 2010 { No Comments }

It’s 1: 34pm and I just finished taking a few pictures of the final painting just for my blog. I’ll wait until tomorrow when the oil is a little bit dry to take the final high resolution pictures on my photography studio, but for now this is it. It was a long journey to finish…

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Lost Outside Richelieu, France – Working on the Shadows

Posted on February 1st, 2010 { No Comments }

Good morning! This is to show you what I woke up to. I took the picture really fast as you can see for the glare on the left side (pardon me I’m quite in a hurry this morning!) I made some progress last night, was able to start the shadows (still working on them), the…

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