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Author:glennCreated:1/27/2009
Writing about my creative expression, artwork, process of artwork, and ponderings. I plan to share my creative process and ponderings. I will also in time share paint brush information. For more information on my creative process or artwork, please email me at: mglennp@gmail.com Thank you for your support and interest in my work.

Progress report
By glenn on8/26/2009

At this point, the new Spacescape paintings are coming in.  We have five completed, three in process & more waiting to be painted.  We are doing the major push against the ending of the season.  Once the rain comes to tropical Seattle, we stop for the season. 

The Spacescape Series has gone large with one 30 X 40 finished, one in process, & two waiting to be painted.  Our plan is to finish the season with a 36 X 48.  I have foreseen that the 36 X 48's may become next season's new series.  The title is still percolating, but I am thinking about something like Multiple Universes.  The plan is to do more small detail painting around the edges of the large burst.  I am still in the process of constructing easel compon ...

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Painting time
By glenn on8/4/2009

I'm pretty excited about the next month or so.  We are gearing up to create several spacescape paintings before the rain returns to the Northwest.  We have four 24 X 30's , two 30 X 40's, and one 36 X 48 to paint.  I am confident that the larger canvases will turn out spectacular.  Team Rilfeart conducted an experiment on a couple of full size sheet rock panels and know that we can cover them. 

We will be painting after closing, you know where, and are welcome to participate.  Rifleart is a spectator event, and anyone with a spotting scope or binoculars has a good seat.  I will place an announcement on the home page of this website on painting days. 

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Spacescape series
By glenn on5/13/2009

Spacescape 2 is close to being completed.  It was painted with six strokes from my 20 vartarg.  Breaking from the established formula that was developed in the Multi-brushstroke Series was a surprise to me, but this painting is spectacular.  Spacescape 1 is still in process, and should be finished in a couple of weeks.  Sarah has been doing some interesting painting and highlighting before and after my range painting sessions, we hope you will like it.  Evolving from Multi-brushstroke to Spacescape is making me slow down in this whole process, now, the painting is finished when it is finished.  Spacescape 2 did not need any strokes from my .308.  Our new pattern is to do a couple of brushstrokes and bring in the canvas for drying.  We have found it more relaxing to paint in the evening instead of before range opening.

We will be taking ...

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single panel series 12
By glenn on3/17/2009

Sarah and I have been cataloging our paintings recently.  Much to our surprise, we found another single panel painting that has not been photographed or listed.  Look for this addition soon.

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results of time off
By glenn on3/13/2009

A good eye can spot Sarah and then me flying in formation with iQuad. We would like to thank John Barresi and the rest of iQuad, Steve, Bazzer, Monk, for this. Thier paitent guidence and inspiration sure helped us get to this point. The kiting community calls quad line flying "the dark side", but take it from an experienced kite flyer, quad line flying should be called the fun side. There is nothing in the kiting world as fun as having a kite that is so controllable and the skill to use it.

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time off
By glenn on3/2/2009

We will be offline for a week.  We are heading out to fly with iQuad.  http://www.revkites.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2175 

http://www.revkites.com/main/

Flying revolution kites has been a delightful pastime for around sixteen years that has become an obsession in the last two years. 

Our first spacescape painting has devoloped an interesting variation, and it has become one of Sarah's unique paintings.  We are preparing to paint two spacescapes upon our return, they will be 24 X 30.  We are working with a new custom easel that Doug Moore built for us.  This new easel makes it possible to paint from all directions and orientations.  Thank you Doug. 

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multi-brushstroke
By glenn on2/12/2009
I may be a little premature in this announcement, but the multi-brushstroke series ended yesterday. Our next planned series is a spacescape series. You will see a change in the last two multi-brushstroke paintings, Sarah has started experimenting with some background painting of the canvas before i do my painting. Her first try was subtle and the second canvas prep was quite bold. I hope you enjoy the changes as we experiment. Our new spacescape series will be done in a horizontal format and we will continue with Sarah's canvas prep. My painting team will be designing a new easel to accommodate this new format. We are looking at using a larger canvas, possibly 22 X 28, or 24 X 30. My initial vision sees spacescape as an even more labor intensive project where the canvas may be painted from various directions necessitating multiple drying sessions between brushstrokes.

My sincere thanks goes out to Ed Vinyard, our webmaster, who has been training Sarah to do all that computer stuff that ...
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hi
By glenn on2/2/2009
We have seven multi-brushstroke paintings showing now. Our webmaster, Ed Vinyard is due over for dinner and a website tutorial. Our changes are coming fast now, website traffic has never been better. I hope you like what you see.
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hope you like the changes
By glenn on1/26/2009
Instead of going out kite flying, we worked on this website all day. Or, should I say, Sarah worked on our website while I listened to music and read. Much is changing here. First, our new address will be mglennpickard.com. Since rifleart is one facet of my creative nature, we were looking for a website title to gather all forms under. No worries, if you are bookmarked, you will still find me from all other website addresses.

Eventually, I would like to show you mobiles past, and to be. I have been building mobiles for about 27 years. There are two new generations yet to be built on my current three generations of Solar System series. I have a bit of back stock on my Desktop Mobile series to show also.

Once I start scanning slides, there are many photographs to show. Candid photography is my absolute passion, and I so look forward to playing with a pro digital body to compliment my bag of lenses.

We will start the process of seal ...
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A Productive Week
By glenn on1/23/2009
We were able to make three paintings this week, one each working week day for me. Weekend days on the range are impossible to even consider doing a rifleart painting. Sarah has started working at posting last weeks production, let's cross our fingers and hope she can get this website thing figured out. Our wishes are to make the gap between production and posting as small as possible. After painting, we take it home to apply the chop, back to the range for sealing and photographing. At the best, we may be able to cut the gap to one day.

Having this spell of no rain has been a real blessing for our new multi-brushstroke production. Currently, we have six new paintings to show you. Three are photographed and ready to show you. I am out of canvas varnish at the moment, so, next week, I will start on sealing and photographing this weeks production.

Thanks for your interest in our Rifleart project, and if you are in the area, get in touch for a viewing of cur ...
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