Here, in an animated way, are some of the recent postings on First Inning Artworks.
The animation comes from Animoto, a site that allows you to upload images and music, and the site will put together a short video for you, such as the one above. Anything more than 30 seconds or so costs $3, but you can buy a subscription that lets you do unlimited numbers.
The process is very easy and takes only a few minutes.
The music for this video is from Frank Story, my brother-in-law and an excellent guitarist.
The “See Ruby Falls” barns are rightly famous because there were so many of them, and so many — even though faded — can still be seen. But take a drive through just about any rural area of America where 50-year-old farming structures are still standing, and you’ll find that barns pitched more than tourist attractions. A farmer could get a good paint job for the barn by agreeing to tout a product. For the advertiser, it was cheap. A little paint and a few hours of a painter’s time, and the advertiser could have a large billboard that would last a lifetime. You don’t see these too much any more, and the landscape is less interesting without them.
Mail Pouch barn
Price: $75
11 x 14, pen and ink and colored pencil, on Bristol board
From the sea (previous post below) and back to terra firma. This watercolor uses only two colors: raw sienna and ultramarine blue. It was done as an exercise for a watercolor class I took last fall. I was very familiar with the subject. It’s the barn on the small farm where my wife grew up and where we spend a lot of our time, especially in the summer. I was trying to capture an extremely sunlight side of the barn and contrast it with some of the other things going on around it.
The side of a barn
Price: $75
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This was an experiment that I tried several years ago, and it came out satisfactorily. The point was to show a lot of action and movement and do so with a minimum of different colors. This is for the person who loves the sea (or paintings of the sea), and it’s priced at a bargain rate.
Bidgood Hall is a quiet giant of a building on the west side of the Quad at the University of Alabama. It is part of the business college complex and at any time of the day when the University is in session, it is covered with students. Rarely does it have a peaceful moment, as depicted in this pen and ink drawing.
This minimalist pen and ink drawing attempts to capture the building’s calm strength.
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