Fifty Pound
23 October 2025
Acrylic on canvas
46 x 32 inches (116.8 x 81.3 cm)
There were a few things contributing to this piece. I picked up a very fancy, and very heavy frame which had been sitting around since July-August. I also bought a painting which I called Blue Blob with the intention of repurposing the canvas. Thirdly, a friend of mine sent pics of a painting they'd recently purchased which had a fantastic sunset. Finally, I was approaching a deadline for a gallery's call-for-art which I wanted to use this as an entry. This project gave me more practice at re-framing and re-stretching canvas, but I also used it as an exercise in fighting the urge to over-control an over-fret details. I'm pretty happy with the result. My biggest complaint is the weight of the frame...I expect I'll end up making another frame. I went with "Fifty Pound" because of the frame's mass but also because the sky has some good boldness to it.
The original painting is above left. The canvas sat disassembled and rolled up for about a month and a half. I was working on other things and didn't have a vision yet. Once I had the plan, resized t he frame, trimmed out a hole, and re-stretched the canvas, I painted on and off for three days.
This is the frame. I sell frames as optional, but I was pleasantly surprised with the match.
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